Part 1 of 2 videos showing how to escape the prison of the Minor Pentatonic scale when playing Blues. This is one of the major things which will differentiate your playing from that of the amateurs.

00:00 Intro: are you this person at the Blues jam?
00:54 Make a simple lick sound pro.
01:27 Playing the minor pentatonic scale in different ways, adding bends and slides, changing position.
02:25 Sweetening the 3rd. This is probably the biggest difference between amateur and pro Blues players.
03:35 Avoiding clashing notes, add extra notes to the scale.
05:25 Ways to approach a note.