hi i have been playing guitar for a while now and am starting to get into blues. now i know the notes in the mid-box and the high box but would love someone whoe either has a simple site which isnt to hard to use or just some off hand knowledge on some of the notes in the blues scale.

p.s it will be much easier for me to under stand if you use fret numbers instead of note names as im not quite fluent and it will just require a bit more effort

thank you

http://justinguitar.com/index.php seemed like it was a pretty good resource. Spend a bit of time looking at the blues material, and I'm sure you'll realize the "box" analogy is a very limiting way of being taught

put effort into learning your notes.

notes of the A blues scale-A - C - D - Eb - E - G - A

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Hi taylor832: this will give you exactly what you need:

http://www.mearstech.com/ModeMaster_com/default.htm

Cheers - C

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It's nice to use the full minor scale rather than the pentatonic


There are tons of youtube instructional videos from beginner though expert. I agree with Justin Sandercoe's site but there are more that give you short tips of riffs within the scale.

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I've never read or watched any vids on how to play the Blues... Blues is not a science to me, you can't put it down on paper IMO. If you like the Blues then listen to all the greats and play along, that is the best way to learn. Maybe I'm old school, but I didn't have any Internet to look up all this stuff when I started playing... I couldn't tell you what box or what note I'm playing, I just play it. A little Albert, little BB, little T-Bone, etc... you can mix major/minor/pentatonic or whatever you wanna call it, if you know where those notes sound right there are no exceptions.

So my advice is, listen to as many Blues songs and practice practice practice

+1,000 The Blues can't really be learned from books. The blues is a lot deeper than Blues scales. Listening to others is the best way to learn.

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I've played blues for over 30 year,and it's going to be a lifelong education.
Sometimes I feel like I'm just begining to understand it.

yeah dont practice with any kind of direction so that you will know
what your playing exactly. this way you will only be 1/2 as good as you could be
when playing. and whatever you do, dont learn to read and write music
because you probably wont ever find yourself in a situation where you will need it.
oh and stay out of the mag's and websites and avoid any conversation with a touring pro,
you might stumble upon where they tell you how important it is these days that you
can understand at least basic music theory, and can communicate with other musicians.
now if your happy with playing in your bedroom or out at the bar on the weekends, sure
you might not need any of it, but if you have higher goals set for yourself, then learn basic theory at the very least, and practice reading and writing music.

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I remember when I was still learning, I would try to learn the solo of my favorite Blues greats note for note... something like this, good example of mixing notes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45f28PzfCI

Over the years these solos or licks stayed with me and I still to this day reach in and borrow some of these licks when playing, it should come natural if you're into this kind of music... the same song will never sound the same when I'm up on stage, really depends on what the rest of the band is doing at the time, and how I'm feeling... and every nite you play something different and it sounds good and you realize you'e always learning how to play da blues!

Absolutely.............

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Regardless, it is all note's, wether it is a minor scale or a major scale, there is a possibility of 72 fretted notes, whichever way you decide to arrange them falls into a certain category.

I say study your major and minor scales, understand how they relate to one another or how to combine one or more for a musical statement. Curiously enough the progressions used in Classical, Jazz, Rock, R/B, Celtic....and so on are all notes that can be plucked, fingered, strummed on your fretboard. A Paganini passage thrown into the middle of a Blues tune throws in a different perspective.
If you listen to Frank Zappa, you will hear nuances from the Blues yet, there will be jazz fusion
passage followed by a classical passage.

Dismissing theory and/or knowing the notes, being able to read music, is akin to telling someone that you do not need to know grammar in order to create coherent sentences....
It pays in the long run to be able to understand and play various forms of music.
That is a true definition of a musician.

I also did not have the internet when I started playing, but it certainly did not prevent me from studying Carruli's method or Carcassi or Bach.

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Carcassi or Bach ain't Blues...

I bet you most of the Blues greats that everyone tries to copy can't read or write, and I'm not just talking about music...

There's a DVD of Albert Collins with Keith Wyatt I believe, they go over his playing style, tuning, influences... if you ever get the chance to watch it you'll understand what I'm talking about. AC knows absolutely nothing about the technicality behind his playing or what a vibrato is or whatever technical question Keith was asking, yet he is one of my favorite Blues guitar players.

thanks for all the replies. im sorry i dont think i phrased it the right way in my first post. i am not trying to be ignorant or trying to dismiss music theory i am actually avidly learning about notes and scales through lessons and other pursuits. its just that i am trying to find and easier to understand simple guide to all the notes in the blues scale and how to move it around the fret board to impose it on what i am learning. i can locate all notes on the fret board and i know the basics of some scales im just looking to help expand my knowledge of the blues scale and the higher and lower extensions of it in the simplest guide i can.

thank you