Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Minor Blues Foundations
Learn all five minor-blues positions, control the flat 5 between the 4th and 5th, and use movable power, minor-barre, and major-barre chords in natural-minor blues forms.
Each stage centers one musical target. Its activities stay grouped together so the course reads as a path through the fretboard, not a list of disconnected drills.
MechanicsScalesChordsProgressionsJams
- Stages
- 5
- Lessons
- 24
- Targets
- 82
Stage path
Minor Blues stays tonic-centered while each stage introduces the next of its five standard positions and applies it over natural-minor diatonic harmony with power and barre chords.
Establish Minor Blues Position 1, hear the flat 5 as tension between 4 and 5, and connect the tonic to movable i shapes.
4Tracks4Lessons7Targets
Map Position 1 with ascending, descending, and blue-note turns.
Connect a Position 1 scale tone to practical sixth-string chord shapes.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.
Add Position 2 around VII, introduce the major barre, and use the whole-step-below chord to drive phrases back to i.
5Tracks5Lessons13Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Start in Position 2, then connect earlier boxes with steps and blue-note turns.
Connect a Position 2 scale tone to practical sixth-string chord shapes.
Progression practice builds rhythmic chord changes and common song movement through real chord sequences.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.
Add Position 3 around the native minor v and use its darker pull to turn flat-5 phrases back toward tonic minor.
5Tracks5Lessons17Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Start in Position 3, then connect earlier boxes with steps and blue-note turns.
Connect a Position 3 scale tone to practical sixth-string chord shapes.
Progression practice builds rhythmic chord changes and common song movement through real chord sequences.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.
Add Position 4 around iv, then combine i, iv, and the native minor v in a dark twelve-bar natural-minor blues form.
5Tracks5Lessons21Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Start in Position 4, then connect earlier boxes with steps and blue-note turns.
Connect a Position 4 scale tone to practical sixth-string chord shapes.
Progression practice builds rhythmic chord changes and common song movement through real chord sequences.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.
Add Position 5 around III, complete the five-box map, and connect minor-blues tension to relative-major landings without borrowing a major V.
5Tracks5Lessons24Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Start in Position 5, then connect earlier boxes with steps and blue-note turns.
Connect a Position 5 scale tone to practical sixth-string chord shapes.
Progression practice builds rhythmic chord changes and common song movement through real chord sequences.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.