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Blues Lesson Songwriting

Author: Jimmy Kachulis

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Berklee College of Music faculty and successful songwriter Jimmy Kachulis, teaches you how to write great songs. In this lesson, he explains how a major pentatonic blues scale can be used in a melody over any major chord progression.

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