Guitar Techniques

In The Woodshed

The V7-IV7-I7 progression is the last part of of a 12-bar blues, otherwise known as the ‘turnaround’. In this lesson we’ll look at soloing over those chords using Dominant 7 arpeggios, in order to break away from the Pentatonic scale. Our examples are over E7-D7-A7 chords but of course you can transpose these ideas to any other key and also use these licks to fuel your own improvisation.

The key of A theoretically only has one Dominant chord; the E7, with the D and A

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