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Blues Soloing Handbook
Take Your Blues Solos to the Next Level
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About this course
Like any other language, the language of the blues relies on a player’s command of its vocabulary coupled with their ability to express themselves creatively with that vocabulary. Stringing blues licks together and running pentatonic scales up and down over the changes may get you up and running quickly but that’s only the first step of your learning journey as a blues guitarist.
Seth Rosenbloom’s Blues Soloing Handbook picks up from there and takes you much further down the path. Leveraging what you already know, you’ll work on expressive vibrato techniques, bending accurately and tastefully, interval applications, sequencing pentatonic based lines, dynamics, outlining chord tones, chordal punctuations, and many other approaches that you’ll be able to put to use in your blues solos right away.
”For me, playing the blues is all about expressing emotions. What’s always drawn me to the genre is the fact that it allows for an extraordinarily wide range of emotion. That, I think, is the key to making great music overall, and great blues in particular.”
In this course, I’ll present what I personally consider to be 10 of the most important techniques and creative approaches for blues soloing and improvisation. We’ll then apply each of these concepts in a series of blues soloing performance studies ranging across some of the most popular blues feels -- slow blues, uptown and mid-tempo shuffles, minor blues, rhumba feels, and other forms of the blues.”
A rapidly rising star on the blues scene, Seth earned a performance merit scholarship from Berklee College of Music by the time he was 16. After spending a few years as an active sideman and in demand clinician, he stepped into the spotlight with the release of his self-titled EP followed by a highly acclaimed, full-length project produced by Josh Smith. We’re thrilled to welcome Seth to the family with his first TrueFire course, Blues Soloing Handbook!
Seth guides you through 10 key approaches and techniques: Vibrato Technique, Bending Accuracy, Pentatonic & Ear Training, Call &, Response with Motifs, Outlining Chord Tones, Right Hand Dynamics & Control, BB King Style Lines, Albert King Style Lines, Pentatonic Sequencing, Chord Punctuations in Your Solos, and Tone & Gear Talk.
You’ll put everything into play over 7 soloing performance studies: Slow Blues in C#, Up Shuffle in Bb, Mid Shuffle in G, Crying Sky Slow Blues, Dynamic Minor Blues in B, King Size Rhumba in Ab, Laid Back Shuffle in F
Seth 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 also included to work with on your own.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with Seth Rosenbloom!
Seth Rosenbloom’s Blues Soloing Handbook picks up from there and takes you much further down the path. Leveraging what you already know, you’ll work on expressive vibrato techniques, bending accurately and tastefully, interval applications, sequencing pentatonic based lines, dynamics, outlining chord tones, chordal punctuations, and many other approaches that you’ll be able to put to use in your blues solos right away.
”For me, playing the blues is all about expressing emotions. What’s always drawn me to the genre is the fact that it allows for an extraordinarily wide range of emotion. That, I think, is the key to making great music overall, and great blues in particular.”
In this course, I’ll present what I personally consider to be 10 of the most important techniques and creative approaches for blues soloing and improvisation. We’ll then apply each of these concepts in a series of blues soloing performance studies ranging across some of the most popular blues feels -- slow blues, uptown and mid-tempo shuffles, minor blues, rhumba feels, and other forms of the blues.”
A rapidly rising star on the blues scene, Seth earned a performance merit scholarship from Berklee College of Music by the time he was 16. After spending a few years as an active sideman and in demand clinician, he stepped into the spotlight with the release of his self-titled EP followed by a highly acclaimed, full-length project produced by Josh Smith. We’re thrilled to welcome Seth to the family with his first TrueFire course, Blues Soloing Handbook!
Seth guides you through 10 key approaches and techniques: Vibrato Technique, Bending Accuracy, Pentatonic & Ear Training, Call &, Response with Motifs, Outlining Chord Tones, Right Hand Dynamics & Control, BB King Style Lines, Albert King Style Lines, Pentatonic Sequencing, Chord Punctuations in Your Solos, and Tone & Gear Talk.
You’ll put everything into play over 7 soloing performance studies: Slow Blues in C#, Up Shuffle in Bb, Mid Shuffle in G, Crying Sky Slow Blues, Dynamic Minor Blues in B, King Size Rhumba in Ab, Laid Back Shuffle in F
Seth 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 also included to work with on your own.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with Seth Rosenbloom!
What you'll learn
- Execute hybrid picking for two-note lines with contrasting articulation
- Create less predictable, more cascading pentatonic lines
- Use fingerstyle to create softer, more delicate passages
- Control dynamic range by switching between pick and fingers
- Build solo intensity by coordinating right-hand attack with vibrato intensity
Release date: 08/19/2021 • 3h 23m runtime
Sample lessons
Up Shuffle in Bb
Performance
Right Hand Dynamics & Control
Demonstration
Dynamic Minor Blues in B
Performance
Pentatonic Sequencing
Demonstration
What's included
43 lessons • 10 charts • 8 Jam Tracks
Blues Soloing Handbook
Hi I’m Seth Rosenbloom. Welcome to the Blues Soloing Handbook.
Playing the blues is all about expressing emotions. What’s always drawn me to the genre is the fact that it allows for an extraordinarily wide range of emotion. That, I think, is the key to making great music overall, and great blues in particular.
In this course, I’ll present what I personally consider to be 10 of the most important techniques and creative approaches for blues soloing and improvisation. We’ll work on expressive vibrato technique, bending accurately and tastefully, interval training and sequencing for pentatonic based lines, dynamics, outlining chord tones, chordal punctuations, and many other approaches that you’ll be able to put to use in your blues solos right away. We’ll then apply each of these concepts in a series of blues soloing performance studies ranging across some of the most popular blues feels, slow blues, uptown and mid-tempo shuffles, minor blues, rhumba feels, and other forms of the blues.
I’ll break down everything in detail and you’ll have TrueFire’s learning tools to work with as you play through the course.Ready to start? Grab your guitar, and let’s go!
Playing the blues is all about expressing emotions. What’s always drawn me to the genre is the fact that it allows for an extraordinarily wide range of emotion. That, I think, is the key to making great music overall, and great blues in particular.
In this course, I’ll present what I personally consider to be 10 of the most important techniques and creative approaches for blues soloing and improvisation. We’ll work on expressive vibrato technique, bending accurately and tastefully, interval training and sequencing for pentatonic based lines, dynamics, outlining chord tones, chordal punctuations, and many other approaches that you’ll be able to put to use in your blues solos right away. We’ll then apply each of these concepts in a series of blues soloing performance studies ranging across some of the most popular blues feels, slow blues, uptown and mid-tempo shuffles, minor blues, rhumba feels, and other forms of the blues.
I’ll break down everything in detail and you’ll have TrueFire’s learning tools to work with as you play through the course.Ready to start? Grab your guitar, and let’s go!
Vibrato Technique
In this video, I discuss my vibrato technique as well as how to tailor your vibrato to different tempos and feels by learning to control the speed and width.
Slow Blues in C#
I introduce our 12 bar slow blues backing track in the key of C# with a quick 4 chord. We also cover the chord voicings I used while recording the backing track.
Slow Blues in C#
Here's the performance over the C# slow blues backing track. My focus is on using the intensity of vibrato in order to build the solo.
Slow Blues in C#
We break down the solo performance - going over a few key licks in the solo and once again focusing on how the vibrato plays a large part in the development and contour of the solo.
Bending Accuracy
In this video, I discuss my bending technique with a focus on how to improve your bending accuracy. We cover a couple exercises that will help to develop intonation accuracy as well as the ability to bend with proper velocity.
Up Shuffle in Bb
I introduce our second backing track - a 12 bar blues shuffle in the key of Bb - covering the voicings that I used to record it.
+ 36 more lessons
Reviews
12 results
Rinaldo
Verified buyer
10/09/25
Blues Soloing Handbook
super. . .
GatorDanP
Verified buyer
09/09/24
Best of the Best
Seth is one of the greatest instructors on TrueFire. His instructions on bending and vibrato get it done!
Rich
06/07/24
Very well-structured course
This is a really well structured course. Each overview, performance, and breakdown ties together the main theme of each lesson perfectly. There are so many other fine points you can pick up from the example solos as well. (They are clearly put together to teach rather than show off). It must take a lot of work put together a course like this. It'll keep you busy for a good while for sure.
jrmusic
Verified buyer
12/09/21
Blues Soloing Handbook
The amount of ideas and materials in this course is amazing. It is enough to keep me busy for months to sink into the course.
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