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Coming soon – Guitar Lab: Blues Soloing!!!

We’re crankin’ them TrueFire DVDs lately! This week saw the release of Modes That Matter–a comprehensive course on the subject of scales and modes that people actually use in their playing. You’ll find a set of killer jam tracks to play over as well as a nearly a 1900 page PDF called The Source Book that features an incredible amount of fingerings as well as modal pentatonics. It’s awesome!!

Oh yeah!! This week TrueFire drops my latest guitar course, Guitar Lab: Blues Progressions! In this course, I dig deep into all things blues progressions, presenting 23 progressions in various keys and forms including a few eclectic 6-, 14- and 16-bar forms. So, just in terms of expanding your bag of progressions you’ll be way ahead of the game, but that’s just the start.

The real gold in this course is the six-string rocket science revealed within those 23 progressions. I step you through three choruses for each of the 23 progressions. The first chorus utilizes familiar 7th chords and “stock changes.” I then spice up the second chorus with tasty chord extensions and voicings to demonstrate how to expand the palette of colors you can draw on when comping the blues. In the third chorus, I take you to graduate school with next-level voicings, voice leading, riff-based approaches and a variety of other advanced concepts for freshening up your blues comps.

All of the progressions have accompanying lead sheet charts with pint-sized chord grids beneath the chord symbols for quick reference and fingerings. Below each one-chorus lead sheet, I chart out all of the chords, including any passing chords, in larger grids that display the chord tone designations so you’re on top of every last detail. All of the progressions are demonstrated with simple rhythmic figures, which are also notated in the accompanying charts, and all examples are played over killer practice rhythm tracks powered by live recordings with bassist extraordinaire Steve Jenkins.

Put your time in with Guitar Lab: Blues Progressions and you’ll hear dramatic sonic changes busting out of your new bag of progressions, forms and voicings. Pull a few of these out at the next jam to freshen things up and you’ll see heads turning and players rushing the stage to jump in!