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Originally Posted by pjbelsch
a lot of blues techniques and soloing techniques and finesse I never learned.
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Well, there's your answer!
And the way to learn that is to find the music that sounds like you want to sound, and listen and copy.
That's where the vocabulary you need comes from: melodies, riffs, licks and solos.
Your ear seems to be good enough to do that, so it's just about expanding the music you listen to, and copying anything that catches your ear. You also need the chords, of course, to understand why those notes were chosen - how they work with and against the harmony - so you can apply the licks in other contexts.
The thing with blues in particular is that's quite hard to theorize about it using western terminology - it makes it seem a whole lot more complicated than it really is, because notes are bent in the blues, which doesn't make sense in western (classical) theory. Same with jazz rhythms, swing and so on. You can't write that down, you have to learn it by listening and copying - over and over.
And the point about copying what you
like (not just things that other people tell you to learn), is that that's how you develop your own "voice", by finding phrases that catch your ear and seem to speak to you.