FOOD FOR THOUGHT

In the last instalment we got into some musical statistics and how you can play the odds in your favour when improvising with the Major scale. This month I’d like to hit on the blues.

I’ve been teaching the idea of improvising on a 12-bar blues for over 30 years now, and must have taught the Minor Pentatonic a thousand times. And there’s this funny event that happens in maybe 20-30% of students.

Usually, I teach the A Minor Pentatonic after a student has learned to play a 12-bar shuffle.