Simple Blues Soloing System
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You know the rut: the rhythm sounds great, but when it's time to solo you're back in the same pentatonic box, playing the same handful of licks you've played for years. More scales never seem to fix it.
This book fixes it — without more scales.
Simple Blues Soloing System is a practical, musical approach to blues-rock soloing built on three positions and a handful of intervals — not endless scales, arpeggios and patterns. Instead of running boxes up and down, you learn to choose the notes that actually make the blues sound like the blues: the bends, the major-third-against-minor-third interplay, the sixths, the blue note — and crucially, where to land as the chords change.
That last part is the heart of it. A closing "How to Apply It All" section takes a real 12-bar blues and shows you exactly how to outline the I, the IV and the V — and even how to handle the dressed-up 9ths, 13ths and the Hendrix 7#9, using notes you already have under your fingers. If you grabbed my free Blues Chord Book, this picks up precisely where it left off: there are the chords; here's how to solo over them.
Inside:
Get it under your fingers and your blues solos will start sounding like they know exactly what chord they're sitting on.
This book fixes it — without more scales.
Simple Blues Soloing System is a practical, musical approach to blues-rock soloing built on three positions and a handful of intervals — not endless scales, arpeggios and patterns. Instead of running boxes up and down, you learn to choose the notes that actually make the blues sound like the blues: the bends, the major-third-against-minor-third interplay, the sixths, the blue note — and crucially, where to land as the chords change.
That last part is the heart of it. A closing "How to Apply It All" section takes a real 12-bar blues and shows you exactly how to outline the I, the IV and the V — and even how to handle the dressed-up 9ths, 13ths and the Hendrix 7#9, using notes you already have under your fingers. If you grabbed my free Blues Chord Book, this picks up precisely where it left off: there are the chords; here's how to solo over them.
Inside:
- Three fretboard positions for blues-rock soloing — built from intervals, not scale shapes
- How to use the b3–3 bend, the 6th, the blue note and the 2/9 to actually sound bluesy
- How to outline the changes — landing on the right notes as the chords move
- A full worked 12-bar, including soloing over extended and altered chords
- Very little to memorise — learn a handful of notes, then connect the rest
- Who it's for: high-beginner to intermediate players who know their pentatonics but feel stuck in the box, and want a way out that's about music, not memorising more patterns.
Get it under your fingers and your blues solos will start sounding like they know exactly what chord they're sitting on.