How to Play Box Patterns on the Blues Guitar

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Hi! My name is John Armstrong from ExpertVillage.com. Today I will be discussing with you the ins and outs of electric Blues Guitar. Another thing that I can do besides using chords, either triad chords or seven chords is stick to the basic major key pattern, but use a type of pattern which is referred to as a box pattern and substitute that for my one, four and five chords, I am still going to have the same notes, for example if I do it in the key of G, it would be G as my one, C as my four and D as my five. But I am going to substitute a box pattern, a box pattern is more something like this, we are going from the root to the octave to the flat at seventh to the fifth. If it was referred to as a major scale. That is the basic box pattern. I am doubling up each note, putting that within the confines of the 4 of the 12 measures using a one, four, five progression it will be something like this. Now I can do different variations on that box pattern by adding things called hammer ons or pull offs and/or trills, right here, two, three, four.

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