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Kristofer Dahl29th October 2009Awesome first lesson Marius: Super tasty playing, excellent spoken videos, and great topic. Welcome again to GMC! ![]()
Marius' intro thread can be found here.
Sinisa Cekic29th October 2009Great first lesson,welcome again ! ![]()
Sergio Dorado29th October 2009Awesome phrasing, man! Great you´re here in GMC
Alexiaden9329th October 2009Super cool playing ! For some reason this reminds me of "I Feel Good" by James Brown... ![]()
Sensible Jones29th October 2009Superb first lesson Marius!!! I love this Blues/Jazz crossover style!!! I'm really looking forward to more of your lesson s now!!!! ![]()
jafomatic29th October 2009Neither voodoo nor cake. It is quite delicious, however, and so all is forgiven!
can't wait to give it a whirl.
Marius Pop29th October 2009Thanks guys!
I was thinking what would be a nice first lesson and, as everybody knows me as a shredder, I thought that a nice blues tune with a jazzy feel would be a good start
I hope you can make some use of it! Feel free to ask me anything you want to know.
I am also thinking of a sequel ...
Vasilije Vukmirovic29th October 2009Very tasty! ![]()
Bogdan Radovic29th October 2009Excellent first lesson! Backing is so groovy! ![]()
playaxeman29th October 2009Great lesson Marius, keep them coming..
TreyDeschamp29th October 2009Man that was really refreshing! Awesome lesson and I'm with Bogdan on the backing track! Keep it up man ![]()
Muris Varajic29th October 2009Superb lesson and great tone Marius,
welcome once more! ![]()
MigeZ29th October 2009Great lesson man
Also a well made backing
Welcome to GMC!
Cheers mate ![]()
Kizaze4429th October 2009Great lesson! Getting out of the minor pentatonic is so refreshing!
Laszlo Boross29th October 2009Great first lesson Marius! Very tasty. ![]()
Adrian Figallo29th October 2009great lesson, and what a lovely les paul ![]()
glowshadow29th October 2009definitly a good start!
Pedja Simovic29th October 2009Great first lesson Marius, welcome once again !
Gerardo Siere29th October 2009Brillant lesson, welcome to GMC!
Marius Pop29th October 2009Very nice words from you, I am honored!
NoSkill29th October 2009Hey, I enjoyed that. This will be fun to learn! Thanks for producing it!
Jerry Arcidiacono29th October 2009Yeah!
Great first lesson indeed
I like the groove and the tone of both pickups!
Staffy29th October 2009Very tasty! Cool that You progressed in the solo from straight blues to a more & more jazzy approach.... and nice tone!!! :-)
Jesse29th October 2009this is epic man...
too bad I can't learn it since my account got canceld ...
This is so freaking gooooooooooood
Ivan Milenkovic29th October 2009Sounds great man, I dig your style, very cool! ![]()
JuanMV29th October 2009Great lesson. Great guitar. Great start.
midnight29th October 2009Awesome playing! Bookmarked.![]()
berko30th October 2009This is excellent man! Awesome tone and phrasing. Welcome ![]()
Gabriel Leopardi30th October 2009Amazing first lesson Marius. It's really nice to hear you playing!
Gary30th October 2009This rocks.. and swings!! fresh sounding compostion with a super sweet tone. Bravo!!
Marius Pop30th October 2009Thanks again guys, I am glad that you find my lesson tasteful
And I am glad that you like my tone too.
Stephane Lucarelli30th October 2009Great first lesson & awesome phrasing Marius.
Welcome once again! ![]()
Jesse30th October 2009that mixolydian sounds amazing my friend:D
Jose Mena31st October 2009Wow, tasty playing, phrasing and tone, Welcome Marius
I love this lesson Thanks ! - And welcome Marius! Looking forward to practice your lesson(s) ![]()
Zsolt Galambos1st November 2009Awesome first lesson! Welcome to GMC ![]()
veeeery good lesson
ItsMe4th November 2009Great phrasing and note choice.
Piotr Kaczor4th November 2009Welcome Marius! Awesome playing and lesson! ![]()
Marcus Siepen7th November 2009Great lesson, and welcome to GMC ![]()
Emir Hot16th November 2009Very nice playing. Welcome to GMC







Learn how to improvise over a standard blues song.
Hello GMC!
This lesson is about Blues! Or Jazz..? Or both...?
There are a couple of thing I wanted to show you in this leson:
1 - How to follow each part of a standard blues 1-4-5 progresion
2 - What you can play instead of the standard Minor Pentatonic.
3 - How you can use the Mixolydin mode to add a jazzy feel to a blues song.
The backing track follows a standard 1-4-5 blues progression.
The chords are A7, D7, E7
The tempo is 120
Time signature is 4/4
The structure is:
Part 1: Basic riff
Part 2: Improvisation in Major Penttonic and Major Penttonic add 3m
Part 3: Inprovisation in Mixolydian Mode and Mixolydian add 3m
I tabbed for you the chord progression, the riff and some licks I used in the improvisation.
Learn the scales, the licks, search GMC for other Pentatonic or Mixolydian licks and try to improvize!
Enjoy!
Please let me know what you think!
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