Discover the Whole Tone Scale to Spice Up Your Blues @QJamTracks

Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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In this guitar lesson you can unlock the Whole tone to spice up the 12 bar blues for outside Jazz sounds from the whole tone scale and sound like a pro! In this guitar tutorial you learn that the Whole tone scale contains some really nice tension notes that will colour your sound when playing over a Blues progression.

Find the full tutorial about the whole tone scale and its awesome application here: youtu.be/wsMgUQTIYII

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Discover the Whole Tone Scale to Spice Up Your Blues

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$INTERVALS for Guitar –crystal clear and ultimate guide In this guitar lesson you’ll learn all about intervals and why they are so important. Intervals are the building blocks of melodic and harmonic music. We look at all the intervals of the 12 tone equal temperament system that leads to the diatonic system. Get familiar with second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and the octave and all the interesting variation of these intervals and extended intervals like the 9th, 11th and 13th. By knowing your intervals you can make better melody lines and create beautiful riffs. Break free from a lifetime pattern playing and learn how to benefit from the knowledge of intervals. 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Level 4 (of 6) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please support this channel by engaging: like, comment, subscribe (with notifications on ;), become a Patreon or visit my e-book store to just take a look! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - **E-BOOK: ** https://qjamtracks.myshopify.com/products/instant-fusion-with-maj7b5-substitutions I bought the Abasi guitar at a quality boutique guitar shop in Cyprus: HTTPS://AHEADMUSIC.COM.CY My **E-BOOK STORE** with affordable crystal-clear guitar lessons packed with audio examples: HTTPS://QJAMTRACKS.MYSHOPIFY.COM My **PATREON PSGE** for support and extra’s: HTTPS://PATREON.COM/QJAMTRACKS **TAGS:** #guitarlesson #guitartutorial #fusionguitar #jazzguitarlesson #progrocklesson #progressiverocklesson #fusionchords #jazzchords #superimpose #improvisationlesson #jazzimprovisation #fusionsolo #chordtheory #musictheory #modernguitarmusic #robvanhal #qjamtracks **CHAPTERS:** 0:00 Introduction 1:00 What are upper structures 2:02 The Maj7b5 chord 3:15 Lesson layout (superimpose Cmaj7b5) 4:37 Cmaj7b5 to F#min7b5 5:37 Cmaj7b5 to G#7alt 6:59 Cmaj7b5 to Amin6(9) 8:24 Cmaj7b5 tot Bsus4b9 9:18 Cmaj7b5 tot Ddom13 11:34 Example in Fusion/Prog Rock style 14:48 Final thoughts **SOCIAL MEDIA / CONTACT: ** https://facebook.com/QJamTracks https://instagram.com/QJamTracks https:// youtube.com/QJamTracks *Strandberg Guitars* https://strandbergguitars.com *Abasi Concepts Guitars* https://abasiconcepts.com/ *Fractal AxeFx II* https://www.fractalaudio.com *Neural DSP PluginS * https://neuraldsp.com/ (c)2026 Rob van Hal, Netherlands$ $TURN Simple Chord Progressions into FUSION & PROGRESSIVE ROCK – Guitar lesson A Fusion and Progressive Rock guitar tutorial about adapting a chord progression and use quartal chords to sound like Fusion and Prog Rock by adding chord extensions to the power chords, create more complex chord extensions like 7 chords, 9 chords, 11 chords,13 chords and altered or augmented chords to the triads for an awesome and ambiguous sounding riffs. 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$Backing Track - Beautiful Orchestral and Modal Rock Ballad in E dorian, Dm and A Lydian An educational and enhanced guitar backing track that modulates from E dorian tp D minor and A Lydian for guitarists who want to improvise in different keys and modes. This beautiful backing track let ‘s you play with minor and major scales, pentatonic substitutions, the lydian and dorian scale. Excellent for improvising, learning modes, scales, chords, licks and arpeggios. This Q JAM TRACKS jam track in provides a visual representation of the chords and scales in diagrams as they appear in the music. Extra theoretical information is shown in the video. It is a high quality backing track and handy tutorial (lesson) at the same time. Artwork: (c) 2019) Rob van Hal Photo: www.pixabay.com Used: Ibanez JEM 7v (www.Ibanez.com) Ibanez SD GR Bass (www.Ibanez.com) Takamine GD930 (www.takamine.com) Castilla Classical Guitars Rode Microphone Axe FX II (www.fractalaudio.com) Social Media/contact: www.patreon.com/QJamTracks www.facebook.com/QJamTracks www.instagram.com/QJamTracks www.youtube.com/QJamTracks (c)2018 Rob van Hal, Netherlands$