Blues Guitar Improvisation

So when it comes to blues guitar improvisation obviously the most important thing is you know which notes to play and which ones NOT to play! That’s why we learn scales. In case you don’t a scale is a collection of notes that work together over certain chord sequences. Imagine if you just played any notes you liked over some chords, chances are most of it would sound pretty awful but a few notes would sound good. It’s those notes we need to harness to make our blues guitar improvisation skills up to par!

The best scale to learn first is the pentatonic scale. This is a simple 5 note scale that is dead easy to memorise and pretty easy to make some good sounds with. There are actually five shapes to learn in total but to start you off we’ll just learn the first one.

All you need to do is move this shape up or down depending on which key you’re in. So if you’re playing in A, start the shape on an A note (fret 5) If you’re playing in B start it on a B (fret 7) it’s as simple as that!

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