Beginner Guitar Lessons: Guitar Lesson 5

1. Skillshare intro lesson 5: welcome to beginner guitar lessons. Less than five. My name is, Chris wrote, but I'm the founder of the guitar training camp. If you've never played guitar before or you're a beginner looking to improve your skills than my beginner guitar lessons are for you, this course is going to be 10 lessons in total. I will be releasing each lesson one at a time, so you have the time needed toe work on and learn the material in each lesson. If you like the 1st 5 lessons and you want the next five lessons, make sure you sign up is one of my students. Here's some clips of what you'll be learning in less than five, right? So open is D He is on the whole step on the second, Fred. We have S E and F are always 1/2 step apart in this first exercise. Number one, we're taking a look at the available natural notes on the fourth string. 12 and 34 and then on the end of four, we're gonna strung up way build that way. Three way, exercising them before it's very similar to exercise number three, except we're not gonna be building the power cords off the six string. We're gonna move it over and build the power cords off the fifth string. I think this lesson I'm going to show you how to play a blues scale. The scale you're going to learn is the main pattern use for the blues. You will be able to use it in all 12 keys. Let's take a look at this blues scale. Some information about May I have a bachelors of music degree from Berklee College of Music , and I've been teaching guitar full time for more than 18 years. I've told more than 30,000 private guitar lessons, so I'm very experienced with what students need to get started on guitar. For more details about the course, check out the course description. I look forward to seeing you inside the course. 2. Notes on the 4th string: thing in this lesson, you're going to be learning the notes on the D string, which is also called your fourth string. Let's take a look at the notes. All right. The notes on your D string. This is your D string, right? Here it is. Your fourth string, you think? 1234 or e A D g b. We're gonna be cut string here on the fourth string, and that is an open D. Right? So open is d He is on the whole step on the second, Fred, we have f e and f are always 1/2 step apart because e f and a whole step the G whole steptoe A When friends seven, we're going to be on front number nine and B and C are always 1/2 step apart. So C is gonna be on the 10th friend and then D is gonna be a whole step above that. So one more time it gives d e half g a be seen back to D. If you want to continue up and go D e f g A B disk, Storen is only has 21 for it, so I can't get to see it there. That's perfectly fine. I would suggest doing that. I typically just tell students, Just go up to the 12th fret But it's certainly fun to go up to see how how far up you can go. And you also want to go backwards. You don't only want to just go forward. You want Tokyo be able go D C the a g f e d go forwards and backwards up the neck. Now let's go ahead and take a look at the sharps on that string The Sharps going up the fourth string. We'll start here on the first fret with D Sharp and then we're gonna skip TNF and go up to F sharp on the fourth Fret way Have g sharp right here on the six friend. And we have a b a sharp here on the guess that would be the eighth fret and then we're gonna have C sharp right up here on the 11th friend who more time d shar f sh r g sharp, a sharp and C sharp that was Go ahead and take a look at the flats going down the neck. So the flats going down the neck, right? Here's d. So we're gonna start with D Flat here on all the 11th fret, and then we're gonna get out here. We're gonna skip C and B and get down to be flattened on the eighth. Fret we're going to skip a and play a flat. Um, here's G So if we needed to flat that, we would get down here G flat. Uh, here's F and E So we're gonna flat this e and play an E flat right here on the first Fret one more time. We have D flat, B flat, a flat, G flat. Andy Flynn. Those are the notes on your fourth string or your D string. Every time you learn a new string, make sure you go back and review the previous strings that you've already learned. It will only take a couple of minutes, and the repetition will greatly help you remember the notes on the neck 3. Sight reading on the 4th string: in this lesson, you're going to be reading the natural notes on your fourth string in this first exercise. Number one, we're taking a look at the available natural notes on the fourth string. This is your fourth string your D String E a d three natural notes that you're going to be reading in position down here, it's open D, which is Ah, it's the note that's below the staff. You can see it there in measure number one in measure number two. The note that is on the first line is an E, which is on fourth string. Second fret. I would call it 42 men ng fourth string second fret eso that's e. And if you remember, the lines on the staff dio e g b d f where every good boy does fine. And then in the third measure we have an app which is in the first space. If you remember the space nittsuko f a ce starting from the bottom up. That's why the that note is an F in the third measure and then in the fourth measure, we just haven't even these air, all whole notes, So each one is you're supposed to play it. Let it ring for four beats or four foot taps, so I will go ahead and play this exercise. 12 34234234234234 Now I will go ahead and play again and say The note says I play it because Dean 34 e 3/4 And after 234 and then e 234 I would play it one more time with me counting along. 1234 12312342341234 That's how you play exercise one. Taking a look at this exercise. Number two Looks like we have all half notes and it's still gonna be the notes D, E and F, so I will go ahead and play through this. The first measure. It's gonna be an E for two beats and then a D for two beats. Measure number two. We have an after for two beats, then an E for two beats, then a measure number three. We have an E for two beats and then a D comes in on beat number three for the three and four. And in the last measure we have an F for two beats and then a D for two beats, so I will go ahead and play the play. That and feel free to play along with me. 12 34 in Dean and Dean. And now I will play it again and count along. Just make sure you understand the timing it's going to go. 34 1234123412341234 That's how you play the second exercise for exercise number three. As you can see, it's four measures. They're all quarter notes. Ah, quarter note is one beat. So every time you tap your foot in 44 that's gonna be 1/4 note. All right, so in the first measure, we have goes f have seen on D on the fourth beat because have f e d. Then in the second measure, it's gonna go e have d e one more time e f d e In In the fourth measure, we start with a d on beat number one because d f d e more time de half e in the last measure. It's going to go f d e. Have you don't have to sing him. It's kind of weird. Not Teoh. Um, if I don't see the notes, it sounds like, uh the, uh sounds a little strange. So, uh, you know, I'm seeing what? The way I'm saying? It was so close to the pitch. Anyways, um, you know, I just had a singing the notes s. So I'm gonna go ahead and play through that nice and slow. It's going to go. 12 34 and all right, there's no right or wrong speed to do here so you can go really slow. You can You can dio you know, at the top of the page. You know, if you look at the pdf, it shows up. Uh huh. Quarter note. Eagles 120 beats. But you can put it down to 60. You know, you could be going kind of go whatever speed you need to. So you can look at the next note, recognize what it is, and then figure out where to play and then play. So I would definitely go nice and slow and then, you know, worry about speeding it up, the better you get at reading. And that was exercised. Number three in this exercise number four, I put in a mixture of eighth notes and quarter notes. I would say this is considerably harder to play than the first couple. Eso Let's just take it. Measure by measure. The first measure. We have 2/8 notes on beat number one and it gives d have for being number two. We just come in on 1/4 note on E for B number three. It goes F d on account that three. And then on the last bit of four. We haven't either 1/4. So I put played That measure would dio we go d f e f d e In timing wise would go one and 23 and four. All right, now let's take a look at the second measure. Uh, for the 1st 3 beats, we have eighth notes, so we have 6/8 notes in a row, followed up by 1/4 note on beat number four. It's gonna go d E f e f d m, and you account that one and two and three and four for a measure number three looks like we have 4/8 notes in a row. And then we have ah, half no coming in on the downbeat of three. So it's gonna you're gonna play like this. D have have the dean timing wise, your going one and two and 34 for the last measure. Looks like we have 2/4 notes that I'm beat number 3 to 8 notes and then 1/4 note at the end on beat number four. It's gonna go e f d e have timing wise. It goes 123 and four. Now I'm gonna go ahead and play through the whole exercise nice and slow. 34 way. And that's how you read the natural notes on your fourth string. When you practice sight reading, make sure you go slowly and accurately. Just take your time and figure out what each note is and then play it. It could be very frustrating trying to read in time. When you don't know the notes very well, I just work through each measure one note at a time. Eventually, you will look at a note and know what the note is and where it's played. Sight reading is a skill that takes a lot of practice and patients, so just take your time and try to have fun with it. 4. Rhythm 3: in this lesson, you're going to be strumming your third rhythm. These rhythms will increasingly get a little harder and introduce new rhythms. Let's take a look at rhythm number three for exercise number one and rhythm number three. We're gonna be starting with an accord. Looks just like this. And for the first measure, we start on beat number one. We start with 1/4 note. So you just gonna come down on one beat? Number two? We have to eighth notes It's gonna go to and should be following your foot. If you're tapping to be going 12 and for being number three, it's just 1/4 notes. You just strum down on three for being number four. We have 2/8 notes, so we're gonna struck down on four up on and we don't play anything on the downbeat of one because the end of four is tied into the downbeat of one going into the second measure. So we're gonna go for and skip one come up on the end of one, Then it's 1/4 note on two, and then it is 1/4 note on three ways from down. We're gonna get from down on four and then up on the end of So if I put that together is consent. Lake 12 and 34 and skip one and 234 and one more time. 12 and 34 and skip one and 234 And that is how you strum exercise number one for exercise number two. What I did is I kept the exact same rhythm, but I changed cords going into the second measure. So we're gonna start with an Accord, Ugo. 12 and 34 And then on the end of four, we're going to strum up on play D chord and then skip one and two, 34 And so one more time is gonna go 12 and 34 and 1234 So the hardest part is obviously going to be going for beat. Number four, we're going down on a and they were coming up on a D. So, you know, you just just go slow. You can get 12 and 34 take your time, and I understand that transition's gonna be kind of tough, but just do it slow and slow to speed it up. So one more time it's going to sound like 12 and 34 and one in 234 That was how you play exercise number two. That was rhythm three. I would go back and review the other rhythms as well. If I was interested in practicing rhythm, I would practice all of the rhythms at once by skipping through the lessons just for the rhythms. I think that would make a nice little rhythm practice session. 5. Strum this open chord progression 1: this'll s and I'm going to give you a chord progression to strum using the cords you've learned in this lesson and my previous lessons. I will also provide you with the guitar tablature showing you the timing and the strumming for the chord progression. Now let's get to strumming In this first exercise, we have four measures and we're gonna be strumming through. We're gonna be streaming through a G chord going to a C chord and the d chord on G court For this chord progression, they're all quarter notes. So it is going to sound like this. You're basically gonna strum four times per measure. Eso Here we g 012 34 You could play G four times transition. Teoh do that one more time. 34 If you have trouble going between cords, going from G to C is not an easy transition. They're probably the two most popular are two most popular and or most used chords on the guitar. But, boy, they're not easy to go between. There's different ways to kind of go and easier go between those chords, but you need to practice those transitions. And that's what this open court progression is for is so that you're practicing the transitions between the cords and working on your muscle memory. So don't feel bad if it takes, you know, a couple of seconds to get from one chord the next. You know, that's life. Just set up your cord, going get the next chord, strumming four times. Get the next one is gonna take a lot of lot of repetition to get these transitions down. So, you know, go ahead and do it slowly and then increase as you're able to get there quicker and quicker . And that is how you play exercise number one and exercise number two. Once again, we have four measures and the courts are going to be e e O C Major. And to do any major chord, if you're not familiar with it, you're gonna put your second finger on 52. Meaning the fifth string second friend, you're gonna put your third finger on 42 4th string second friend. Then you're gonna put your first finger on the third string first friend G sharp. Right There you go from all six strings. All right, So the first court isn't he? That is going to go to sea G on the d chord. They're all quarter notes, just like in the first exercise. So you just gonna strum four of them and then go to the next chord? Look how Countess. In 12 34123 they were going to r C Chord. We build that three g 234 Go ahead, play through it one more time. 12343 33 That's how you strum through exercise number two. All right. For exercise number three, we have four bar chord progression. It's gonna go G on e minor. Any minor is the same as the e major chord that we just take this first finger off and play the open G. That's what e minor chord looks and sounds like we have seen. D I'm gonna count us in. Let's go ahead and play it. 12 34 Going T minor. Three. Teoh three. I'll go ahead and play again. 1234 Dio. That's how you play exercise number three. Playing a chord progression can be tough because your fingers may not be able to grab the cords quick enough to stay in time, you're going to need to practice court transitions over and over until your hand has the muscle memory so accurately play the court. Students always want to know what. How long is that gonna take? I tell them that it really varies from student to student. You're gonna have to play certain court transitions hundreds, if not thousands of time to get them down. Don't let that discourage you, though. Just understand it may take a while and take the pressure off yourself. I find that the best way to practice cords is to look up the cords to some of my favorite songs and try to play them. The practice seems a lot more fun when you're playing a song that you like. 6. Strum this open chord progression 1 backing track: - Thanks . No. 7. How to play a power chord: playing a power cord is one of the most important things you're ever going to learn on the guitar. This court is essential if you want to play rock, blues, metal, pop, country and almost any other genre of music. It consists of only the root and the fifth of the court. In this lesson, I will show you a couple of different variations of the power cord. Let's take a look at how to play. It's the first. We're taking a look here at this first exercise, we have three different power chords. We have an e power court, a power cord and a deep power cord. A power cord is it's a to know cord or possibly a three. No cord that has the root of the cord. If I'm playing an E power court, have an E six string open and then I have a perfect fifth above it, which is a bee. When I say a perfect fifth, I mean, basically going up a scale like raining. So a perfect fifth is from here to here, the interval of a perfect fifth. So I'm playing just in e one, the six string open and then on the fifth string. Second fret of B eso those two notes Creative power cord on the exercise, says E five. That's that. That's an E five power chord. What that means is you're playing the No. E and then 1/5 above it. That's where they get the name E five. So that's an E and the fifth. So if I play just those two, it's a whole note. I'm gonna go 13 or s. So what you want to do is you want to make sure that you're only playing those two strings you don't going. It's gonna sound loud, noisy. So you want to make sure what I do with my first finger when I'm playing this be. I make sure it's laying down kind of flat, so it's touching strings three and four. So even if I go past string for past the fifth string gets muted out by the my finger laying down my first finger. There's a lot of muting knickers on. I use these fingers from UT. It's like if I need to stop, you know I'll play the power cord on a mute with usually both hands. One hand should do it but I tend to be over careful and I over mute with model hands at same time. All right, so let's go ahead and play this first exercise. We're starting with the e power cord 34 section Second measure we're going to on a power cord. You're basically taking, uh, this power court and moving it over. We're playing the fifth String Open, which is in a and then this e here on the fourth string. Second fret. So when I play those together, I'm just playing the notes A and that is an a five power chord. Eso What I want to do is I don't want to hit the six string, so I usually let my thumb touch the six string. So even if I hit it, it's kind of just getting muted out, and that gets kind of really mixed in with the power forward and all the distortion, and you don't even really hear it. It's because you don't want to hear that open e. It's not the end of the world since it is part of the A five power chord. But I like it to keep it nice and clean. It's nice and tight and clean, meting out the six string. So that measure would be, 034 And then in the next measure, we're going to a D five power courts were just moving it over. We'll have the fourth string open. We're gonna play this a on the third string second fresh, and that is a D five power. So you're gonna play going way 30 I'm gonna play through the exercise again. Couch in 12 34 three. And that's how you play the power court exercise number one for exercise number two. It's any two measures. We have an e N E five power chord going to an 85 power chord. But if you notice there's three notes, I wanted to make sure that you understood that it could just be a to note it could be. Then he and the ruin in the fifth. But a lot of times you end up adding the route on top. Be so it's still a to note chord. You know we have to ease. It's an honor that we have the E on the six train this year. It sounds a little thicker than just to know tons of. If you have a choice, it's up to you whether you want to use it to no power cord or three, they sound almost identical. So this exercise is going to be played like this 34 Now I'm choosing to just use my one finger to bar across the second fret here on strings four and five. You could use individual fingers if you want it like this. The reason I use this finger is just I've gotten used to it. I allows me to kind of let my first finger lay across the other strings, helps mute mute out the other strings. But that's just how I like to do it. And that was how you play Exercise number two and exercise number three. What we have here is we're taking this this e five power chord, taking it and then we're moving it up. So if I move it up the neck, I end up having to use my first finger here for where I was getting the e open. But if I move it up, I end up having to use my first finger here. So in the first measure, we start with a five power chord. So we're gonna put our first finger on the six string fifth fret, which is a and we're gonna put our third finger on the fifth string seven threat right here on this and and that is an a five power chord and playing a and And if I play that measure , I'm just gonna go 123 more. And then in the second measure, what I do is I had my pinky. I mean, some people plant like this. Oddly enough, I don't. I use my first finger down here for E i du bar my first finger a lot, but I never got into using, you know, my third finger for barring these two notes here. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I just don't do that. I use separate fingers from playing bar chords so much, you know, I got used to use in my third finger and my fourth finger. So for the second measure, we're gonna play this a this e we're gonna put our pinky on the fourth String seven threat and that a It looks like this. This is kind of like the smaller power court and When we add the route on top, it's a It's a fatter power. All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and play that exercise. 123434 34 And that's how you play exercise number three for exercising them before it's very similar to exercise number three, except we're not gonna be building the power cords off the six string. We're gonna move it over and build the power cords off the fifth string. So we're starting with a deep power cord, and we're gonna play that by putting our first finger on the fifth string Fifth fret on the no Dean right here. They were gonna take our third finger and put it on the be the fourth string seventh fret which is a right there. So to do a deep power cord, we have a D in a one in 515 All right, so to play that measure just gonna be 034 men in the second measure, we have the three finger version. Where you gonna drop the pinky? You're gonna double the root here. Gonna play D here, Play this octave right here. This this d right here. We're gonna play d A d Suppose the word dad measures go sound like 3434 Moving. Moving this Moving this around back and forth is really, really common for doing this kind of thing, that kind of thing, that kind of rock shuffle or bluesy shuffle. It's very common to be you need to practice moving this all around eso you want. Oh, what I tell people to do is just sit there and practise it all over the place, practice up and down the same string and then move it over this way. Just move it all around. Don't even worry about what it sounds like that, like that wasn't in any particular key or anything. Because what's going what you gonna find is that when you move your finger up and down your hand up and down, you find this finger isn't gonna want to cooperate. It's gonna want to stretch out, or it's so you have to train yourself. This finger has to learn how to follow along with this finger and stay in the right proportion because up here it's a lot skinnier appear the threats are closer than down here . You have to train your hand as you're moving down the neck to stretch your hands out a little bit to fit the next set of frets. So I just suggest just hang around a lot of make some noise thing. Just hang around. You may recognize that rift. Um, it power courts are a lot of fun. Um, and that was how you play exercise and number four. All right. And exercise number five, What I'm doing. Instead of playing power court on the six string or the festering, you can actually move it over and do the route off. The fourth string thing was common in a lot of eighties rock music. So what I'm doing here is I'm playing the note f here on the fourth string. Third fret, then I'm you know, this figures going up two strings and over are perfect. And I'm playing It would be the note. Cease. We have a nephew and a C m. So for that measure, it's going to go. It's just a whole notes audio. And then in the second measure, what we do is you can't put this pinky right here. That's the interval of 1/7 Way. Need the octave. We need a root root so we can't put it here. The pinky has to go appear upon with six friends. So it sounds like I'm just gonna be played for, so I'll go ahead and play that exercise again. Three for three. That's how you play exercise number five. And that is how you play the power cord. 8. How to play the blues scale: I think this lesson I'm going to show you how to play a blues scale. The scale you're going to learn is the main pattern use for the blues. You will be able to use it in all 12 keys. Let's take a look at this blues scale. Ah, blue scale is going to be the same as the minor pentatonic scale, but we're gonna add in a flat five or a minor fifth. So, um, here is how you play and a minor pentatonic. The reason I say it's in a because this is the note A here. If I played it down here, BG if I started right here on C B a c minor pentatonic scale. So I'm gonna start right here on a and what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to look at the pdf for this. It will help you out when, as I'm going through, if you like, I don't know what a flat third is or fourth or flat. Seventh. I don't know what that is. Um, the chart will help a lot. All right, so this is what, um, a minor pentatonic scale. Looks like an a minor cause route flat 3rd 4th 5th flat, seventh thin. The route been flat. 3rd 4th the fifth, the flat seventh Thin the route in the flat. So when I say that this is the one that men, that is the root of the scale. But I say a flat third What that is that's the interval of a minor third. Ah, an interval of a major third would give me here dome Uh, be 13 No mean, that's the interval of a major third or here. So for it to be a minor third you flat That that this major third the c sharp down to see and and then it becomes a minor third. So we have one flat three from here to here is a perfect fourth from 1 to 4 from 1 to 5. Perfect fifth bond. Then in a minor the minor blues you have a flat seven interval From here to here is a minor seventh interval a za begin. I'm not really expecting you to fully understand. You know what all these numbers mean? I I honestly would feel that you would be more inclined to just learn the pattern and have some fun with it, you know, and maybe practice over a backing track over, you know, certain key. Just make sure you start with the correct finger. So now I'm gonna go through and let's take a look at what are the notes in in the blues scale is opposed to the minor pentatonic scale. This is how you play the blues scale. I'm gonna go one thing about your pinky on flat three. They're gonna move over to the fifth string and play the fourth, then up 1/2 step. That's where flat five is. We're gonna go here and play 1/5. Then we have a flat seven and they were back toe one. This one is an octave higher than this one. They're both A's. Just this one down here. This one's up here. Right? So this is one that we're gonna get to the third string and play this flat third here, they want to play 1/4. We're gonna play another flat five right here. That's the blues note. That's why if you look on the pdf, it's colored in blue. So it goes flat 34 flat five. And then on the second string way have a five minute flat. Seven. Let me have one way of flat three. So probably the first thing I would do is I would just suggest just memorize the finger pattern. Uh, I would just memorize on each string. I would probably memorize it without the blues Note. First, I would just member memorize first finger, fourth finger. These you're talking about? 1234 those your fingers. So you gonna get 14131313 14 And then 14 And then what I would do is go through it again and then just add in the flat five puts, I would practice going up, so that is the blue scale. Now, let's go ahead and take a look at some different things that you can do with it. Okay? We'll show you probably the most common licking blues and rock. And what we're gonna do here is we're gonna take our first finger. I'm borrowing it across the on the first and second string fifth fret right here. And then what I'm doing here is I'm gonna put this finger here on the forum. Basically, I should mention I'm playing the fifth and the route here, You're looking at your your blues scale. Pdf playing the five and one I'm gonna put my third thing you're here on the four. And we would do is I'm gonna have this thing to help push. So when I do a band, this fingers helping push that way, I'm not trying to put all that pressure just on one finger. So the list is gonna sound like this theme, and what I'm doing is I'm I'm taking this four here and I'm bending it up a whole step so it sounds like the five on. So I'm just pushing the string up until it sounds like this note here s after I do that that I play this five here on the second string fifth fret, and then the root here, the first strength of threat and what you end up with is a triplet liqueur going trim. You can't triplets like Trip Bull that trip bullets. You're taking three notes and putting him evenly in one beat. That sounds kind of complicated, but you can just play. Good thing of it is like 123123123 Theo That's one of the most common links there are to play in the blues scale. Now, let's go ahead and take a look at another one. This next blues lick, it's it's almost the same as this. But what we're gonna do is its We're going Teoh do this ban on and then we're gonna be Oh, instead of playing these individually like we're gonna go, it's still gonna be the 1 to 3 trip bullet trip bullet that we're gonna dio. Sure, you've heard that. And it's commonly, And Johnny B. Goode, you hear that Kind of like and just about every class Caracciolo that there is. All right, now let's take a look at basically, I think it kind of is the tomb Two main bend areas in the blue scale. The first bend that you're gonna do is we're gonna take this four right here, and you have the choice of whether you want to bend it up to sound like five waken. Take this four here and bend it up just a little bit. So it sounds like the flat fit there. Tha s Oh, this is a really common Notre to get good at bending you want to do the full of the full note that practice, just doing 1/2 step. That is very common. The other common note that you want to bend people bend a lot. Is this flat seven right here? A. Some of the place I like to play a lot of blue, so I tend to use my third figure. But you know, it's probably more properties your pinky, but I tend to use my third finger. It's a stronger finger. That's why I use my third finger. But either one will work fine, but it's very common to take this flat seven here and bend it up a whole step to sound like the room that's really common. Probably last one I'll mention is on the first string, this flat three. Here. It's pretty common to bend this up so it sounds like upto would be taking this flat three. Bending up a whole step to sound like the fourth vote in an a minus scale. I think there's a just a common a couple common licks that you're gonna want to get down in the blues. I think I'll show you one more before we go and what it's gonna look like. It's gonna be this. It's gonna be that look again. But then I want to bring my pinky down here and play this flat seven on the second drink way. I'm gonna play that flat. Seven on. I'm gonna do a pull off to get the five here so it sounds like a really common blues. Like you'll hear a lot obviously built, probably in the next bill plate that quite that fast. But you can get through it nice and slow. You can do the ban 51 flat seven. Pull off. Five. But I see a pull off just playing holding this note down here and playing this flat seven. I'm pulling away, pulling on the strings, basically plucking it with my with my pinky super common cool blues lick that you want to know so that that's it for the licks. I would practice them. I would go to YouTube. There's tons and tons of blues backing tracks on YouTube. I would just look up. You know, whatever t you want to do if it says a don't here that says g e o do it down here. Be and you know practice playing that scale all over the neck, so you get comfortable what it feels like. What does it feel like up here on? That is how you play the blues scale. If you practice this pattern and learn some key blues licks in it, you can really sound like a true bluesman. Have some fun playing the blues.