The Blues Lead Fast Track
Make more progress soloing in 8 weeks than you have in months or even years.
COURSE OVERVIEW
The Blues Lead Fast Track
The Blues Lead Fast Track is an 8-week guided programme to help you learn to improvise with confidence and freedom, and craft beautiful solos in the style of your blues guitar heroes.
You’ll have my full and personalised support as you go through the programme, which aims to help you make more progress improvising in 8 weeks than you have in years.
And you’ll do all of this as part of a supportive community of blues guitarists just like you.
Here’s just some of what you’ll learn:
✅ How to break out of the first and second shapes of the minor pentatonic scale, and solo with freedom all over the fretboard
✅ Ways to use techniques and phrasing to make even 3 or 4 notes sound like a complete solo
✅ How to move beyond the minor pentatonic scale, and craft beautiful licks using the major pentatonic scale
✅ Methods that will have you enjoying practicing more than you have in years, with the support and accountability you need to get results
✅ How to play the changes, so you can craft beautiful and melodic improvisations that follow the chord progression you’re playing over
✅ The techniques and tricks used by blues guitarists like B.B. King, Albert King, Peter Green, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton
You’ll find over 55 lessons and over 10 hours of in-depth instructional videos inside the Fast Track. Every lesson contains a detailed video and text breakdown, along with tabs, backing tracks and scale and chord diagrams.
Stop playing the same handful of licks and learn how to create magic with the minor pentatonic scale. During the first 2 weeks of the programme, you’ll learn:
- How to master techniques like bending, slides and double stops
- Ways of easily connecting pentatonic shapes, so you can break out of shapes 1 & 2 and move freely all over the fretboard
- The intervals in the minor pentatonic scale, and how you can create beautiful licks that manipulate tension and resolution by targeting each of the notes in the scale
- How to create beautiful phrases from scratch – without having to memorise hundreds of licks
In these first weeks, you’ll learn exactly what you need to create beautiful blues solos. No more mechanical solos that sound like you’re just playing up and down scales.
Weeks 3 & 4 - Solo like the pros
There’s nothing worse than playing a solo that sounds just like a random collection of licks. In weeks 3 and 4 you’ll learn the soloing frameworks that the pros use to create amazing and engaging solos, every single time. Here’s what we’ll cover:
- How to solo for minutes on end without sounding boring or repetitive
- A soloing framework you can use to build momentum and create excitement, every time you improvise
- Ways of using melodic and rhythmic motifs to create magic from simple phrasings
- The key mistakes you’re making which are killing the vibe of your solos and making them sound like just a bunch of licks
Weeks 5 & 6 - Mix in the major
Your blues guitar playing will come to life when you move beyond the minor pentatonic scale.
To add warmth to your lead playing and recreate the amazing vibe of players like B.B. King, Peter Green, Eric Clapton and many others, you need to nail the major pentatonic scale. And that’s exactly what we’ll cover in weeks 5 & 6:
- Learn what the major pentatonic scale is, and how it differs from the minor pentatonic
- Understand how you can easily mix the major pentatonic into your playing, all over the fretboard
- The mistakes that stop guitarists from soloing with the major pentatonic scale
- Master the B.B. King Box and play like the King of the Blues!
Weeks 7 & 8 - Play the changes
Learning to play the changes is one of the best ways of immediately giving your playing a sweet and melodic feeling.
It’s also a challenging topic that a lot of guitarists struggle to learn and then use in their solos.
In the final 2 weeks of the programme we’ll break this challenge down step by step so you can start playing the changes straight away. Here’s what we’ll cover:
- How you can transform your solos with just a single note
- The structure of the minor blues, and how to play the changes over the progression
- The structure of the major blues, and how to play the changes over the progression
- Soloing frameworks for nailing the changes every time you play
Course Includes
- 6 Lessons
