Blues progression developed with guide-tone line added

[fingerpickin]

In this exercise I’ve taken the developed blues chord progression from my last post and added a guide-tone line.
The first time around I play the guide-tone line with accompanying chords. The second time around I’m only playing the chords leaving space for somebody else to play the guide-tones. Fancy a jam on a 12 bar blues ? The TAB is given beneath the video

http://www.fingerpickingguitar.org/b...d-guide-tones/

[jwing]

Thanks, fingerpickin.

The guide tone concept you present is similar to the Simplify the Melody technique described in Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 2.

I can attest that it is a good way to create passable improv breaks in both bluegrass and blues jams.