Blues Soloing Guitar for Beginners 1

Hey I'm Jeff McErlain. Welcome to Blues Soloing for Beginners.

The key to success when learning any style of music is having a strong foundation to build upon, which is the way most pro musicians, including myself, learned when we were just starting out.

Learning just one scale, a basic vocabulary of blues licks, and a few essential techniques are the fundamental building blocks of your foundation — and all you really need to start soloing over a blues.

You don't need to learn theory, struggle through tedious exercises, or read music to get up and running quickly.

I’ll show you the single most important blues scale — the minor pentatonic. This simple, easy-to-learn 5-note scale has powered literally thousands of blues solos.

We'll work on the key blues soloing techniques including bending, vibrato, hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Using the pentatonic scale and these key techniques we'll start building your vocabulary of blues licks, and I'll show you how to connect them to construct your solos.

In the last section of the course, we'll touch on how to improvise your solos. We'll play together over blues backing tracks trading solos back and forth to practice everything we worked on in the course.

What makes this course really special is how you'll learn these fundamental building blocks for soloing and we'll practice everything together!

Each lesson begins with an overview and demonstration. We’ll then practice together using a slow play along, and then we'll solo over a blues backing track for real-world musical context. Plus, using TrueFire’s learning tools, you can loop, slow down or sync the tab to any of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.

Ready to start soloing? Grab your guitar and let’s get started.