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Jazzy Blues Lead Guitar Lesson in a Minor Key – EP308

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play (and improvise) a blues lead (with a little jazz flavor) over a minor key jam track. You’ll be playing the chord changes over the verse, alternating between a minor and a major chord.

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  8. Gary W says

    Awesome.
    Just love your slow Jazzy, out of the box stuff.

    Already one of my favourites ..and I haven’t picked up my guitar yet!
    Diolch, thank you.

    Greetings from Gary, Wales UK

  14. James G says

    Love this lesson Brian! and the guitar!
    Light bulbs are going off and my playing is improving….I may need an Es 175 Gibson. Always trying to get the tone from the master!

  22. Frederic D says

    Hi everyone ! What a great lesson !! Here is a sample from a french rapper which is very similar to the backing track. Actually the first to octaves are exactly the sames than the ones of this lesson, then I think Em is played (which is not very far from G7 because Em is the relative minor of G). Anyway you can play the Dm scale all along as well. I though it could be a good stuff for those who want to try the take -aways of this lesson in another context.

    Greetings from France.

    Here is the link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAmEXDD8c0U

  33. timothy9 says

    I love the wide range of ideas that you bring to these lessons Brian. The opening is flat out gorgeous. I just got a chorus pedal and that opening is going to sound gorgeous.
    Thank you as always.

  34. Philip B says

    Hey Brian,

    You do so many good things hyere. This one is totally in my wheelhouse. But actually in yours also really. My favorite one before this was EP04 so maybe you understand. That was way back. Anyway, you always produce and produce great stuff so for what it’s worth more of this kinda thing is really, really cool but watever you come out with I’m onmboard. Love it !

  37. bob e says

    Hi Brian

    Another fantastic piece to learn. I’m doing my best to try and learn to read standard notation and just wondered would it be possible for you to add the key signatures where you write out the notation.

    Fantastic as always

    Cheers

    Bob

  41. Tom D says

    Hi Brian,

    This is another great number. I had to revise a little theory to rediscover that D natural minor is the F major scale. i.e. The relative minor scale of F major is D minor. I might end up a good guitarist one of these days. I’ve been practicing for 60 years.

  42. Rich F says

    An immense lesson, Brian! Beautiful! Listening to this over breakfast on a Sunny warm UK morning. It has a perfect jazzy ambience!

    Always a lot of take-always from your lessons. The octaves part is fantastic!

    Thanks again!

    Rich F

  43. Mike H says

    This song is totally doing my head in 🙂 I can get all the notes under my fingers but the timing is a total mission. I’ve been running my looper trying to get even the first section down. So far…well, let’s just say I’m making slow progress 🙂 But I love the thing so I’m going to crack it.

  45. freddie h says

    One of my favorites for sure. I realize you can’t make everyone happy but, you could do nothing but this style and I would be happy. So many tasty licks in this lesson. Keep the jazzy blues coming.

  50. David G says

    This is a great arrangement and the one that made me go Premium. I was having trouble with the higher octaves played on the 4 and 2 strings (getting my index/pinky combination to keep the wider shape), so I’m playing the octaves on the 5 and 3 strings with my index and ring fingers and it’s much easier to keep the span from collapsing on the slide up. That’s probably not possible on a 12-fret guitar, but it’s fine with anything with 14+ frets clear of the body.

  51. Aloyse P says

    I just discovered this lesson and from the first few notes I was addicted to the sound and melody. I played for years in different bands in my country (Rock and Blues) but I always loved this jazzy styles. I even tried to play Jazz but honestly I’m not enough gifted to master Jazz-Guitar so I hope to find the secrets of Jazz and the way to play Jazz-Guitar on Active Melody.
    Please Please Please do more of this stuff!!!!

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