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You spend all this time learning guitar scales, practicing for hours up and down the fretboard. Then you switch gears and work on your blues, funk and rock riffs and grooves. But at some point you think, where's the connection between technical guitar skills and taking a ripping guitar solo? How do you take the left brain technique and apply it to the right brain artistry? In this video, Gary will show you how it's done. He will show you how to apply the Dorian Mode to the Blues.

0:00 - Intro
1:18 - 2 Notes
2:18 - I Chord
3:16 - IV Chord
3:49 - V Chord
4:00 - Example
5:20 - Recap
6:13 - Lick 1
7:23 - Lick 2
9:23 - Lick 3
10:35 - Outro

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The first step to jamming over a standard blues progression is of course to use the pentatonic scale of whatever key you’re in! If it’s an A blues, you might use the A minor pentatonic, and maybe even mix the A minor pentatonic with the A major pentatonic! And of course, you’ll bend some of those notes to make them new notes or to target specific notes.

But the next step to really play the Blues is to target specific notes depending on what chord that you’re on in the progression. You want to start thinking about licks that sound good specifically over the I, the IV and the V chord. By diving into that pursuit, you quickly find out that there are some tones outside of the pentatonic scale that can really sound powerful depending on what chord you’re playing!

Well, one way to take a giant leap her, is by taking your minor pentatonic scale which is comprised of a tonic, a minor third, a perfect fourth, a perfect fifth, and a minor seventh, and adding two new notes/intervals to it - a major second and a major sixth. By doing so, you are now getting two great chord tones for your IV and V chord - the major third of the IV, and the fifth of the V, and two color tones for your I chord - a 9th, and a 6th!

Now, play through an A blues progression, and when you’re on the I chord, feel free to play all of the available notes here, but really dig the sound of scale degree two on the 7th fret of the high E string. In this case, that’s the note B. Start by just experimenting with that one extra note over the I chord (A7).

Now, over the IV chord (D7), try playing scale degree six, which, relative to D7 is the MAJOR THIRD. In this case, that’s the note F#. This is a really powerful note that is part of the D7 chord, but not in the A minor pentatonic.

And now on the V chord (E7), try to hit scale degree 2 again, which is the fifth of the chord E7, which in this case is the note B.

Now even though these notes will have a particular strength over each chord, remember, there are no rules in music and you can try playing these two new notes over all the chords in different ways and get to know the sound! In general, this scale works well over the entire progression.

Watch this video lesson where I teach you a few specific riffs to play using the A Dorian Mode over an A blues!

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