Blues Headlines
Richard Barrett is on a mission to make you a better blues player – with full audio examples and backing tracks
Blues Jam
Tutor: Richard Barrett | Gear used: Knaggs Choptank, Vox AC15 C1
Difficulty ★★★★☆ | 15 mins per example
THERE ARE VARIOUS ways we can view the patterns, scales and chords that live in the various locations of the fretboard – and the permutations are infinite. I guess that’s one of the things that keeps us all motivated to improve year after year! For this Headlines, I’ve taken a static one-note ‘jam’ in which the harmonic and melodic content is provided solely by the guitar over a repetitive bass and drum pattern. The D minor pentatonic/ blues scale will work well, but that’s only one possibility, and one which may not hold your (or any listener’s) interest indefinitely. Let’s do lots of soloing by all means, but in the context of an interactive ‘team-player’ approach.