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Twisted Guitar: Blues Soloing

Creative & Harmonic Approaches for Modern Blues Soloing

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Twisted Guitar: Blues Soloing
Oz Noy

Oz Noy

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blues, rock, jazz rock

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About this course

Blues, jazz, and funk solos are usually improvised. Top players almost never play the same exact solo over a particular tune or groove. However, they might tap their own vocabulary of licks and use those licks in their improvised solos. Sometimes, they'll even build their solos around those licks. I'll show you how to do that in this course.

Oz Noy’s Twisted Guitar: Blues Soloing will demonstrate how to leverage your own vocabulary of licks and craft compelling solos and improvisations. You’ll be working with 10 blues backing tracks, over which Oz will improvise 2 solos for each of the tracks - 20 solos in total.

”All of the solos and licks include some of my "twisted" harmonic approaches. We'll work with a variety of tempos, keys and feels. The first solo will always include a few handpicked licks from my own vocabulary, and I'll intentionally build my solo around those licks. I'll also teach you those licks, note-for note - 30 licks in total! The second solo will also be improvised, but I will not build the solo around any particular licks. I'll let you pick out your own favorites and then learn them from the included tab and notation.”

Oz will guide you through all 20 soloing performance studies and 30 licks. Oz will perform each study for you over a backing track, and then breakdown the performance emphasizing the key principles in play. ”I'm going to show you some licks over both chords, as well as some lines to connect them together. After I go over some licks and lines for this track, I'll then show you a solo utilizing them. To wrap up, I'll perform a solo where I'm improvising completely.”

Oz will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way.  You’ll get standard notation, tabs and diagrams for the key examples and performance studies. Plus, Oz includes all of the rhythm tracks for you to work with on your own. In addition, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the performances so that you can work with the materials at your own pace.

Grab your guitar and lets get twisted with Oz Noy!

What you'll learn

  • Apply Mixolydian scale with chromatic embellishments over dominant 7 chords
  • Apply whole tone scale patterns that work across multiple dominant chords
  • Use shape-based improvisation independent of scale thinking
  • Create textural colors using chord extensions with slides
  • Execute bebop turnaround lines over 3-6-2-5-1 progressions
Release date: 04/20/2018 • 1h 43m runtime
intermediatelate intermediateadvancedguitarelectric guitarsoloingimprovisation
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Sample lessons
Ice Man
Ice Man
Overview
Lick 1
Lick 1
Ice Man: Demo
Lick 2
Lick 2
Ice Man: Demo
Lick 3
Lick 3
Ice Man: Demo

What's included

63 lessons • 51 charts • 34 Jam Tracks

Twisted Guitar: Blues Soloing
Hi, I'm Oz Noy. Welcome to Twisted Guitar: Blues Soloing.

Blues, jazz, and funk solos are usually improvised. Top players almost never play the same exact solo over a particular tune or groove. However, they might tap their own vocabulary of licks and use those licks in their improvised solos. Sometimes, they'll even build their solos around those licks. I'll show you how to do that in this course.

We'll be working with 10 blues backing tracks and I'll improvise 2 solos for each of the tracks - 20 solos in total! The first solo will always include a few handpicked licks from my own vocabulary, and I'll intentionally build my solo around those licks. I'll also teach you those licks, note-for note - 30 licks in total!

The second solo will also be improvised, but I will not build the solo around any particular licks. I'll let you pick out your own favorites and then learn them from the included tab and notation.

Of course, all of the solos and licks include some of my "twisted" harmonic approaches. We'll work with a variety of tempos, keys and feels. Along with each of the licks and solo performances, you'll get standard notation, tab, and all the backing tracks to work with on your own. You can also loop or slow down any of the performances so you can work with them at your own pace.

Grab your guitar, and let's get started!
Three of Four
For this set of lessons, I'm going to teach you a song called "Three of Four". It's kind of a "Manic Depression"-style Jimi Hendrix groove in 3/4, but with the chords being minor. Specifically, we'll be going from an Abminor7 to a Gbminor7.

I'm going to show you some licks over both chords, as well as some lines to connect them together. These are very important when you have a set of chords that are moving, as it makes them sounds much more natural.

After I go over some licks and lines for this track, I'll then show you a solo utilizing them. To wrap up, I'll perform a solo where I'm improvising completely. Let's get started.
Lick 1
This first lick is over the Gbminor7 chord. It's a basic minor pentatonic lick, but the cool thing about it is that the end of the lick is 5 over 4, repeating itself to create some really cool rhythmical tension. Let's take a look.
Lick 2
The second lick for "Three of Four" is over the Abminor7 chord. I'm going to use the Ab minor pentatonic scale, but I'm going to add in some tension notes for the bending. We'll take the 9th and the 6th and bend them into the flat 3rd and 7th, which creates some harmonic tension.
Lick 3
This next lick is over the Gbminor7 chord. This lick is more like a color over the chord - not using any specific scale. I'm basically just looking at the notes, using the 5 into the 7, the 9 into the 4, and the 6 into the 1. More of a textural thing. Let's check it out.
Lick 4
Our last lick for "Three of Four" is over the Abminor7 chord. The concept here is that I have a high line of notes that's descending down, which I'm embellishing with bends over the pentatonic.
Solo with Licks
Now let's look at some of our licks in action. This solo for "Three of Four" will show you how to use them in a real time soloing scenario. Try to pick out each one and see how they work in the big picture.

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brosblues

Verified buyer

09/23/25

A useful pair of courses

I recently bought Oz Noy's course pair: Twisted Guitar: Blues Rhythm and Twisted Guitar: Blues Soloing in which Oz details his approaches to playing rhythm and lead guitar on ten performance studies. These paired studies will definitely improve my blues guitar chops. Thanks, Oz!

Mareczek

Verified buyer

08/25/25

Excelent!

For me, the most important thing is that the materiał is good and that I feel what the autor want me to feel. With Oz Noy everything is perfect

dallaire

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06/16/23

The great musical knowledge of Oz Noy.

Impressive overall quality. The highest level of musicianship. Lots of great and innovative concepts and examples to work with.

chrisnorrie

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12/01/22

Excellent course

A very talented player and teacher - lots to learn from this wonderful musician!

Uschmed

Verified buyer

06/20/22

Twisted Guitar: Blues Soloing

Oz Noy is a highly accomplished player with a unique, idiosyncratic style. Very interesting course with valuable material. A lot to work on. Definitely recommended!

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