Can anyone recommend a guitar teacher that specializes in blues? Preferably in Klang Valley area, but if too far I probably won't mind online face-to-face lessons.
I'm interested to learn how to play blues solo.

Manage to find someone? I'm looking too

How long have you guys been playing? How familiar are you with pentatonics and improvising?
Secondly, what type of blues are you interested in? Is it more to blues rock? Or more pop-ish like John Mayer? Or are you really interested in mastering the 12-bars?

I play some blues. I'm not teaching, but I can point you to some valuable & time saving lessons.

Feel free to PM me.

learn blues chord progression, its relatively hard to learn a genre without first learning the base rhythmic progression.

So far I only know the standard I-IV-V progression. Haven't experimented with the variations and adding turnarounds.

I've only been playing for 6 months so far and self taught. No experience with improvising. As for minor pentatonic, I only know 1 position (the one with root note on 6th string) and can play it in any 12 keys, but I don't really know what to do with it tbh. But I do notice that a lot of riffs from songs I listen to come from that position. I know 4 positions for major scale though, and have been using it to figure out melodies by ear of songs I know, though I still suck at it.

I'm interested to improvise 12 bar blues. Short term goal is to be able to play like this: https://youtu.be/A67-Uee4iSI. So far I only know like 2-3 licks. Still getting the hang of string bending. As for rhythm, I only know how to play the standard 12 bar blues shuffle (which is painful lol). Still getting the hang of dominanth 7th chords and extended chords (9 and 13).

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Ahh you are still new. Don't worry, I've been playing for 10+ years and I still struggle with this.

Recently I've seen a video with a refreshing take of learning the minor pentatonic scale. It would have been useful if I've seen this 10 years ago:


Right now you have learned one minor pentatonic shape, and yes you're right, most blues and rock solos use this shape.

The next step for you is: In that shape, identify what notes you are playing (Refer to this diagram). Start with the root. Memorize where the root is in the shape. Next learn how to identify the 3rd, 5th, b7 notes are in relation to the root note (For example, if root is on 5th fret, where is the b3 note? Where is the b7? etc). This will teach you how to identify intervals on the fretboard.

Once you've done the homework above (Recommend you spend 1 to 2 months on this), start learning the other shapes. If you're new to this, you might feel it's daunting to memorize 4 more shapes. But don't worry, the first shape you learned is moveable around the fretboard. Because you've done your homework, you know that if you are able find the root note anywhere on the fretboard, you can identify the notes around it. (In my youth, I would just memorize shapes without thinking about the notes. It's a big time waster.) Don't memorize buta2 je.

If you're soloing on I-IV-V progression, you can get a lot of mileage from just minor pentatonics (You can pick up the blues scale when you're familiar with minor pentatonic, it's just one extra note). Don't worry about major pentatonic/scale for the time being, work on the above, work on your timing, work on your techniques (Bending, vibrato, slides). Major scale can come later.

Good luck & enjoy!  :thumbsup: