Lesson 10 - Blues Shuffle In E

Lesson Sample

Lyle: In the last lesson you learned a Blues Shuffle in G. Let's transpose what you learned to the key of E, down three frets. Here's your new jam track and chord chart:

jam track - Blues Shuffle in E

chord chart


Lyle: You'll use the 1 - 4 - 5 chords in E for this jam. Here's a way I suggest you learn to play them:

chords

chords


Lyle: These are open position dominant chords. The B7 was a tough one for me when I was a beginner.

Terry: Yeah.....it's a great sounding chord, down low on the neck which allows you to play a B7 without having to do a bar chord.

Lyle: Try setting your electric to either a clean or slightly overdriven sound, a vintage tone.

Lyle: If you're going to learn to jam, you have to learn and practice playing a good rhythm riff. Here's rhythm riff 1 using the same muted up strum technique as you learned in Lesson #9:

rhythm riff 1 in E


rhythm riff 1

Lyle: Now try playing rhythm riff 1 along to the looping jam track.

Lyle: Here's the other rhythm riff pattern to try in this new key:

rhythm riff 2

rhythm riff 2 in E

Morrie: Alternate up and down strokes ?

Lyle: All down strokes for rhythm riff 2.

Lyle: Ready to learn a couple solos I made for this jam track?

blaise: Heck yea!

Lyle: For a blues in E jam like you have here, the E major pentatonic and E minor pentatonic scales are your best choices of scales to use while improvising:

Emaj pentatonic

Lyle: Here's is the popular E minor pentatonic:

Em pentatonic