Guitar Player Magazine, Session Column featuring: Composite Blues by Jean-Marc Belkadi. The next time you're looking for a way to juice up your blues lines, try this... Full article click here |
is to show the guitarist how to improvise and compose with the composite blues scale over the dominant, major, minor 7th and Minor 7th b5 chords. This is a necessary book to improve the chromaticism and Blues vocabulary by understanding the connection between the chromaticism and the blues scale in different music styles: Jazz, Rock, Funk, Fusion, Pop and Latin. |
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The concept of The Composite Blues Scale for Electric Guitar |
The Composite Blues Scale for Electric Guitar |
This example over E dominant uses E minor pentatonic with the natural 6th and the major 3rd. These notes belong to the E composite blues scale. Notice the double-stop bend and the sweeping technique (v). Try slowly first to get the phrasing rght. |