Rob Garland: Chord Tone Soloing On The Blues Guitar Lesson

This lesson is taken from Rob Garland's TrueFire Classroom 'Guitar Babylon.'
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Lesson notes-
Using chord tones as a guide to solo with over a standard 12 bar blues progression in the key of C. Targeting the 3rd and b7th of the I-IV-V chords, connecting them to create lines. Practicing without a backing track outlining the changes then soloing with a backing track increasing the melodic content of your solo. Being aware of movement of tones between the chords such as the half step between the MAJ 3rd of the I chord to the b7th of the IV chord -This could also be thought of as outlining the MAJ 3rd (of the I chord) then dropping it to the b3rd, which is useful for visualizing pentatonic lines. Also the b7th of the I chord moving to the MAJ 3rd of the IV chord is another melodic half step movement. Experiment in different positions on the neck and in different keys. Try to see chord tones along with other devices such as the pentatonic/blues scale, arpeggios and the mixolydian mode. Onscreen captions provide additional information.

In this clip Rob played his Mesa Boogie Lonestar Special custom amplifier, strung his Tom Anderson with D'Addario strings and used Super Black Picks by Hell Guitars.

Chord Tone Soloing On The Blues Guitar Lesson With Rob Garland TrueFire Mesa Boogie D'Addario