Blues Scale Guitar Lesson For Beginners + TABs

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What is a Blues Scale?

The blues scale is made up of a simple pentatonic scale with an added blues note, in musical terms this extra blues note is called the flat 5th, and is often used as a passing tone while playing the blues, as you will hear in this guitar lesson! This introductory video covers some interesting ideas that can be used while playing the blues scale shapes on your guitar.

This Blues Scale Guitar Lesson for beginners tutorial includes guitar TABs on screen so you can easily follow along. We begin by learning the Blues Scale on guitar in the key of E minor, since this allows us to play open strings and makes it easier to start. This video lesson covers a few scale positions and some guitar riff and lick ideas using the notes of the blues scale.