Guitar lessons: The idea of a slow blues guitar jam inspires a mixture of joy, dread and cynical rolling of the eyes among us players. Often these situations involve a minimal, simple backing, with ...

GWM585 Joe Bonamassa slow blues lesson Bars 5 and 6 are played over F7, and in this example I blend the notes of an F7 arpeggio (F, A, C, Eb) with those of C major and minor pentatonic.

You can even extend this way of thinking by playing or implying the B Minor Blues scale (B-D-E-F-F#-A; F is the blues note) ...