How to Play a Blues Scale for Electric Guitar Solos

Video Transcript

"I’m a professional guitar instructor and today I’ll be going over some of the basic rudiments of playing the lead guitar or soloing. Okay next thing that I’d like to discuss the blues scale close relative to the pentatonic scale. The blues scale is created by adding a sixth note to the five note pentatonic scale that sixth note is drive from the flatted fifth note of the parallel major scale, so for example if I was to play an A-major scale a one octave A-major scale, stop on the fifth note, one, two, three, four, five and flat that note. That note and its octave when added to the pentatonic scale the minor pentatonic scale create a new scale, a six note scale which we commonly refer to as the blues scale. First I’ll play for you the minor pentatonic…here’s the minor blues scale…and don’t let the name blues scale mislead you, the blues scale is used in a soloing a lot of different styles of music heavy metal, thrash metal, country guitar, bluegrass, you name it just about any style of music you can imagine will utilize the blues scale. Like I said it’s pretty much just a nice way of blending together some of your notes in the pentatonic scale for example here’s a nice little blues scale run in A-minor…"