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Creative Blues Soloing
Creative Approaches and Key Techniques for Blues Improvisation
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About this course
Creative Blues Soloing is a TrueFire-curated collection of interactive video lessons produced and presented by Tim Pierce from his own studio. In this course, Tim demonstrates a variety of creative approaches for blues solos and improvisation to help advance your sense of taste, timing, and tone.
If you’re tuned into Tim Pierce on his YouTube channel, subscribed to his online Masterclass, or just plain blown away by his guitar work on the thousands of recordings to his credit — you already know that Tim is one of the most passionate educators and accomplished guitarists on the planet.
We’re thrilled to welcome Tim to the family with a trio of TrueFire-curated interactive video courses; Creative Blues Soloing, Blues Inspirations, and Rock & Blues Licks for Soloing.
”We all start with the blues. Simple and powerful. But then it's so important to push the envelope and bring our blues playing into other genres and create new colors. Honestly, I've dedicated my life to this simple pursuit and I'm just scratching the surface. My advice is… don’t overthink it, just enjoy the process.
I've organized Creative Blues Soloing into six sections, each one focusing on a particular approach. We'll work on mixing minor and major pentatonic scales, developing strong phrases, blues rock soloing, how to make your blues solos more conversational, and in the final section, we’ll dive into a series of modern blues rhythm and soloing approaches.
This course is a collaboration with my friends at TrueFire, who help me package this set of lessons from the TPG Masterclass as a downloadable course with a variety of learning tools for working with the video lessons, tab and notation.
You'll be able to download the course to any mobile or desktop device and work with it anytime, on any device, online or offline. You'll have ready access to looping and slow-motion tools, video sync tab and notation, animated fretboard views, Guitar Pro files, backing tracks and more!
I want to thank TrueFire, of which I was a paying member before I met the people behind, who bring us all this great guitar instruction. If you want to learn more guitar from me, check out my online masterclass!”
Tim will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s get creative with Tim Pierce!
If you’re tuned into Tim Pierce on his YouTube channel, subscribed to his online Masterclass, or just plain blown away by his guitar work on the thousands of recordings to his credit — you already know that Tim is one of the most passionate educators and accomplished guitarists on the planet.
We’re thrilled to welcome Tim to the family with a trio of TrueFire-curated interactive video courses; Creative Blues Soloing, Blues Inspirations, and Rock & Blues Licks for Soloing.
”We all start with the blues. Simple and powerful. But then it's so important to push the envelope and bring our blues playing into other genres and create new colors. Honestly, I've dedicated my life to this simple pursuit and I'm just scratching the surface. My advice is… don’t overthink it, just enjoy the process.
I've organized Creative Blues Soloing into six sections, each one focusing on a particular approach. We'll work on mixing minor and major pentatonic scales, developing strong phrases, blues rock soloing, how to make your blues solos more conversational, and in the final section, we’ll dive into a series of modern blues rhythm and soloing approaches.
This course is a collaboration with my friends at TrueFire, who help me package this set of lessons from the TPG Masterclass as a downloadable course with a variety of learning tools for working with the video lessons, tab and notation.
You'll be able to download the course to any mobile or desktop device and work with it anytime, on any device, online or offline. You'll have ready access to looping and slow-motion tools, video sync tab and notation, animated fretboard views, Guitar Pro files, backing tracks and more!
I want to thank TrueFire, of which I was a paying member before I met the people behind, who bring us all this great guitar instruction. If you want to learn more guitar from me, check out my online masterclass!”
Tim will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s get creative with Tim Pierce!
Tim Pierce's Preferred Gear
Below is a list of Tim Pierce's preferred gear including guitars, amps, pedals, accessories, and more. What you see in Tim's lessons may or may not be this actual gear, but if you are trying to capture Tim's sound and tone, the gear listed below is recommended by Tim and it's a great place to start!
Guitars
Amps
- Marshall ORI50H Origin 50-watt Tube Head
- Vox AC30CH 30-watt Tube Head
- Fender Bassman 800HD 800-watt Hybrid Bass Head
Pedals
- Xotic Super Sweet Booster Mini Boost Pedal
- Boss GE-7 7-band EQ Pedal
- MXR M300 Digital Reverb Pedal
- Dunlop DVP3 Volume (X) Volume and Expression Pedal
Accessories & More
What you'll learn
- Execute a complete blues turnaround solo with position shifts from frets 5-14
- Execute a blues solo phrase starting from the 17th fret position
- Apply multi-finger bending technique for strength and even vibrato
- Use palm muting to add texture and 'toughness' to phrases
- Learn to intentionally leave space throughout a solo rather than constant playing
Release date: 12/05/2020 • 3h 41m runtime
Sample lessons
Minor Major Solo
Performance
Minor Major Solo
In-Depth Slowdown
Developing Strong Phrases
Overview
Developing Strong Phrases
Performance
What's included
39 lessons • 14 charts • 6 Jam Tracks
Creative Blues Soloing
Hi, I'm Tim Pierce and welcome to Creative Blues Soloing. In this edition, we'll explore a variety of creative approaches for blues solos and improvisation, helping advance your sense of taste, timing, and tone. I've organized the course into six sections, each one on a particular approach.
We'll work on mixing minor and major pentatonic scales, developing strong phrases, blues rock soloing, how to make your blues solos more conversational, and we'll dive into a series of modern blues rhythm and soloing approaches.
We'll cap the course off by working on a modern blues solos, illustrating how to work on your feet. This course is a collaboration with my friends at TrueFire, who help me package this set of lessons from the TPG Masterclass as a downloadable course with a variety of learning tools for working with the video lessons, tab and notation. You'll be able to download the course to any mobile or desktop device and work with it anytime online or offline. You'll have ready access looping and slow-motion tools, video sync tab and notation, animated fretboard views, Guitar Pro files, backing tracks and more!
So grab your guitar, and let's go!
We'll work on mixing minor and major pentatonic scales, developing strong phrases, blues rock soloing, how to make your blues solos more conversational, and we'll dive into a series of modern blues rhythm and soloing approaches.
We'll cap the course off by working on a modern blues solos, illustrating how to work on your feet. This course is a collaboration with my friends at TrueFire, who help me package this set of lessons from the TPG Masterclass as a downloadable course with a variety of learning tools for working with the video lessons, tab and notation. You'll be able to download the course to any mobile or desktop device and work with it anytime online or offline. You'll have ready access looping and slow-motion tools, video sync tab and notation, animated fretboard views, Guitar Pro files, backing tracks and more!
So grab your guitar, and let's go!
Mixing Minor & Major Pentatonic
In blues, we often benefit from breaking the rules and mixing minor and major is a prime example of that. We're also going to look closely at the relationship between major and relative minor.
Minor Major Solo
To start things off, we have a solo that shows the elegance and simplicity of the relationship between major and relative minor.
Minor Major Solo
To start things off, we have a solo that shows the elegance and simplicity of the relationship between major and relative minor.
Minor Major Solo
To start things off, we have a solo that shows the elegance and simplicity of the relationship between major and relative minor.
Developing Strong Phrases
As guitar players, we need to play strong phrases and leave spaces - this creates a conversation,and a very musical call and response. Easier said than done, because as guitarists we tend to play wall-to-wall :)
Developing Strong Phrases
This is my favorite tone on the Strat: neck pick up, medium gain. Another benefit of leaving spaces...my left hand gets to rest between phrases.
+ 32 more lessons
Reviews
14 results
Quickrick66
Verified buyer
12/24/24
A top notch player and teacher. One of the very best.
he really takes the time to break down and explain each solo element. I have a teaching degree and this guy really takes a wonderful approach. Others are great players in the truefire stable, but Tim is also great at getting the elements across. He's the best.
firebellyk
07/07/21
Really Enjoyed this course
This is a great course for learning some solid blues and rock licks. I like how Mr. Pierce explains in detail how he links the licks and phrases together. The way the course is set up really helps you get these licks to sink in. I plan on getting more from this educator!
dp430
Verified buyer
05/24/21
A man who truly enjoys every single note he plays!
If like me you have been following Tim’s YouTube channel for a while, you will understand the power of combining Tim’s teaching with TrueFire’s learning tools! If you haven’t discovered Tim’s YouTube channel yet, then just search for his recording credentials and you’ll understand why being able to learn from him is such a privilege.
akave
Verified buyer
02/03/21
Great Teacher!!
Great as usual, after getting this made me want to go back and joking Tim’s instructional page again. Thanks for being such an easy to follow instructor. Allen
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