The Warrior Network teaches instruments one family at a time, each in real depth on its own site. Blues Warrior exists because the blues is not any one instrument's technique. It is a form — a short, repeating shape a player can count — and a feel: where the notes that are not in the chord land against the bar, how far they bend, and whether the beat underneath them swings. None of that belongs to the guitar or the bass or the piano, and all of it is played on them.
The test a genre site has to pass is whether it is additive. A site about the blues could very easily become a slightly worse copy of the instrument sites stapled together, or a scale chart with a genre word on it. So the subject was chosen by subtraction: take everything the network's other sites already teach properly, remove it, and publish only what is left over.
Additive, or it shouldn't exist
The ledger, stated plainly, so it can be checked rather than believed:
- Guitar Warrior keeps the guitar. This site says what the guitar seat carries in a blues band and draws the chords and scales it needs; the technique, the tunings and the gear stay there.
- Bass Warrior keeps the bass. This site says what the bass line has to do under each bar and names the pitches; how to play them stays there.
- Keys Warrior keeps the keyboard. The piano is described here in prose and doors there for every chord and scale.
- Theory Warrior keeps the theory. Why a dominant seventh wants to resolve is its subject. This site says only how the blues uses one.
- Jazz Warrior keeps the tune. A jazz blues is one of the forms it declares and edits. This site is about the blues itself, not about what jazz does to it.
- Country Warrior keeps the song's parts, Bluegrass Warrior the band as a working room, and Nashville Warrior the chart a session reads from. None of their vocabulary is borrowed here.
What is left is the blues as form and feel. At the centre is the part no other site computes: a set of declared blues forms, each checked against a published source, realised into any key, with every note of the blues scale read against the chord of the bar it falls in — the chord tones, the colour notes, and the rubs the style is built on. Around it sit the seats in a blues band and what each one carries, full chord, scale, key and fretboard references for the two strung seats, and a chord of the day read as a bar of the blues.
The network
Blues Warrior is part of the Warrior Network alongside String Warrior, the multi-instrument hub, and Theory Warrior, where the theory this site leans on is taught from first principles. The network page says which sister answers which question.
Everything here is static, free and free of tracking: no accounts, no analytics, no third-party requests, nothing to dismiss before you can read a page. Your theme preference is kept in your own browser and nowhere else — see the privacy page. The pages are built to be read by a screen reader in a sensible order and to carry their meaning in words rather than colour — see accessibility for the specifics, and for where to write when something falls short.