Chords for The Acoustic Blues Scale that EVERY Guitar Player MUST KNOW

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_ Hey, what's up you guys Marty here with guitar jams.com
I want to show you this could be on an electric guitar and I've you know
I've taught this before but I just want to emphasize this is like the ultimate E blues scale run
This is the this is a run in the key of E.
So any kind of E blues
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_ _ [Bm] _ it goes like this the [E] open E and _ _ then index finger on the third fret
[G] And [Em] this is just another way to play the E blues scale open [G]
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Five six [G] seven _ _ [A] _ [A#] _ [B] _ [G] _
_ [A#] _ [B] _ _ [Em] now you can also skip that blues note.
That's the sixth fret and go
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[Em] _ But that [A] blues notes where you get
_ Okay, _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
_ so we have [Bm] zero three five
_ _ six seven now we have an awesome blues box right here five seven on the [E] a _ and
five seven on [G] the D
[A] _ Now I recommend learning in little doses like in [Em] other words go _ oh _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F#] Okay, [A] _ _ [Em] I got that and then keep keep adding little pieces
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[A] _ _ _ _ [Em] So _ _ this little even just what we covered right now one two, three, four five [F#] six seven eight little notes there
Some of the most classic rock riffs and blues riffs of all time are written right in that little zone
especially if you add like, you know an e7 chord right [E] here or
E7 sharp 9 Hendrix.
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Okay, so we have [G] zero three [B] [A#] five [Bm] six seven _ [Em] five seven [A] five seven
_ Now we have that same little blues note.
So [A#] seven [G] eight nine or just seven slid to nine and
This whole run is only going to use our index and ring finger for the whole thing.
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three [A#] five [B] six seven
[Em] five seven [A] five seven
[F#] _ [Bm] _ _ _ Eight nine
Seven [E] nine on the g [G]-string seven nine _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [C#] _ [Em] _ _ [A#] _ [Bm] _
_ _ and when you have these runs that are really long
It's uh, it's easier to extend your licks out not you know
When guys are just in the one pentatonic a lot of [E] times you kind of hiccup by running out of room
This enables you to climb up the entire neck.
So you have open e [G] o [F#] three five [Bm] six seven five [C] seven five [Em] seven eight nine
Seven nine on the G and this is the only weird weird part, but it's not really that weird
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Um, we're gonna go index finger.
Listen carefully to the fingers index finger on the eighth fret of the [G] B
To _ _ the tenth [F#m] fret on the B and _ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ [A] then we're [G] gonna slide with that so we could either go 10 11 12
which is that blues note [A#] again [Bm] or
just [A] 10 to 12 [G] and _
Then last but not least we have a 10 12 on the high E
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And where did we end we ended on the e root of the scale?
So once you get all the way to [F#] here
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_ [G] You can get your if you can change interchange your ring finger for your index finger and now my friends you're in the power zone
Or the tasty zone of the regular pentatonic that everyone learns first.
So _ [F#m] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] [E] check it out
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[A#] _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Gm] _ [G] _ _
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12 10 [B] 12 11 [D] 10 _
_ [G] 8 on the B and then ring finger to the 9 on the G 9 7 _ [B] 9
_ [A#] [A] 8 7 on the D _
[Gm] 5
_ [Em] _ [D] _ _ 7 5 [B] 7 [A] 6 [G] 5 [E] 3 [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ [A#] _ [Bm] _ [Em] _ _ [F#] _
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_ [E] _ [G] Or _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A#] _ [Em] _ _ _
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_ and triple a triple a triple [B] a triple a triple a triple a triple a triple a and Then what's so cool about that? It's like the freeway so you get little licks along the way But you use that up and down to you know to extend the licks out for instance I love this and this is taught on the new blues _ DVDs Index finger on the seventh fret of the high E and [Em] Middle finger on the eighth fret of the B And _ _ _ _ _ _ I just added my ring finger to the ninth fret of the high E, but that's like straight like pride and joy _ _ _ So, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ let's say there's that [D] lick right there [N] You can use that extension either from up here to down to it or from here up to it To your licks and that's just one lick of you know [E] a billion _ [G] [A] or [Bm] _ [Gm] _ _ [Bm] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _
[Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ from [C#] here _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ [Bm] _ _
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_ _ _ _ So work that run out. I think you're gonna really get a lot of use out of it and on my new DVDs I have _ [N] Ten jam tracks so you can just practice these licks all day and all night practice this run over different Styles of blues progression. So just keep that in mind and I got a lot more, you know free lessons coming your way, too And that's it. Thanks a lot. We'll talk to you later