Blues Scale Workout

Hey everyone! Here’s the next episode of Scales & Tales with a challenging Blues Scale Workout. As much as I enjoy working on actual songs as a musician/educator, I’ve also found a lot of benefit in working on various technique-boosting exercises, warmups, and workouts along the way. These include scale, chord, and arpeggio-based ideas from various sources, and this lesson tackles a series of ideas surrounding the ever-popular minor blues scale - a mutation of the common minor pentatonic scale. This episode begins with a simple two-bar melodic motif centered around this familiar scale tonality, and from there we’re creating an assortment of variations and relocations of the phrase all over the fretboard. This includes incorporating the use of open strings, fretboard shifting, sliding, stretching, and much more. As you’ll see, the basic motif we started with is transformed into eight additional exercises right before your eyes, while maintaining the same pitch and key. Fro