Easy Electric Songs

Blues scale? No, i've been looking at the pentatonics (hoping to piece together the solo of Christy Moore's 'Ride On' which happens around the 9th fret) but a link to any good blues scale page would be appreciated...

also try this

-------------------------1-4------|----------4-6-7---------- -------------------------------

---------------------1-4----------|------4-6---------------- -------------------------------

---------------1-3-4--------------|----5-------------------- -------------------------------

-----------1-3--------------------|------------------------- ------------------------------

-----1-2-3------------------------|------------------------- ------------------------------

-1-4------------------------------|------------------------- ------------------------------

on the third string you can slide up .  The root then lies in the 2nd string (6), and you have a new position to play in.  This higher position is where people mostly play lead. 

it is easy to get into this higher position by sliding up on the third string with your 3rd finger.  then switch to the index finger to play the "4" on the 2nd string, 3rd finger on "6, same for the first string. 

You can actually finger this any way you want.  I am very used to using my pinky, but not everyone else is...you can play without the pinky and that is still acceptable, it's actually more common to avoid the pinky completely, but that will just lead to limitations in the future.

Just remember that you can play this scale in **any position** in fact, i encourage playing this in higher posiiton because the frets are closer together and they are easier to play...

This is the most important scale to use if you want to jam on rock tunes!!!

AC DC Back in black

Its a simple song just really 3 chords and a few tabs

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Hey the scale pattern that LX is reffering to is a E minor pentatonic scale pattern. With the root note in the 1 position on the 6th string. Thus his pattern would be in the key of F. I believe when useing pentatonic scales the blues are played with minor scales.
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I'm not really sure what you mean in your last sentence.  But if you are saying that the minor pentatonic scale works well over the blues, you are right.

The blues scales is very similar to the minor pentatonic.  The difference is the added flat 5th or "blue note."

earlier in this thread I said that you can play this scale anywhere on the neck.  What I entabulated was the F-blues scale, but if you take that same scale and move everything up, you can play the scale in any key.

If you want to play in A minor, like the solo from stairway to heaven, place the first note of the scale on the fifth fret of the 6th string

If you want to play in B minor, like the solo from Money (floyd), do the same on the 7th fret.

Both those solos, countless others and tons of rock leads are almost completely based in blues/minor pentatonic scale.

mastering that scale can get you pretty far in your eartraining and ease of learning leads.  Even hard leads end up making a lot of sense.

paranoid - black sabbath

heart full of soul - yardbyrds

born to be wild - steppenwolf

redhouse - hendrix

sunshine of your love - cream

almost anything by canned heat,buddy holly or the rolling stones' voodoo lounge album

these are all pretty easy and pretty darn cool. Good luck and learn and practice improvising your scales, they will be very valuable!

                                     - Mike

"Nobody paints by ear so why would I play guitar by sight?"