Believe it or not, those great blues licks you hear, whether it be Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Robert King, Johnny Lang or whoever else turns your blues crank, are derived from the standard blues scale. I was playing blues for quite a while before I found out that there is a method to figuring out the notes you're going for. Most of my guitar education was gathered from lifting solos from records and from performing live. Not to mention the countless lonely days and nights in my parent's basement as I played the licks I knew over and over until I could play them in any situation (physical or mental!). Here's your standard blues scale in the key of A, starting from the low E string (the …
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