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Hey, this is a simple video explaining the blues scale and how to use it with a left hand.
*Check out my other video on “The 12 bar blues” for info on what to do with the left hand*
Hope this helps
Duration : 0:1:31
can u tell us how …
can u tell us how to do like a basic blues bass part?
A passing note is a …
A passing note is a note in a scale that in fact doesn’t belong in a paerticularscale, but doesn’t sound wrong either.
To give you an example in the great key of C.
The notes of the C-Scale are:
c-d-e-f-g-e-b-c.
The notes of the blues C-scale are:
c-eb-f-g-Bb-c(5-note scale)
Notes added can be in this scale:
c-d-eb-f-Gb-g-Bb-b-c
Passing notes are: D-Gb-B.
They take the blues out of the scale in fact, but can be used to make a more fluent run.
Hope I made myself clear with this.
what do you mean a …
what do you mean a passing note???
Thanks that helps. …
Thanks that helps. I am really new to blues scales and jazz. I thought it was easy to follow at first until you started improvising. Then I got lost until you said at the end you only used the notes from the scales you showed us at the beginning.
thanks man! …
thanks man! seriously
Real great man !! …
Real great man !! thank you so much !
I knew nothing about piano and today i got a keyboard
One Question do you also got such an easy tutorial for left hand ?
thanks
you’re the best! i …
you’re the best! i don’t know a thing about playing piano but it worked even fo me!
it’s like piano for the dummies! thanks!
oh Yes – have you …
oh Yes – have you tried “when the saints” in chromatic structure C C’# D D# X3 C Ab C Bb C C Bb Ab C D# C#
C C# D# Bb Ab Ab. – Maybe I will write it out on stave with base :/ – any Ideas Guru ? Perhaps you would play it your style
The bluenotes are …
The bluenotes are the flattened 3rd and the flattened 7th.
The flattened 5th is just a passing note
THANK YOU SO MUCH. …
THANK YOU SO MUCH. Man I love them blues scales. I’m kinda natural at it I guess. Love it. So much fun.
Hey i like your …
Hey i like your vidio buth….. I got problem doing it xD Can u say me which chords and stuff u are using there
wonderfull , thank …
wonderfull , thank you very much ,
Great work for the world
Thanks for the …
Thanks for the comment.
I’m afraid it’s perhaps a little habbit of mine to add in chromatic approaching chords. Good comment though
The blues scales is …
The blues scales is like an artist’s PALETTE.. The instructor hit an A and also a B which is not in the basic blues scale, but those notes sound okay too, and what a musician actually DOES is more important than a theory about how music works. Nice clear presentation.. You left hand played some 1/2 step chromatic approach tones ..maybe you should leave those out for the purpose of simplification..
it was a b, and …
it was a b, and probly just because its the major 7th tone. just a different sound.
flattened fifth.. …
flattened fifth.. sharpened fourth.. whats in the name? (and please dont spam me with music theories about how different they are. I GET IT.)
I notice you use …
I notice you use the A below middle C at the end of it?
nice
nice
i dont play the …
i dont play the piano, just the guitar, but isnt the flattened fifth a blue not or something just wondering
the C minor …
the C minor pentatonic doesnt have the flattened 5th. but this video is good.
Great.
Really …
Great.
Really good…..but I have difficulty knowing where to start and where to end with a rift.
Do you start on the tonic…or is best to end on the tonic before going on to the next (V,IV etc) part of the progression?
It would be good to see where your finges are going…ie from above.
I know this is not about learning individual notes..but you have to start somewhere ..and i feel I’m missing a secret link somewhere!
Any clues?
TVM
yeah, it’s …
thanks for the ideas
yeah, it’s begginer’s stuff but very very VERY usefull
Thanks for the …
Thanks for the explanation =)
He was playing a …
He was playing a G-major chord which contains a B natural in its third interval. It is also the V-chord in the I-IV-V or 1-4-5 Blues progression. The Blues scale does NOT contain every note in every chord in the progression.
You used a B …
You used a B natural in the end and that one’s not in the blues scale! And it does sound allright, so why did you use it and what’s the theory behind it??