Transform Your Bluegrass Solos with These A Minor Scale Workouts | BLUEGRASS Guitar Lesson with TAB

When I first started playing bluegrass guitar, soloing over minor chords was a real challenge. After years of trial and error, I discovered the secret: you don’t need to think of the minor chord in isolation. Instead, relate it back to the key of the song. This led me to the concept of the relative minor.

I realized that you don’t have to learn an entirely new minor scale to solo over minor chords. You can use the major scale of the key you’re in—just start on the A note. The magic of this simple approach is that the major scale contains all the same tones as the corresponding minor chord.

In this lesson, we’ll dive into how to solo over minor chords by connecting them to their relative major. Plus, I’ll walk you through 4 essential minor scale workouts that will give you the tools to craft your own solos.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:39 How to solo over Am chord
02:34 Am natural scale
03:50 Am pentatonic scale
05:03 Blue notes
07:14 Scale workout 1
10:48 Scale workout 2
14:05 Scale workout 3
17:03 Scale workout 4

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