How to Solo Over “Autumn Leaves” With the Blues (and Pentatonic) Scale | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson

In this guitar lesson, I will show you how to solo over “Autumn Leaves” with blues and pentatonic scales!

Ok, I admit it…I don’t actually play a “blues scale”—in fact, I don’t even know what one is.

I just slip, slide and bend a few notes in and out of the pentatonic scale until it gets the right “flavor” and sounds bluesy 🙂

If you are a blues-based guitar player and you get freaked out by trying to solo over jazz guitar chord changes – this will help you get started!

• 1:11 How I discovered this!
• 2:26 II V I in G Major – chord voicings
• 3:24 Horizontal vs Vertical Soloing
• 3:50 What is a key?
• 4:14 The G Major Pentatonic Scale
• 5:45 Example solo over II V I in G
• 6:35 The E Minor Pentatonic
• 7:14 ii V i in E Minor – chord voicings
• 8:09 Example solo over ii V i in E Minor
• 9:03 Using Blues & Pentatonics on “Autumn Leaves”
• 9:54 Example solo over “Autumn Leaves”

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