Bluesy Arpeggios - Intermediate

Hey GMCers! This new lesson is about the coolest (in my humble opinion) rock-country-blues scale !

Much lessons is made about the blues and pentatonic scales for creating cool bluesy solos. Minor pentatonic ,Major pentatonic ,Blues scale,again Minor pent., then Major, blues, mix a bit... and sometimes sounds.. -bored!

But here’s another scale that’s useful for making richest solos: the Mixolydian scale. I dont want talk much about this scale,you have enough lessions here about it,just to notice how the notes in each Mixolydian scale contain the arpeggios, or chord tones, for chords in the A blues. For example, the first measure would be an A7, if you were playing chords.

So, the arpeggio notes for A7 are A, C#, E, and G. Adding D and you have pentatonic of course :)
When you make solo with the this scale, you want to make sure the strong beats tend to use the notes A, C#, E, and G - the tones of the A7 chord. So what is the point?! If the passing tones from the A Mixolydian scale fall on the strong beats, your playing won’t sound like the blues. :)

Ok folks,here is example and chord progresion:
A7,D7,E7
4/4,tempo 105bpm..

But,let's see this interesting example:
Let’s say you are playing this chords progression: A, G, and D. All of these chords are in the key of D major. What dominant 7th chord goes with the key of D major?

Yes, A7. So you can play an A Mixolydian scale on top of this progression. Sounds less bluesy?

Have fun..

SC