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In this live stream I took everyone through solo acoustic blues, starting from the basics and building up to more advanced stuff. We kicked off by checking in with Open Mic Sunday blues submissions, then I helped Gareth out with his upcoming Pete Friesen jam homework by breaking down Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well" and "The Chain."
I spent quite a bit of time on the blues scale - which honestly should be called the metal scale since Black Sabbath and Metallica use it way more than blues players do. Showed you how it's just the minor pentatonic with one extra note added, that tritone interval that gives you that spooky Halloween sound. We worked through the E minor pentatonic superhighway and I demonstrated how it applies to those Fleetwood Mac solos.
Made some big announcements too: Beginner Electric is getting finished and will be fully released by Christmas, with levels rolling out from late October onwards. I'm also fixing up the Lead Guitar syllabus, converting it from those unwieldy 18 modules into a proper levels 1-9 format with jam tracks and player studies - much better for actually learning. That'll be live by end of October as well.
Covered the fundamentals of solo acoustic blues including Travis picking, seventh chord shapes, and songs like "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Freight Train." Explained why acoustic blues is different from electric - we use slides instead of bends because we don't have the sustain.
Andy.