Free ebook · 17 pages · PDF
Learn the blues scales that every great solo is built on.
Most of us learn one box and get stuck in it. This free 17-page ebook shows you every shape of the minor pentatonic and blues scales, with the fingers and fret numbers drawn in, and how to link them so you can play the whole neck.
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Page 2: the basic box, with the fingers, the notes and the intervals 
Page 9: all five blues scale boxes, with the blue note in each 
Page 16: the blues scale over the entire neck, as one connected map
What you will learn in this free ebook
- The minor pentatonic basic box: the fingers, the notes and the three rootspage 2
- Nine string bends to practice in the basic boxpage 3
- Expanded I and Expanded II: the shapes that take you up and down the neckpages 4–5
- All five box shapes, and how they join into one big scalepage 6
- The blue note, and how it turns the pentatonic into the blues scalepages 7–9
- Five ways to spice up the blues scale, from slides to the 9thpage 10
- The major pentatonic and the sus4 scale, for a sweeter sound over major chordspages 11–13
- Ten practice hints, a whole-neck map and a ten-minute practice planpages 14–17
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. It costs nothing and there is no card to enter. It is yours to keep: read it on screen, save it or print it.
Do I need to read music?
No. Every scale is drawn as a fretboard diagram, with the fret numbers and the root notes marked and the fingers to use.
Is it for acoustic or electric?
Both. The shapes and the fingerings are the same on any guitar.
What if I only know a few chords?
That is a fine place to start. The book begins with the one box everybody learns first and builds from there, one shape at a time.
Free Blues Scales ebook
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