Looking to spice up your blues guitar licks with open-string flavor? This lesson will guide you through transforming simple pentatonic ideas into professional-sounding blues licks.

These techniques not only enhance your blues guitar playing but also improve your understanding of guitar scales.

I'll break down each lick step by step, showing you the techniques needed to pull them off effectively.

These licks add fresh character and flair to your playing and can be used with a backing track, at a jam session, or during solo practice. The possibilities are endless!

If you're a guitarist, you already know that one of the best scales ever is the pentatonic scale. It forms the bedrock of guitar solos, often being the first and last option in any scenario. However, you're also aware that it can become stale quite quickly.

What happens is, if you don’t develop a deeper understanding of what you can do starting with the pentatonic scale, your solos can become very monotonous and repetitive.

In this lesson, you will learn how to break free from boredom by making a few adjustments to the most famous of all pentatonic shapes. Get ready to never get bored while soloing again.

One of my earliest solo lessons as a young guitarist involved learning how to solo over the Blues using the Blues scale. This lesson stands as one of the most pivotal and impactful experiences for me, altering my musical journey indefinitely. Even now, I rely on that scale every time I pick up the guitar.

In this lesson, you'll discover how to enhance your Blues scale and take it to a more advanced level. By simply adding two notes to your repertoire, you'll break away slightly from the traditional blues approach in your playing.

This modification will unlock a myriad of new possibilities for creating solos, significantly enhancing your musical expression and taking your skills to the next level.

This is going to be THE BEST Blues Solo Lesson EVER! You will break free from the RUT and elevate your jamming experience! Blues Guitar is amazing!

Everybody knows how cool it is to be able to solo over the Blues. We can spend hours just jamming over it with the Pentatonic scale and have a great time. But let me ask you: How long does it take until you feel stuck, with no fresh ideas, repeating the same licks again and again?

Let me take you on a deep dive into the endless possibilities of what we can do if we add a few little things to your playing. The result? Instant fresh ideas, new flavours, and restored inspiration.

Get ready to learn new skills that will be a part of your jamming forever!

Even though we’ll use the same Pentatonic scale to create our solos, the minor blues sound very different from the major one. It has a much darker sound, it’s moody and serious, but at the same time it’s beautiful and very powerful.

In this lesson you’ll learn a few of the best ways to start soloing over the minor blues using the pentatonic plus adding a few notes to it to have amazing results.

“I feel stuck when soloing…”

“My solos are boring and always sound the same…”

“I feel like I always sound the same and and I see I’m playing the same licks over and over…”

Who never said those things before, right? We all have been there.

In this lesson I’ll teach you how with only five simple steps you can completely change the way you solo over the blues. It’s simple, it’s easy to grasp and to apply. I am 100% sure that you can still play with these ideas today!

Grab your guitar and have fun!

Every good real lead guitarist has a few tricks up their sleeves. A few signature licks, a scale run, maybe a particular technique or even some very special group of notes that they use very strategically.

These tricks up the sleeves are usually to be used in between phrasing and to change the mood and give different dynamics in the solo.

In this lesson you’ll learn two specific notes I’ve been using for decades to completely change the mood of my phrasing. Not only have I been using it on my solos, but also to create variations and new musical ideas. The theory behind can be very sophisticated, the application of it, however, super simple and approachable. Completely change the mood of your solo. Unstuck your soloing over blues!

Grab your guitar and have fun!

Every good real lead guitarist has an arsenal of amazing licks. It’s part of their tool in the toolbox to have as many great guitar licks as possible. That way you will always have something to say when soloing.

Better than having great licks is learning how to use licks to create more musical ideas and that way compose a rich solo or improv session with coherence.

This lesson you’ll learn an amazing blues lick that I’ve been using for decades. Not only have I been using it on my solos, but also to create variations and new musical ideas.

Grab your guitar and have fun!

In this video you will learn 5 simple steps that will transform your soloing over the blues FOR GOOD!

We all got stuck when soloing before. You run out of ideas and start to repeat the same lick or pattern you feel safe, but there's nothing else you can add to the solo.

The five steps I'm teaching in this lesson will solve the "writer's block" you might be facing. If you know all the options you have, and you apply them strategically, you'll never run out of ideas again.

In this video I will teach you how to play rhythm guitar in a very fun and challenging way again. The truth is that as rhythm guitarists we don't need to be the driving force, instead, we need to learn how to fit our playing in the midst of all the other instruments to cut through the mix and add to the full.

This is a very simple and basic lesson. However, if you don't get this one right, all the other lessons will be messy and maybe even irrelevant.

The Basic Blues Series is a series where you will learn the very basics of blues. From the structure of the chords and the rhythm, all the way of how to solo and improv on basic but very effective ways. If studied and practiced with seriousness, you will be able to play blues guitar better than 90% of the people out there. You'll be able to jump at any blues session as either the rhythm or lead guitarist.