Use the blue note to add expressiveness to your guitar playing.

It's crazy how HARD some simple things are to adopt on the guitar. Instructors often show you in a blaze of speed how to just add a bunch of new notes into your repertoire and then you are on your own.

I feel your pain.

As a big fan of blues guitar players, I longed to improvise in a way that felt "bluesy" to my ears. And I wanted to be able to express myself like my heroes do. Along the way, I learned about "blue notes" and they sounded promising.  "In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note that—for expressive purposes—is sung or played at a slightly different pitch from standard."

However, everything I was told and shown made it really difficult to adopt this in a way that worked for me when I needed it most...when it's my turn to take a solo in a song at the local blues jam for example. No time to think - just do. At the time, the best I could do was keep practicing using the 5 box patterns of the pentatonic scale and try, try, try to find those blue notes when I needed them. I call this "the hard way".  Look familiar?

I have good news for you!  It does not need to be this hard. There is an easier way. It works, it's movable, and it's so much simpler to apply. But first...you need to learn some new ways to play the pentatonic scale patterns. Just 2 notes on 1 string or 4 notes across 2 strings at a time. Once you learn those mini-patterns. Learning to add the blue note is sooo much more straightforward and I would argue hard to forget!  I call this the "easy way".

If you are like me, learning where the blue note fits in a collection of just 3-5 notes is way easier to apply than finding the blue notes in a collection of 12-15 notes!

If you are ready to learn, check out Pat's Rock Guitar School. But only if you are ready to find impressive ways to incorporate the blue note into your guitar solos.