I keep seeing these charts -
What does this mean? Does it mean that if you are playing G blues (far left), you only hit the black dots, and if you hit any other notes it's gonna sound terrible? Can someone explain this chart to me. NOOB HERE!
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grab any fretted instrument you have handy
pick a string and play the following:
open, 3rd fret, 5th fret, 7th fret, 10th fret, 12th fret.
You just played a blues scale, also called the pentatonic minor
1 - 3flat - 4 - 5 - 7flat - octave (which is a repeat of 1)
nearly every metal/rock/blues/jazz lead guitar solo is based on jumping around on just these notes
for any note you can name, you can find it at 4 or more spots on the fingerboard
gitty has taken the time to give you a cheat sheet showing you all the places that all of these 5 notes live to make it easier for you to make up a lead/solo.
If the song is in the key of G Minor use the first one labeled G Blues
if the song is in the key of A Minor, use the second one labeled A Blues
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Extra Credit = look carefully at the shapes/boxes and you can see its a repeating pattern that starts in different places depending on which key it's in.
Thanks. Your answer made it easier for me to understand.
Appreciated!
Yes, true for archaic North Mississippi hill country blues without chord progression, otherwise not correct:
A simple 12 bar blues has the structure abaa/bbaa/cbac.
If the «a» bars are key of G, use the G scale for them, for the «b» bars use the C scale, and for the «c» bars the D scale.
You played bass? Try to play some blues bass lines on your box and you will get the idea.
Yes, played bass...back around 1987, LOL. It's been years. BUT, I never knew anything about "notes". I played everything by ear, meaning: I fumbled around the neck constantly and after awhile knew where I needed to go to find the write notes. I know it's untraditional, but I just picked it up and started figuring things out, and was playing well, but nobody said to me, "That fret is this note." I just figured things out and memorized them. But I know nothing about A-G notes.
As a drummer, for years I'd played 12 bar blues in songs, but honestly I had no idea that's what they called it. Took drum lessons for years, but it was all percussion talk....no "tuned" music talk.
I'm gonna take lessons on this CBG. I have alot to learn. I just want my CBG....it's still being built.