https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/intro-to-minor-blues-scale-banjo-advanced
Some of the coolest banjo licks I know employ the minor blues scale! We need to know it, so let’s learn what it is and how to use it…and of course some hot licks!
Discuss the Banjo lesson: Intro to Minor Blues Scale
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Here’s a great pre-req lesson: https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/introduction-to-melodic-banjo-banjo
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Loved the triplets! Something to work on for sure! 
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Thank you! Some things are beginning to click now (licks & scales). I surely do appreciate this one immensely. Great stuff, Ben!
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The dogs love red meat…I see this stuff in a lot of stuff, this fill the gaps. Really like it when the theory is there to hang everything onto. Also seeing how to apply it is great.
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Great Lesson @BanjoBen I have always kinda steered well clear of bluesy stuff, But I am really enjoying working through this lesson. I am halfway through the licks section struggling to get some clean notes on the thumb over the 5th string section.
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Some fun stuff! Now to get the fingers to go in these foreign territories. I have learned some melodic songs, all in G, so I’m used to playing a bit up the neck, but found myself going to ‘familiar’ frets. Really will enjoy learning to use different parts of the neck.
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Hi @captstevehardy Welcome to @BanjoBen 's Forum. I too love this lesson, It amazes me how I just keep discovering new things on the fret board in every new lesson I work through.
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Hey @BanjoBen in the Learn the Licks section, measure 51, where you do that amazing choke. How do you get the warble into the choke. I hear you do it a lot and try as I might I just can’t seem to replicate that sound and I end up with either a simple bend and release or I stumble, getting my fingers caught up in the strings
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Hmmm, I can’t really say unless I could hear your attempt, perhaps?
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Hey @BanjoBen
This lesson was posted over a year ago but it will never get old. It took me a long time to get it down but I think I got it - Love this idea, thanks for sharing the knowledge
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yeah man, you’re getting it now!
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Just joined yesterday, this lesson alone is worth the price! I might steal some of these licks for my electric guitar jams. Great stuff!
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Hi Ben, Thanks for the intro to the scale. I tried using the minor blues scale in an a part of a song that required the relative minor. . It did not work. I confused the minor blues with the relative Minor I guess. I was looking for sort of a melodic Em run if there is such a thing. Richard Baily of The Steeldrivers does this melodic sort of run in Em during the song "Can You Run. " At the 2:17 mark it begins on this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83KTgzk5Hww Em being the relative of G, is he doing a melodic G run through this Em? Or is there a scale for relative minors? Im wondering what science he is using there so I can find something simaliar to do there. Ive wondered about that concept for a while now. I tried melodic G and it almost seems to work, but I dont think it does. Maybe this would be a topic you would like to cover one day. Relative minor scales, if they exist. Thanks Ben for the website and all your hard work
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Hey Richard, keep in mind the Em scale is the same as the Gmaj scale – try messing around with the G major scale, landing on E, and see if it sounds a little better!
Thank you. I suspected this was the answer. Thanks a ton! I just tried the G major scale again in melodic and it sounded right this time. Ben I am all set and dont need an individual reply. Thanks again Michael!
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Awesome! Glad that helped you out. Holler at us if you need anything else!
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