When seeking to improve at blues guitar, the first port of call is usually learning some guitar solos, be it the swampy pentatonics of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Texas Flood or dynamic melodies of B.B King’s The Thrill is Gone.
However, while there is merit to such an approach, John Mayer has advised players against relying solely on learning the solos of others – a stance supported by the fact Mayer himself has never learned a blues solo note-for-note.
