Jim Oblon drops some blues science, demystifying the practice of alternating between parallel minor and major pentatonics ...

The idea is to learn how the 12-bar blues structure works, starting with single notes (one per bar), and then building up to two notes, then three, then four, then with different rhythm patterns ...

Blues in simple time with four beats in the bar and mostly follows a 12 bar blues chord structure ... the singer to make up the last line. Some notes used in blues music may be flattened by ...

Figure 1 is an improvised solo played over the 12-bar form ... But I’ll also use notes from the A minor pentatonic scale (A, C, D, E, G) and the A blues scale (A, C, D, Eb, E, G), as well ...