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Rob Garland grew up in England, worked in a diverse array of bands and later played hundreds of gigs at festivals and clubs in the U.S. with his band The Blue Monks, opening for artists such as B.B. King, Booker T. and Chuck Berry. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he continues to write and record his original music, ranging from jazz-fusion instrumentals to acoustic vocal songs, available to stream/download. He regularly performs at clubs such as The Baked Potato, Alva’s ... (more) Rob currently offers 49 guitar lessons at JamPlay, with 49 intermediate lessons.
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Finding yourself in a pentatonic rut? Or maybe you have a few pentatonic scales under your fingers but you don't know quite what to do with them. Rob Garland offers the tools you need to enhance your solos within blues-style playing!
Rob Garland introduces us to his new course, 'Essential Blues Lead Concepts'!
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Before we dive into the blues, Rob gives us a quick lesson on the chords we will be using throughout this course by referencing CAGED Chords.
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Now that we are all freshened up with our CAGED Chords, let's now look at the major pentatonic scale and how we will apply this scale to the blues.
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In this lesson, we take a look at how we will incorporate the pentatonic scale into the 12 bar blues!
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Ready for the next tool for your blues toolbox? Rob runs through the minor pentatonic scale and how putting it over the IV chord is going to us three chord tones in the IV chord.
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In this lesson, let us take all that knowledge we acquired about the major and minor pentatonic in the previous lessons and put them together!
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Now that we have the I & IV chords under our fingers let's jump into the final chord, the V chord.
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In this lesson, we move away from the pentatonic scale a bit and focus on targeting some chord tones by looking at the chord voicings within the I, IV & V chords.
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Now that we have some chord tones identified, let's get some arpeggios under our fingers.
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Let's take the ideas from the previous lesson and expand on them. Rob takes the arpeggios we have just learned and shows us how to turn them into phrases!
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In this lesson, Rob introduces us to the Mixolydian mode and how this scale is a great choice for blues-based licks.
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We have our A Mixolydian mode under our fingers, now what? In this lesson, Rob shows us how to use it to play over the I chord of the blues!
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Moving on to the IV chord, Rob shows us how we will be using the Dorian mode over this chord.
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Taking the idea from the previous lesson we are just simply going to take it from the 5th position to the 9th position.
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Ready for another scale for your toolbox? Rob introduces us to what he refers to as a "mini-scale" - The Mixo Pentatonic.
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We've covered a lot of ground when it comes to dominating 7 blues but now we are going to switch gears and look at the minor blues and the scales that they are comprised of.
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In this lesson, we are going to unpack the B minor blues form.
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We shift up to the 9th position in the B minor blues form in this lesson, Rob also discusses the Albert King Box.
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Ready to kick things up a notch? Rob dives into a more complex chord progression based on Stormy Monday-style blues.
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Let's take the form from the previous lesson and move that one up to the 7th position, Rob also incorporates the B.B. King box!
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Rob discusses the always fun to play, 8-bar blues in the 5th position for this lesson, noting that it has a ragtime feel to it and we have to hone in on targeting those chord tones!
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Taking everything we just got under our fingers in the previous lesson, we move it on up to the 8th position.
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Rob introduces us to Fusion Blues for this lesson, focusing on 9sus4 chords we are going to get some dreamy sounds!
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Are you ready for the final jam for this course? Rob discusses the Jazz Blues form in the key of B-flat.
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In this final lesson, Rob takes the Jazz Blues form we just learned and moves it up the neck to the 11th position, and throws in the B.B. King box for that extra flair!
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Some guitar players when playing the Blues tend to get stuck in the same handful of barre chord shapes. If you've found yourself in this group you've found the right course to help you leap over that hurdle! In this expansive series, Rob Garland will help you unlock the "cage" in your playing so you'll have the ability to play inventive chords all over the neck making it easier to improvise in real-world situations!
Rob introduces us to 'Essential Blues Chord Voicings'!
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For this first lesson, let's grab our guitar as Rob gives us an outline of the Caged System focusing in on the dominant 7th chords.
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Now let's take that same idea and just implement the concept to a different chord, the G7 chord.
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Now that we have unlocked the cage, lets put it to use within the 12 Bar Blues!
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In this lesson, Rob takes the same concepts from the previous lesson and applies them to a different position on the neck.
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We move to the key of A7 for this lesson, where Rob breaks down this 12-Bar Blues example with a quick funky four.
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Taking the concept for the previous lesson we move to a different position as well as adding a 9th to our dominant 7th chords.
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Let's move on to some minor blues, Rob starts us off by unlocking with cage chords for minor chords in the key of A minor.
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Now that we have the caged minor 7th chords under our fingers let's apply them to a minor blues!
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Let's take the concepts from the previous lesson and build on that a bit by adding some extensions.
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We continue working on the B minor 7 12-Bar blues, but we move to a different position on the neck with different chord shapes.
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Rob walks us through a B flat 13 Blues with a funky shuffle tone.
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Let's build upon what we learned from the previous lesson and add another component to our music toolbox with Tritone substitutions.
For this lesson, Rob talks us through a slow blues, with the form based on the style of T-Bone Walker's Stormy Monday.
Rob gives us some real-world advice when it comes to playing in a jam session as we take everything we learned in the last two lessons and move it to a different position on the neck.
For this lesson, we look at the major 7th chords as we unlock the cage once more.
In this lesson, we'll dive into the 8-bar blues which has some roots in the rag-time tradition.
With the 8-bar blues form in C under our fingers let's incorporate some of our CAGED knowledge at the 5th position.
Let's again take everything we learned in the previous two lessons and apply it to a different position on the neck. Rob moves us up to the 10th position.
Rob gives us some tips on how to use a diminished chord to lead us from one chord to another.
For this lesson, Rob dives into a Bb 12-Bar jazz blues in the 6th position!
We have the jazz blues chords under our fingers lets move them down the neck to learn them in a different position!
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In this lesson, Rob talks about suspended chords that can be used to produce a jazz-rock or fusion sound.
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For the last lesson of this course, Rob expands on the Fusion Blues chords we just learned in the previous lesson by teaching an extension for these chords.
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