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Essential Blues Lead Concepts (JamPlay)
Elevate Your Blues Guitar Solos: Master the Art of Soulful Lead Playing
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Rob Garland
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About this course
Unleash Your Inner Blues Guitar Hero with "Essential Blues Lead Concepts," an exceptional online guitar course exclusively available on TrueFire, produced in collaboration with JamPlay. Whether you're a budding blues guitarist or an experienced player looking to refine your lead skills, this course is your roadmap to mastering the art of blues soloing.
Led by expert instructors from JamPlay, "Essential Blues Lead Concepts" offers a comprehensive exploration of the techniques, scales, phrasing, and improvisational concepts that define the blues lead guitar. Through 37 immersive lessons, you'll learn to create captivating and soulful solos that will make your guitar sing and evoke the true essence of the blues.
From classic blues scales to expressive bends, vibratos, and slides, this course covers the essential building blocks of blues lead playing. You'll discover how to construct melodic phrases, develop your own unique style, and navigate the fretboard with confidence. With a focus on phrasing, dynamics, and note choice, you'll learn to create memorable solos that capture the heart and soul of the blues.
TrueFire's innovative learning platform provides an immersive and interactive experience. High-definition video lessons, on-screen tablature, and backing tracks make it easy to follow along and practice at your own pace. You'll have access to play-along exercises, allowing you to apply your newfound skills in a musical context, refine your improvisation, and develop your own voice as a blues guitarist.
Unleash the power of your blues guitar playing with "Essential Blues Lead Concepts." Take your solos to new heights, captivate audiences with your emotive playing, and become the blues lead guitarist you've always aspired to be. Enroll now and embark on a transformative journey through the essential elements of blues lead guitar.
Led by expert instructors from JamPlay, "Essential Blues Lead Concepts" offers a comprehensive exploration of the techniques, scales, phrasing, and improvisational concepts that define the blues lead guitar. Through 37 immersive lessons, you'll learn to create captivating and soulful solos that will make your guitar sing and evoke the true essence of the blues.
From classic blues scales to expressive bends, vibratos, and slides, this course covers the essential building blocks of blues lead playing. You'll discover how to construct melodic phrases, develop your own unique style, and navigate the fretboard with confidence. With a focus on phrasing, dynamics, and note choice, you'll learn to create memorable solos that capture the heart and soul of the blues.
TrueFire's innovative learning platform provides an immersive and interactive experience. High-definition video lessons, on-screen tablature, and backing tracks make it easy to follow along and practice at your own pace. You'll have access to play-along exercises, allowing you to apply your newfound skills in a musical context, refine your improvisation, and develop your own voice as a blues guitarist.
Unleash the power of your blues guitar playing with "Essential Blues Lead Concepts." Take your solos to new heights, captivate audiences with your emotive playing, and become the blues lead guitarist you've always aspired to be. Enroll now and embark on a transformative journey through the essential elements of blues lead guitar.
What you'll learn
- Use CAGED system to find chord shapes and arpeggios in 7th position
- Execute effective bends (whole step and half step) for major/minor thirds
- Solo over Stormy Monday style progression with chord awareness
- Target chord tones through complex jazz-blues changes
- Navigate between major and minor tonalities
Release date: 11/16/2021 • 8h 09m runtime
Sample lessons
The Major Pentatonic Scale (CAGED)
Lesson
Mixolydian Over The I Chord (A7)
Lesson
The Mixo-Pentatonic
Lesson
Bb Jazz Blues (6th position) Chord Tones and Arpeggios
Lesson
What's included
49 lessons • 24 charts • 21 Jam Tracks
Introduction to ' Essential Blues Lead Concepts'
Rob Garland introduces us to his new course, 'Essential Blues Lead Concepts'!
CAGED Chords Review
Before we dive into the blues, Rob gives us a quick lesson on the chords we will be using throughout this course by referencing CAGED Chords.
CAGED Chords Review
Before we dive into the blues, Rob gives us a quick lesson on the chords we will be using throughout this course by referencing CAGED Chords.
The Major Pentatonic Scale (CAGED)
Now that we are all freshened up with our CAGED Chords, let's now look at the major pentatonic scale and how we will apply this scale to the blues.
The Major Pentatonic Scale (CAGED)
Now that we are all freshened up with our CAGED Chords, let's now look at the major pentatonic scale and how we will apply this scale to the blues.
The Major Pentatonic On The I Chord
In this lesson, we take a look at how we will incorporate the pentatonic scale into the 12 bar blues!
The Major Pentatonic On The I Chord
In this lesson, we take a look at how we will incorporate the pentatonic scale into the 12 bar blues!
+ 42 more lessons
Reviews
5 results
Jordu
Verified buyer
12/04/25
Mixolidian Conections
good course
Ohio5665
Verified buyer
06/29/25
Essential Blues Lead Concepts (JamPlay)
This Rob Garland lesson like all of his other lessons is full of great info and concepts!
Steve
05/10/25
Goldmine Course
This is one of the better blues courses I have found and the content is extensive. I keep coming back to this course rather than those by more notable blues guitarists.
Osokin
Verified buyer
09/03/23
Next Level Blues Playing!
This is a nice course from Rob Garland, designed to show various ways in which guitarists can break out of the 'pentatonic rut' when playing through various blues forms - some of which are more complex than the usually encountered 12 Bar blues form.
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