UK Fusion Guitarist Tom Quayle has just released the latest of his in-depth downloadable lessons called “Fusion Blues - Modern Lines For The Advancing Blues Player” which helps you incorporate some of the techniques used in Fusion into your blues playing and go beyond Pentatonic based blues licks. The lesson comes with either an HD (1080p) or SD video, I would recommend the HD obviously if you can afford the bandwidth as the quality is spectacular and you really see every little detail of Tom’s playing, including his brand new Seafoam Suhr Strat with Roasted Maple fingerboard! Aside from the video the lesson download also includes a number of PDF’s covering scale patterns used as well as transcriptions of the 4 blues solos covered in this hour long lesson. Also included are MP3 files of each solo in it’s entirety and the corresponding backing tracks and a PDF containing the entire lesson including in-depth descriptions of everything covered in the lesson. Tom really puts a lot of work into each of his downloadable lessons, the video alone is very detailed breaking down each solo and explaining what is happening.
Each Blues solo covered in this lesson has a slightly different approach but all are played over the same standard 12 bar blues I-IV-V backing track. The first solo uses a combination of minor pentatonic licks mixed with a Superlocrian scale to create some nice “outside” sounding tension over the V chord. The 2nd solo adds some extra rhythmic interest as well as using the Mixolydian scale, Diminished scale and a cool hybrid picked country lick. The 3rd solo is the one that will probably sound the most foreign to players used to sticking to the minor pentatonic as it is almost entirely comprised of using the Diminished scale, as Tom explains the trick with using the Diminshed scale is to make sure that you don’t lose the tonality of the chord you are playing over completely by over using the outside notes in the scale, I think this is probably something that takes a long time to master but Tom is truly an expert. The 4th and final solo covered in this lesson is called Pentatonic Expansion Blues which extends basic Pentatonic patterns, I won’t give away how Tom does this but it is a simple technique that has a great effect on improvising over changes.
This lesson is right down my alley, I love listening to blues players like Robben Ford and wishing I could emulate some of the sounds I hear when I jam over a backing track rather than the boring repetitive pentatonic minor licks I constantly seem to produce, by incorporating a few little techniques covered in this lesson and by practicing over the backing tracks provided I feel that I can make my solos sound more sophisticated. If you are like me and want to take your blues soloing to the next level I highly recommend buying this course which is available on Tom’s site for $20 here - http://www.tomquayle.co.uk/lessons.html. While you are on the site there are plenty of other dowloadable lessons available that are definitely worth checking out too, Tom is a great teacher and an exceptionally talented guitarist.
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