Joe Bonamassa modal use in blues

[LukeWinship]

Just a quick question that hopefully someone on here can help me with. Found this youtube clip of Mr Bonamassa playing 12 bar (ish) blues and wondered what mode he is playing in over the A chord of a riff in E minor pentatonic?

The best example on the video comes in at around the 50 second mark but examples of him using this mode are in this video at other times but are not as noticable as the one i've highlighted.



Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.

[TonyC]

At 0.50 he plays like there was an A7 chord... he plays notes from an A mixolydian scale and accentuate the 4th to 3rd note in the scale.

Try playing these note to get a bit of that feeling (Bend the 1st note a whole tone step from E to F#):

F#, E, D, C#, A, G, E, G, A, D, C#, A

[LukeWinship]

Cheers Tony!

I had a feeling it was Mixolydian but wasn't sure.

Thanks again dude!