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Guitar Music Theory

Episode 10 Blues Guitar Scales Chords Progressions and Theory

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

Music, Arts, Performing Arts

4.7966 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this free guitar lesson you learn about blues guitar theory including blues chords and blues progressions. You also hear examples of how blues guitarists mix major and minor pentatonic scale patterns and use Mixolydian mode. Taught by Desi Serna of http://GuitarMusicTheory.com.

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0:00.0

You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Picking Mechanics, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more.

0:37.0

This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords,

0:44.6

progressions, modes, composition techniques,

0:47.6

improvisation, and more.

0:50.0

The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on up.

0:53.9

You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar.

0:57.9

Bass players can take away a lot from the lessons too. to.

1:05.0

Today's podcast episode is a previous recording in which you learn about blues guitar theory.

1:12.0

This includes which types of scales and

1:14.5

chords are used in blues music and how Blues music appears to break the rules

1:19.5

of traditional theory. You're going to. Oh, No. I'm going to do you.

2:03.0

And do you do it.

2:04.0

And do you.

2:05.0

And do you do do

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do do do do you do do

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and do you do

2:12.0

and do you Oh, uh, oh, you're not. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hi this is Desi Cerna and And in this free guitar lesson, we're going to explore some of the details of blues guitar theory, including blues guitar scales, chords, chord progressions, modes, and more.

2:46.4

This information is suitable for intermediate and advanced level players who have already learned pentatonic and major scale patterns,

2:57.0

chord progressions, and playing by numbers. Let's get started. You know, blues music uses a variety of scales. It uses the major pentatonic and the minor

3:16.0

pentatonic and it also uses some major scale patterns and then it also combines

3:21.0

these scales. Blues can actually be very simple to play, but theoretically

3:29.4

it can actually be quite complex. The reason how it can be simple is that many blues songs are just a couple

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