IN THE WOODSHED

Improvising over a blues can be as simple or complicated as you want to make it. The usual starting point is to use the minor Pentatonic from the tonic chord and have fun playing licks and bending strings to your heart’s content. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, as players like BB King have proven for decades. However, if you want to inject a bit of jazziness to your licks then it is simpler than you might think. In this lesson we