Blues Scale guitar lesson key of E
Hey there, I�m Tomas Michaud from Real Guitar School and Starland School of Music. You know,
I�ve always had a great time on the guitar jamming and today I want show you a cool Blues
Scale in the key of E that you can use and getting the rhyme pretty quickly and make
some cool jam especially with a band or backing tracks so let me show you. Ill start from
the very beginning and then Ill show you how to use it as well.
Okay this is a scale in the Key of E and it has a lot of movements up and down the neck.
One of the reasons that it does sound cool is that you can slide in some of the notes
if you want. Ill show you the basic scale and then later on you can also add some notes
or Ill call blues notes to make it sound more blues. Here�s the basic scale also known
as a minor pentatonic � open E, I got the 5th string, Im on the 4th string, 3rd now
Im gonna shift the 1st finger to 2nd string and to the 1st string.
Here we go, lets break it down and by the way, you would learn this in pieces, will
try to the whole scales and start with the first part of it, get a little comfortable
with and on. Let me show you the first part � open E, now I got the 1st finger 3rd fret.
Im using the 3rd finger right here, you don�t have to use your 3rd that�s what Im using
then slide up to the 7th fret still on the 6th string or on the 5th fret 1st finger 5th
fret 5th string now my 3rd finger again on the 7th fret fifth string. Now Im gonna go
to the 4th string and then 7th fret 4th string. Lets do that much (strumming) okay start from
the open E, play with me, 1st finger 3rd fret, 3rd finger 5th fret, slide up 7 now 5th string
5th fret, 1st finger 3rd down, 7th fret 4th string, 1st finger now 4th string 3rd finger
that�s 7th fret now. Okay practice that and now Im gonna go on, right now Im on that
7th fret, Im gonna slide up to the 9th fret that�s still on the 4th string, 3rd finger,
1st finger over, 3rd string now Im on the 7th fret 3rd string, 3rd finger 9th fret 3rd
string. Now I move my finger over, this is a little different move because Im moving
over a fret, Im on the 8th fret now see, I move over here to the 8th fret 2nd string,
still my 1st finger, 3rd finger now, that same pattern starts again. Im on the 11th
fret, slide up to the 3rd to the 2nd string. I said that wrong it must be the 10th fret
8th fret, 10th that�s right � 8, 10, 12 and then 1st string, 1st finger that�s the
10th again and on the 12th that�s a high E, that�s lowest E, that�s a high E string
and that�s the (3:54) so that much, lets do it together.
Am gonna start right here where we left off for that first part, slide up, there�s a
4th string. I get my 3rd finger on the 7th fret and Im sliding up to the 9th fret okay
now 1s finger 3rd string 7th fret, 3rd finger that�s the 9th fret, go the 8th fret on
the 2nd string � that�s where I got mixed up before okay 8th fret, 10 and then slide
the 3rd finger up to the 12th back over to the 1st string, 10th fret again and then 12th,
going down
so practice that whole scale and then practice it playing with a backing track. Im gonna
call what I just taught you an E minor pentatonic scale. If you wanna make it into a blue scale,
you just add a few blues notes. Now my recommendation is you learn that minor pentatonic and then
you add the blues notes later but if you wanna go and do both at the same time, theres no
real right or wrong to this.
Let me show you the blues notes, heres the pentatonic and Im gonna add a blues notes
then jumping right to here so watch this again. Im gonna keep going down, that�s another
blues notes right there now one more, that�s another blues notes.
Okay now I thought I give you an idea of what it sounds like when youre jumping along with
a background track so let me go and try my band now start for the simplest form of the
scale (strumming). This is just a basic scale now Ill add some of the blues notes to it,
that�s a blues note. Here we go again.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson at least just as much as I enjoyed making it for you. Listen,
I got some advice from a Tennis teacher one time that made sense to me more in retrospect.
After my beginning lessons, he said �Now, go hit a thousand balls and then come back
and well add some more technique, more advanced stuff�. I wanna say the same thing about
this scale. Play a scale a hundredth times, jam with a backing track either your own or
someone elses and then start adding more complex licks and other scales to it. Thanks again
and take care.
Hi again. I made a backing track for you and its on my blog. Go ahead and click the link
to go to my blog post then youll get a backing track that youll download for free absolutely
free and the cheat sheet that I thought would help for the fingering and the chord progressions
on what youre doing. Ohh and by the way, sign up for my email when youre there. Theres a
little box on the right hand side, just put your email and probably your first name and
Ill keep you updated when I make new lessons. Take care.