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Plan · Week 8 of 8

Your progressions and minor blues

The drill

Apply weeks 1 to 7 to each of your progressions. Minor blues in Am (Am, Dm, Em) with A minor pentatonic and A dorian.

You pass when

Three choruses over each of your progressions, with the changes audible

Ex. 1 · 80 bpm

A minor pentatonic, box 1 (fret 5)

Box 1 · fret 5
eBGDAERb35b7b34b7R45Rb3456789
  • Root
  • Scale

How to read: 7b9 = bend fret 7 up to the pitch of fret 9. r7 = release the bend back to fret 7. ~~ = vibrato. / = slide. Note names are on the right.

Tab
e|---------------------------5-8-|  A  C
B|-----------------------5-8-----|  E  G
G|-----------------5-7-----------|  C  D
D|-------------5-7---------------|  G  A
A|---------5-7-------------------|  D  E
E|-5-8---------------------------|  A  C

Intervals, string by string: R b3 · 4 5 · b7 R · b3 4 · 5 b7 · R b3.

Ex. 2

A blues scale (box 1 plus the b5)

Box 1 plus the b5
eBGDAERb35b7b34b5b7R4b55Rb3456789
  • Root
  • Scale
Tab
e|-------------------------------5-8-|  A  C
B|---------------------------5-8-----|  E  G
G|-------------------5-7-8-----------|  C  D  Eb
D|---------------5-7-----------------|  G  A
A|-------5-6-7-----------------------|  D  Eb E
E|-5-8-------------------------------|  A  C

Eb is the b5. Pass through it. Never stop on it.

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