Is Blues Warrior another chord-and-scale site?

Not in the end. The chord and scale references here exist because every seat needs them; the subject of the site is the blues itself — its form, and where its blue notes land against each bar. That reading lives on the forms pages: every declared form, read bar by bar in any key.

A pitch the blues bends away from the major scale — most often the third and the seventh, pushed flat or left somewhere between flat and natural, and sometimes the fifth. Played against a chord that holds the natural note, it makes the rub the style is known for.

Will it teach me guitar or bass technique?

Not directly. Technique lives with the family that owns it — Guitar Warrior for the guitar, Bass Warrior for the bass — and every seat page here doors straight to the owner instead of paraphrasing it badly.

Does any of this cost money?

No. Every page and tool is free, with no ads, no account, and nothing tracking you between visits.

Blues Warrior

A form short enough to learn in an afternoon and a feel that takes years — this site is about both, and about how the two meet in every bar.

The Forms Today’s Chord The Seats The Blues Scale

Free field notes for blues players: who sits in a blues band and what each seat carries through the form, with chord, scale, key and fretboard references for the guitar and the bass — each one dooring to the sister site that owns the instrument. At the centre, the blues forms read bar by bar in any key: where each note of the blues scale lands against the chord, as a chord tone, a colour or a rub.

The Seats in a Blues Band

A blues band can be one singer with a guitar or six people on a stage, and the jobs stay the same: someone keeps the pulse, someone states the chord, and someone answers the singer. Two of those seats have full references here.

Guitar

The rhythm under each sung line
The answering phrase in the gap after it
Deep home: Guitar Warrior

Bass

A repeating figure under every bar
Moves with each chord, so the band hears the change
Deep home: Bass Warrior

Piano, Harmonica, Voice & Drums

The rolling left hand, the bent reed, the sung line, the shuffle
No reference section here — what each one carries
Described on the Instruments page

What Lives Here

The Forms, Bar by Bar

The twelve-bar, the quick change, the eight-bar and the sixteen-bar, each read in any key: which notes of the blues scale sit in every bar's chord, which colour it, which rub.

Chord of the Day

The network’s shared pick, played as a blues plays every bar and read as the home, subdominant and dominant bar, with the blue notes of each key against it.

The Seats

Six seats in a blues band and what each carries while the form goes round — two with full references, four described in prose.

The Blues Scale

The minor pentatonic with one extra note squeezed in, mapped on the guitar and the bass in every key, with playback.

Guitar Chords

Every root and quality drawn for standard tuning, with the dominant sevenths a blues rests on filed among the rest.

Fretboard Explorer

Tap a note and see every place it lives on the neck — the map for finding where a bend has to start.

How It Works

Find Your Seat

Start with what your instrument is responsible for in a blues band — the part it carries when nobody is soloing, which is most of the time.

Learn the Sound

The blues scale and the minor pentatonic under it, in every key, and the bends that pull a note flat against the chord.

Read the Form

Pick a form and a key and read every bar: the notes of the blues scale that sit in the chord, the ones that colour it, and the ones that rub.

An Idiom, Not an Instrument

Blues Warrior is a genre site in the Warrior Network. Its sisters teach instruments one family at a time; this one teaches something that runs through all of them — the blues as a form you can count and a feel you have to hear. It never tells you where to put a finger: every technique question doors to the sister site that owns the instrument, and every table here is derived from shared, tested data rather than copied from a book.

Go Deeper

Everything on the site, one hop away: the forms · chord of the day · the seats · guitar chords · guitar scales · bass chords · bass scales · tools. For any chord on any of 20+ string instruments, our sister site String Warrior goes wide where this one goes deep.