![]() Jarek is right to say that you do need to learn the vocabulary of phrases and their rhythms to sound "authentic" but its good to start by sounding musically literate first. ![]() It was this article that demystified it all for me. This guide (admittedly for bass guitar) shows you which elements of each chord to use heavily and which to leave alone, or to use sparingly. However I never knew a way to pick which notes would sound good. You need to know the chord progression and so which chords come along in which sequence. There are lots of variations on the blues chord progression too. I struggled with this, and "use your ears" isn't always the right answer if you're not Eric Clapton and unblessed with prodigious natural talent, rather just a willingness to learn. It will get you much further at this stage than studying the scales. And if you're not sure if something sounds right or not, devote lots of time to training your ear, active listening, copying from recordings. But to sum it up: don't "use" scales - they're not for using, they just are. ![]() Sometimes they won't as the blues scale is not the only scale that works well in blues. Then as an afterthought you might think about how they fit into blues scale. The best way to start playing the blues is simply by learning and copying existing vocabulary of phrases, licks ect. But these notes are more like a letters of blues alphabet and blues is a language that, as all languages, starts from words. Blues scale is only a selection of notes that fit well to basic blues chord progression and work well more or less throughout the whole progression. Now, how to make a blues scale sound like a blues is another thing. If you need a sanity check play the lowest A note on your guitar (open 5th string or 5th fret on low E string) and it should be the same note, the bass guitar plays at the beginning of the track. ![]() Just make sure your guitar is tuned well (use tuner). ![]()
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