The Chinese scale is our first major scale and is in fact an inversion ... descending lick that borrows ideas from familiar blues-rock phrasing but with a harmonic twist due to the scale’s ...

In bars 1 and 2, over A7, the lines are based primarily on the A blues scale (A, C, D, Eb, E, G), with the inclusion of C#, the major 3rd. This is a common device in blues soloing, as it ...