Spice Up the Blues

Is your Blues playing bland? Does it feel like your playing is missing a few key ingredients? Well, it's time to spice things up with this comprehensive course as Mark Kroos offers several tools that will add variety to your solo playing over the 12-Bar Blues and beyond!

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Spice Up the Blues

About this course

Is your Blues playing bland? Does it feel like your playing is missing a few key ingredients? Well, it's time to spice things up with this comprehensive course as Mark Kroos offers several tools that will add variety to your solo playing over the 12-Bar Blues and beyond!

What you'll learn

  • Apply diminished 7th chord substitution in measure 6 of a 12-bar blues
  • Play through a standard 12-bar blues form
  • Count and navigate through the 12-bar form
  • Understand the construction of a fully diminished 7th chord
  • Understand the basic structure of a 12-bar blues progression
Release date: 09/21/2021 • 5h 43m runtime
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Sample lessons
Alternating Major and Minor Pentatonic
Alternating Major and Minor Pentatonic
Lesson
Solo: Dorian and Mixolydian Modes
Solo: Dorian and Mixolydian Modes
Lesson
Solo: Arpeggios
Solo: Arpeggios
Lesson
Sixths
Sixths
Lesson

What's included

47 lessons • 24 charts • 20 Jam Tracks

Introduction to 'Spice Up the Blues'
Mark Kroos introduces us to 'Spice Up the Blues'!
What is a 12 Bar Blues?
Grab your guitar and let's get started with this basic form of the 12-Bar Blues.
Alternating Major and Minor Pentatonic
We've all heard of the Minor Pentatonic scale, but in this lesson, Mark will dive in on tweaking the Pentatonic Scale to cover more ground and incorporate the Major and Minor Blues Scales.
Alternating Major and Minor Pentatonic
We've all heard of the Minor Pentatonic scale, but in this lesson, Mark will dive in on tweaking the Pentatonic Scale to cover more ground and incorporate the Major and Minor Blues Scales.
Solo: Alternating Major and Minor Pentatonic
Now that we have the Major and Minor Blues Scale under our fingers, Mark takes us through our first solo for this series utilizing both of these foundational scales.
Solo: Alternating Major and Minor Pentatonic
Now that we have the Major and Minor Blues Scale under our fingers, Mark takes us through our first solo for this series utilizing both of these foundational scales.
The Dorian Mode
In this lesson, Mark shifts gears and dives into one of his very favorite modes: The Dorian Mode.

+ 40 more lessons

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Reviews

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johnnyjay64

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12/22/24

Excellent guide to the blues

A good guide to the structure of the blues

jammydodger

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10/27/24

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