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This is super cool! It comes from Griff Hamlin and is meant to be shared. Before you click the link, read the email from Griff that all BGU subscribers receive. This is for the benefit of non-subscribers. 

“You may not know (or remember,) but there's a great tool I had made for you that you can use to learn your blues scales - all of them, inside and out. But before you go run off and try it, let me give you a suggestion... because this tool I have for you is very powerful - and that means you might need a little direction to get started. :) Now there's a video on the page that will define for you the "left facing" and "right facing" versions of scales, but here's my suggestion to get started.


Set the 4 dropdowns like this:
Root Note: A (or whatever key you want) (don't leave it on random)
String: 6 (don't leave it as random)
Left/Right: Right
Major/Minor: Minor 
 
Now hit "deal" and, of course, all the cards will turn over to be what you selected (since none of them are random, there's no surprise.)
 
Hit the "Hint" button and you'll see good old Box 1.
 
Change String: to 4, and you'll get Box 2 in the same key
 
Change String: to 2, and you'll get Box 3 in the same key
 
Change String: to 5, and you'll get Box 4
 
Change String: to 3, and you'll get Box 5
 
Wanna work a different key? Go through the same steps with a different key.
 
Think you've got every key down? Change the "Key" to random and test your skills.
 
It's super fun and a great way to work those scales so get to it. Check it out here and make sure to bookmark the page so you can come back to it (and if you dig it, share it with your friends.)” 

Now here’s the link to the TRAINING TOOL & VIDEO.

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Thought I’d spice up Griff’s Fretboard Diagram PDF with my own. If; in addition to the black, red and blue dots; you want to visualize the forms in terms of intervals like this: 

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Feel free to download my two PDF files: Five Major Blues Forms.pdf  Five Minor Blues Forms.pdf 

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This is cool. Thank you for posting. 

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On ‎2‎/‎5‎/‎2018 at 2:16 PM, V7#5b9 said:

Thought I’d spice up Griff’s Fretboard Diagram PDF with my own. If; in addition to the black, red and blue dots; you want to visualize the forms in terms of intervals like this: 

5a78ac9e8415d_ScreenShot2018-02-05at1_51_20PM.png.bf78ac475deea791a408072bd5b19769.png

Feel free to download my two PDF files: Five Major Blues Forms.pdf  Five Minor Blues Forms.pdf 

Hi V7#5b9. On the ,major Blues PDF how come it don't have the 4, b5 and the 7b of the blues scale, but the minor dose, The blues scale is R, b3.4, b5, 5, b7, R just wondering thanks

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10 hours ago, Blue Dog said:

Hi V7#5b9. On the ,major Blues PDF how come it don't have the 4, b5 and the 7b of the blues scale, but the minor dose, The blues scale is R, b3.4, b5, 5, b7, R just wondering thanks

Hi Blue Dog. The answer is because it’s a more major (less bluesy), but still bluesy enough sound. It’s simply a major pentatonic scale with a flat 3 added. As you may or may not know the General Rule is that in Blues over the I chord you can play the major or minor blues sounds and over the IV and V chords you use only the minor blues sounds. The major sounding blues scale does not have the p4, b5 and b7. I hope this helps.

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6 hours ago, V7#5b9 said:

Hi Blue Dog. The answer is because it’s a more major (less bluesy), but still bluesy enough sound. It’s simply a major pentatonic scale with a flat 3 added. As you may or may not know the General Rule is that in Blues over the I chord you can play the major or minor blues sounds and over the IV and V chords you use only the minor blues sounds. The major sounding blues scale does not have the p4, b5 and b7. I hope this helps.

Thanks I see . Cool

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