The minor pentatonic scale is a fantastic scale to jam over a 12-bar blues with, but by adding a few more notes you can infuse your blues with the slick sounds of virtuoso blues-meisters such as Joe ...

The final two bars of a 12-bar blues are known as a ‘turnaround’. This is the point that we prepare to go back to the start of the loop and start the next phase of the solo. Most blues players have a ...

Somewhere in the lyrics of Rory Gallagher and Bill Withers and standards made famous by Willie Dixon and Albert King, I heard the work of a salvage operation set to 12-bar blues.