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Blues Hall of Fame inductee Charlie Musselwhite, guitar detail, performs onstage at Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine on January 17, 2023 in Malibu, California.

The Mixolydian Blues Scale Could Be the Most Useful Scale of All

By Guitar Player Staff last updated

This scale reigns supreme as the chief source for carving those major/minor blues-based licks that sound so good over dominant 7th chords

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Joe Bonamassa "Mind's Eye" music video still

Watch Joe Bonamassa’s Surreal "Mind's Eye" Music Video

By Rod Brakes published

Video This trippy collage accompanies the latest single from the blues phenom’s ‘Time Clocks’ album.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Expand Your Blues Vocabulary With These Essential Tunings, Scales and Chords

By Guitar Player Staff published

No guitarist should miss out on these blues staples.

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B.B. King performing at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on 6 July, 1969

Blues Turnarounds (Part 1)

By Phil Capone last updated

How to play soulful, harmonically effective melodies over the last four bars of a blues progression in the styles of the genre’s greatest players.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan performing at First City in New York City on July 7, 1983.

Blues Turnarounds (Part 2)

By Phil Capone published

How to play soulful, harmonically effective melodies over the last four bars of a blues progression in the styles of the genre’s greatest players.

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