Having looked at the minor pentatonic scale last month, this issue we’re moving on to its close relative, the blues scale. We say ‘close relative’ because the two scales are almost identical - just ...

Australian fusion guitarist Frank Gambale plays a 12 bar blues solo on the video. We transcribe and analyse it below. Bars 1-3: Frank begins simply with B minor blues scale (B D E F F# A), but in bar ...