Jazz Guitar Basics: How Do You Play the Minor and Major Blues Scales With One Fingering?
Play the minor blues scale as one shape that repeats in every octave, slide one finger through the chromatic notes, and keep the root on the same finger. The major blues scale adds the major 3rd and circles around it on the way down.
Why Does Your Blues Sound Like Practice? Wes Montgomery Built His on Sound, Not Patterns
If your blues solos sound like practice, the missing piece isn't a new lick — it's the sound: the tension between major and minor thirds that makes a line feel like the blues before any 'blue note' is played. Wes Montgomery's own blues, Cariba, is the clearest proof.