“I always say blues isn’t about the blues scale or the minor pentatonic scale. It’s not scaley music – it’s pattern music”: Sue Foley shows you how to stop your blues solos from sounding “scaley”
With 15 albums under her belt, blues guitarist Sue Foley knows a thing or two about crafting bona fide blues solos. In celebration of her latest album, One Guitar Woman, Foley has now revealed her go-to blues lick that still sounds fresh.
“I always say blues isn’t about the blues scale or the minor pentatonic scale or anything like that. It’s not scaley music. It’s a pattern music. So you got to know the patterns to kind of really sound bluesy,” she tells Guitar World.
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