Blues Minor scale- the secret revealed    by Nitin Patidar

in Shopping / Electronics    (submitted 2011-12-13)

Blues minor scale is derived from pentatonic minor scale, which is also known as Rock scale. However, the difference between rock scale and blues minor is that in case of this note you will find an added note, which makes a huge difference in sounding between rock notes and blues minor. In minor blues it is the D# note that creates the difference in sounding. As the name suggests the blue scales really sounds bluesy. If you try the notes, you can improvise your performance while playing different notes on same scale. The notes add more bends and thrills to your music session and you can practice several pausing and phrasing while playing blue solos.

How to play the exercises:

In order to learn the Blues Minor scale properly it is important to practice the exercises properly. There are several techniques of learning the exercises. You can play the exercises using alternative picking and be sure to pay attention to the numbers lying under the tab. The number indicates what finger you should use. Don't stop after paying the exercises once; try it for a few times. While practicing the exercises you will notice several facts. After a few sessions, you will notice that the exercises include a music pattern. There are a few guitarists who name this as a sequential pattern. When you take a melodic design and pass it through a scale in a methodical way it becomes a music pattern. While practicing the exercises don't get panicked if you are not being able to create the desired melodic pattern. At the beginning, you practice the exercises to learn the techniques and after a few sessions, you can create tunes on your own automatically.

How to learn solo scales:

If you are true guitarist and want to improve your capability of delivering best solo music you must try this easy and simple way of learning Blues Minor scales, especially solo scales. While practicing the lesions you will feel that whatever you are playing you have played previous to, but this self criticism will help you to learn the best solo music. In order to learn solo music you must expose yourself to different sounding scale. While playing the different scales you will be able to judge your status and find out the drawback that needs development to improve your solo music status.

Other facts regarding solo:

If you want to learn the solo Blues Minor Scales, you must have a clear idea about the notes, which you can play easily. In case of blues these notes are called scale. The scales must fit properly to the chords and songs. However, it is not that all the notes will give you the desired sound while playing a single song.

If you search online you will find several e-books, which provide exercises on blues music. If you want to learn from these books, it is always the best to opt for the one which provide general and basic information regarding the blues music.

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The minor blues scale is a variation of the minor pentatonic scale. click here to know more about Blues Minor Scale .