recomend some good blues exercises for soloing?

[dassy]

can you recommend some good blues exercises to make my soling better, im into bluesy pink floydy solos,any kinda bridges or certain techniques are also welcome,

any sites you can recommend for me?

 

[Lorddiagram]

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spend the time you might spend posting asking questions with your hands on your guitar. Learn the pentatonic scale up and down and all the hell around. Put your hands on your guitar....... Do you watch Tv??? Well and idle time just put the durn thing in your hands. Play with yourself.... Even if you don't like blues the leassons you learn in blues will take you everywhere.

lD

 

[JR#97]

can you recommend some good blues exercises to make my soling better, im into bluesy pink floydy solos,any kinda bridges or certain techniques are also welcome,

any sites you can recommend for me?

Well, I think you can learn more from recordings than websites. If you're not into old school blues, but just bluesy type stuff it wouldn't hurt to learn some actual blues tunes. Then apply what you learn ad nauseum to your rock bluesy floyd stuff. For me, it was getting transcriptions of Stevie Ray Vaughn and learning all of the tunes on Texas Flood.

 

[jimistone]

get any albert king cd or tape and learn his solos.....listen to blues exclusively. see if you have a feel for the blues.
either you have a feel for the blues or you don't....and if you don't , no amount of technical proficiancy will make you a blues musician. its all string bending and feeling.

 

[dassy]

yeah, the guitar is basically fused to my hands, i never put it down, the only reason i have time to post questions is cuz im at work,but i want to expand my horizons, i can improv out bluesy riffs, thats why i wanna master it and hone it. well maybe not master it, but get it down were im satisfied with it.

is there a site were i can learn blues scales and so on and other
solo excersises?

thanx again guys for your help

 

[Fantastic_Mad]

Probably the best thing to do for soloing excersizes, in my experience, is to learn solos from your favorite blues musicians. If you want to build strength and speed in your hands, find a solo with speed that you're sure you can't play, learn it note for note, and spend time playing it as fast as you can until your hands get up to speed. Also, just practicing running up and down scales using alternate picking as fast as you can develops a lot of speed and strength.

 

[hixmix]

The blues ain't about no exercises. It's all about life. If you can hang in there long enough to witness the passing of your parents and some your best friends, then you're ready to start playin' the blues.

 

[64Firebird]

Playing the Blues is not about the scale, it's about the intervals. All 12 notes are good as long as you put them in the right place and you know how to resolve them back to the chord you're playing over.

I like to focus on the chord tones that are not in the scale. These notes stand out and really let you hear the changes.

Example:
Play this over the I chord (in this case A7) in the first bar.

E---------------------5---------------------
B------------------5----8-5----------------
G------------5-7-------------7-6-----------
D-------5-7---------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------

The last note is the 3rd of the A7 chord. You may think it sounds strange without the harmony to back you up, but you'll get used to it.

Over the IV chord (D7) in the second bar, you can play almost the same lick. Just change the lasts note. This note is the miner 3rd on the I chord, but it's also the flat 7th of the IV chord.

E---------------------5---------------------
B------------------5----8-5----------------
G------------5-7-------------7-5-----------
D-------5-7---------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------

When you play these two licks you get that Major to miner sound that is so important to Blues music. But, don't stop here. Try adding other notes, like the 9th (2nd).

Good luck

 

[Chris Tondreau]

I don't know... soloing is really a nebulous concept that involves varying amounts of theory, skill, ear, creativity, and confidence - each in different amounts depending on the person and the situation.

The way I see it is this.... when you do a solo - regardless of what kind of music it is, or what instrument - you are creating a melody. Maybe you are improvising one, or maybe you are carefully crafting one - doesn't matter.

Considering that, you should know your basic pentatonic minor (typical blues scale), and maybe even fiddle with the dorian mode for a bit of flavour (dorian = 1, 2, b3, 4, 5, 6, b7, 1, or C, D, Eb, F, G, A, Bb, C in the key of C) for flavour. Remember... you're creating a melody! These scales will provide you with the blues "flavour" if you will - the b3 and the b7. From there, you need to look at how to express those flavours.... consider the tone you're using (Kirk Hammet could play the blues on his rig and it wouldn't sound half as bluesy as SRV playing the same notes in the same way on his rig...), consider also string bends, vibrato, etc. (listen to BB King for expression and knowing when NOT to play!!)

Try making up a melody using your scales that you like. THEN try playing the same melody, only bending notes instead of re-fretting them!! (ex. instead of playing C, Eb, F on the third string at frets 5, 8, and 10, try playing those same notes at frets 5, 8, and then bending 8 up so it SOUNDS like the same note played at 10!!!) Same melody... different expression. Also consider bending down.... instead of re-fretting C - Bb, try bending the Bb up a full tone BEFORE you play it so that it will come out sounding as a C, and then let the string relax down to the normal pitch of Bb. Same melody, different expression.

Finally... don't be afraid to harmonize your own notes. This can be challenging and requires a good knowledge of the fretboard, but playing a C and an Eb together will generally sound more "bluesy" than a C played by itself.... depending on a lot of variables in the context that you're trying this, of course...

Hope a few of those thoughts help somebody somewhat...

Chris

 

[hixmix]

Lorddiagram-

"...play with yourself".

Oh, really? Best advice yet!

hixmix