you are with out a doubt one of the best music teachers on yt. If not the best. I wish you could do these for all the scales. Either way you've given us so much as it is. Thank you.
I was literally looking for beginner blues tutorials about chord progressions and this vid gave me a great headstart in understanding it. Really appreciate your effort in making this vid
I never check any youtube lesson that uses keyboard or piano before. As a guitar player, I prefer the sound of guitar than keyboard or piano. Yet, I bookmark your channel because I like your clear explanation and licks. Thank you.
Rendy Andrian as a guitar player I started out on one string and before long I was gleaning licks of Chet Atkins playing the record over and over.. so I've spent alot of time mucho tiempo on the guitar .I sometimes want to hear only one instrument..then I'll stumble on someone giving a a guitar lesson on fly me to the moon on guitar.. it is good to expand on more than one instrument but of course do not neglect others
PIANOSTYLE100 I agree. If you have time and will to learn more than one instruments, it's really a good learning experience. For myself, I started learning acoustic guitar almost 20 years ago. But, it's going nowhere. Only 2 years ago, I realize I should learn electric guitar instead of acoustic one. Changing from acoustic to electric pushes me to learn not only how to play the instrument, but also things around the guitar itself. For example wood, strings type & gauge, pick, pedals, amp & speaker brands, etc. For me, learning all of those is a very rewarding experience.
Rendy Andrian Randy try this on piano right hand just below middle c g thumb a index now middle on bflat now thumb on b now index on on d now middle on e go back to d with next pinky on g . you can transfer this up to c and play have. in left then c 7 ECT how this helps
Rendy Andrian have your ever tried the licks of Jerry Reed the claw and use it over the a7 blues which Chet Atkins used a lot and M. Haggard.. I don't even use a bar cord here I use fifth fret and let the e and a base strings ring. btw the stringed instruments came before piano.. try this on guitar and see if you get your base player to to play the circle of fifths stating at a then d then g then c. ECT. now here's the beauty of a stringed fretted instrument... play a double stop on d string fifth fret and g string 6th fret . you will be hiring a g and a c sharp. that's the flatted seven and the third of a. if you don't have some one that can play the base notes record your guitar playing them or do it on piano alternatively a sequencer would work..Les Paul had to figure at ways to things. you have any questions feel free to reply.. oh and I can do a a piano video with just theme circle of fifths and upload it to my you my guitar you tube piano.. which needs alot of work since I have to do the filming too.
Thanks, good video (as usual). I already knew the blues scale but I learnt from your video that we could use the 3 semitones below scale. That is a really good trick to enrich solos.
This lesson blew my mind. Thank you so much for your clear, amazing teaching. Please do a video on how to come up with licks using this combined blues scale. Do I play chord tones? Non-chord tones? Which intervals can I play over each chord? what kind of rhythms do I use? ******HELP!!!***** (Also, Maybe a video on harmonic variations on basic blues? )
The 'combined' scale improv sounds like a very nice jazz treatment. I've seen several videos and other sources of jazz improv instruction and have never come across this very cool idea before!
Interestingly, the A blues scale, played from C to C - or in its first 'mode', is also called the C 'major' blues scale. Which is a very cool scale used even beyond the blues. For instance, you hear it alot in country music.
Concise but nonetheless excellent lesson, alongside with the other ones. As a blues fan self-taught guitarist I wish I had seen your major/corresponding minor scale tip years earlier, though I'm glad for those who will learn it thanks to your teaching skills. Thank you sir for clear, illustrated and interesting share of your knowledge.
I taught a Herbie Hancock lick and he used 11/12 of the notes and the 12th could be definitely a passing note. It was pulled largely from the Dominant Diminished scale. like your illustrations.
Great lesson and helped my understanding, but would love to have learned the licks since you're playing scale notes but not in order. Or could link to another video with licks lesson. thanks!
+kingstumble I wouldn't go so far as to say you should be wary of any notes, they're not out the get you :). But yes, they definitely don't sound as good as any of the others (unless used as passing notes).
I just don't get the idea of the chords not being part of the scale - a blues scale has no "7", so how can you tell what's the "7" in C7/F7/G7? and I also noticed that the chords have notes in them that aren't part of the blues scale . Can anyone explain?? I'm new to music theory
Actually the chords shown in his video aren't really built on the blues scale (not like when you build chords on a diatonic scale). The "7" behind the chord letters basically says that the chord is dominant. So C7 is C dominant seventh (if you want to dig deeper in music theory, the 7 is actually a minor seventh (two semitones below the root note), in contrast to the major seventh (1 semitone below the root note), and the major seventh will make the chord "major seventh chord" (M7 chord) like in CM7, FM7, GM7)
sorry to comment so much but have you seen or used the Android app piano assistant I m not sure how it works it has a tone sensor that picks up the piano and puts it into standard sheet music format. love the a blues scale against the c family of chords
I'm sure you know this and I found this out through experimentation. I played Georgia for years using F blues. One day I realized it was D blues D F G Ab A C. I noticed when I just let the melody flow I was largely n D blues ,as long as I was playing n the key of F. I was playing along with Hugh Laurie's take on it and also found a PDF of his version and from what I see he uses D blues alot. There is no major 2 or major 3rd or G or A in F blues but D blues solves that. We guitar players do the Lester Flatt run in G. Awhile back I noticed this was a displaced E blues run. E GA Bb B D E. Is the E blues scale. 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 Now start from G A Bb B D E G. If I'm playing in g this a common boogie base and in the right I use it as part of the melody.Just some thoughts.
I have been handicapped all my life. any suggestions on how to play with my right hand only. I have a Yamaha psr s650 at the moment. thank you....... Tony
+Tony Kroah: Sure. You can do some great blues or jazz soloing just with your right hand. In fact, when you think about it, that's what lead guitarists do. Actually it's pretty cool. Without having to worry about having to provide a chordal underpinning, it frees you up to focus on perfecting your solo groove. Obviously, it'd be great to find some musicians to collaborate with. But for practicing, there's various rhythm machines, Band In A Box, and the great Jamey Aebersold Music Minus One CDs. Also, your keyboard may have some useful 'comping' capability.
+Dave March Dave I'm so sick of laying down 20 bars of c, f & g. it was a nice starting point but I know I can do better. my other keyboard is a Yamaha psr 6300. both are nice but the workstation excels immeasurable.
Hello Tony, I did play guitar for over 30 years, I got a stroke 3 years ago ( left hand side paralysed since then ) I started to play piano this year ( needed to have music in my life and a challenge ! ) :-) @ MangoldProject : Thank you Sir for a great video about the blues scale, very informative and motivating !
I Malcolm Hello Malcolm. Yes, but for a minor blues you cannot mix and match the same two scales. For example, an A minor blues could use the A blues scale but not the C blues scale. A more detailed answer would require a separate video, which gives me an idea ... :)
Hey Mangold Project, your lessons are really simple to follow for beginners like me and has such wealth of information.Thanks a ton for sharing. I also want to chip in my understanding of the combined scale you talk about in the video.We can look at the C+A blues scale as a ( C minor scale + A note).These exactly contain all the notes as in the combined scale. Right?
Jijo Thomas Hi Jijo. You didn't mention which C minor scale you're referring to, but I think the combined scale should contain more than just C minor + A. C blues + A blues has C, D, Eb, E, F, Gb, G, A, Bb. The note E for example would not be part of the C minor scale.
+ST EL Are you talking about vertical vs horizontal playing on the guitar neck? The concepts presented here should apply no matter what positions you choose. As for the scales you mentioned (F, G), it will depend on the key you're in. If you're doing a blues in C you'll end up using the C and A blues scales (or the C and A minor pentatonic scales).
I am talking about when you are doing a blues in C, apart from the C and A blues scales that you demonstrated, can you also use the F blues scale and the G blues scales when soloing over the F7(IV) and G7(V) chords that are part of the blues in C?
Thank you for this video! I always love your playing and I'm hoping to learn piano by slowly watching through your videos (and practice). I don't quite understand why the a scale and the c scale go together although I think they sound great together. Can you explain why or is that not the style of teaching you want to present? Is there any basic knowledge I should go learn to bring to your videos? Again, really inspiring and thank you.
purplegoat2500 I honestly don't know. I think "why" is not always a good question in music, because I doubt there are many good answers to be had. I could try and think in terms of intervals and ratios of frequencies and psychoacoustics, but that wouldn't make me a better musician (usually). It's much more important to identify *patterns* and *ideas*, because those are going to be the important parts for you to memorize and what makes up the "heart" of a song or a solo. At least that's my very practical attitude towards music. I'm sure someone specializing in music theory or musicology would disagree :).
thanks for the reply! I take it your lessons are self contained then. I'll just watch all of them and see how it goes for me. a lot of people have opinions but your opinion accompanies truly beautiful playing, so I'll try it out!
So you can't make a c minor chord in the f minor blues scale . Since c minor requires a G ( fifth) , and this one is not in the F min blues scale . A c diminished is also not possible ( no G flat in the scale )..... Is this where modulatio comes in , when you want to play a chord that oesn't belong to the scale ? Also , your playing a F maj. chord with your left ..whichdoesn't belong to the F blues scale , is this done all the time , HOw would you solve that ?
The blues scale does not lend itself very well to functional harmony. Don't try to analyze it in terms of degrees. To loosely quote a famous physicist (Pauli), "Your question is wrong" :) The "blue notes" create tension on purpose with the underlying minor or major scale they're played over. They're "non-belonging-ness" is their appeal.
I have a few questions. If I want to use that technique for piano soloing should I use left hand chords then the scale on right or should I use right hand chords and scale and left hand walking base? I'm too confuse about it because there is so many players do right hand chords and left hand pattern then others do left hand chords then scale or melody in right hand?
MangoldProject thank you so much! I have a music composition assignment due in 4 weeks and I am really stuck so that would be really appreciated thank you :)
Depends on the key, of course. Let's take C: A blues scale, starting at the note C: 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 ... C blues scale, starting at the note C: there are several options. Try: 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 1 2 ... or 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 ...
MangoldProject Thanks been playing the scales for a year and noticed that when I try to do rolls it doesn't work cause of my approach to the finger positions
I didnt know that you could combine two blues scale together...Can you apply this rule only when playing blues? Can i do that if im jazz improvising? + How can you use A scales while playing C minor in the bass. Is it that you only play them quickly without stopping at a A minor note? Because when i improvise with A minor notes to a C minor chord it really sounds awful, is it about the way you play it?
I'd have to hear what you're playing to give you a detailed answer. The short answer is: yes, you should be able to combine them, that's the whole point of this video!
We will call it MANGOLD,s BLUES SCALE : (In your HONOR Dude) Use notes I ,II,II#,III,IV,T,V,VI,VIIb,I -----> Fully functional / BLUES Bullet Proof !!! Use those all 9 notes Scale for all 3 chords(I,IV,&V)intermingled to taste...
Best explanation about soloing blues I found in UA-cam!
Justinus Andjarwirawan Thank man!
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Really excellent. Glad to see the stops to show the left hand fingering.
you are with out a doubt one of the best music teachers on yt. If not the best. I wish you could do these for all the scales. Either way you've given us so much as it is. Thank you.
I was literally looking for beginner blues tutorials about chord progressions and this vid gave me a great headstart in understanding it. Really appreciate your effort in making this vid
I never check any youtube lesson that uses keyboard or piano before. As a guitar player, I prefer the sound of guitar than keyboard or piano. Yet, I bookmark your channel because I like your clear explanation and licks. Thank you.
Having a guitar player following my channel is always a high honor :)
Rendy Andrian as a guitar player I started out on one string and before long I was gleaning licks of Chet Atkins playing the record over and over.. so I've spent alot of time mucho tiempo on the guitar .I sometimes want to hear only one instrument..then I'll stumble on someone giving a a guitar lesson on fly me to the moon on guitar.. it is good to expand on more than one instrument but of course do not neglect others
PIANOSTYLE100 I agree. If you have time and will to learn more than one instruments, it's really a good learning experience. For myself, I started learning acoustic guitar almost 20 years ago. But, it's going nowhere. Only 2 years ago, I realize I should learn electric guitar instead of acoustic one. Changing from acoustic to electric pushes me to learn not only how to play the instrument, but also things around the guitar itself. For example wood, strings type & gauge, pick, pedals, amp & speaker brands, etc. For me, learning all of those is a very rewarding experience.
Rendy Andrian Randy try this on piano right hand just below middle c g thumb a index now middle on bflat now thumb on b now index on on d now middle on e go back to d with next pinky on g . you can transfer this up to c and play have. in left then c 7 ECT how this helps
Rendy Andrian have your ever tried the licks of Jerry Reed the claw and use it over the a7 blues which Chet Atkins used a lot and M. Haggard.. I don't even use a bar cord here I use fifth fret and let the e and a base strings ring. btw the stringed instruments came before piano.. try this on guitar and see if you get your base player to to play the circle of fifths stating at a then d then g then c. ECT. now here's the beauty of a stringed fretted instrument... play a double stop on d string fifth fret and g string 6th fret . you will be hiring a g and a c sharp. that's the flatted seven and the third of a. if you don't have some one that can play the base notes record your guitar playing them or do it on piano alternatively a sequencer would work..Les Paul had to figure at ways to things. you have any questions feel free to reply.. oh and I can do a a piano video with just theme circle of fifths and upload it to my you my guitar you tube piano.. which needs alot of work since I have to do the filming too.
very helpful. I’ve never used the A blues scale over C like that before. Very cool sound. Thank you!
This video is very helpful and I'm studying a number of your other tutorials as well. Thank you for your lessons!
I’m in a blues band, so anything blues related is helpful. Anything not blues also helps, haha! Thanks!
Great! Then I'm sure you'll enjoy my next video on the physiology of cephalopods! :)
Jajaja! I can’t wait, I’m sure the physiology of cephalopods will be most useful in my blues career!
You've made this incredibly easy to understand; thank you. :)
Garrett Rowland You're welcome Garrett.
That is brilliant.. I guess 3 semi tones down works because it is the relative minor. Thank you!
Always knew about using the blues scale for soloing but had bo clue u could use the relative minor as well! U sire have just blown my mind!
In that case, I've done my job well :)
Wow dude I knew about the scale but not in the way you showed! This opens a whole new world for me! Thanks once again!
This a fabulous lesson.
definitely one of the best blues piano tutorial vids! thank you!
Thanks Meg.
Excellent lesson,many thanks. Waiting for your video on blues licks
Your videos have been a GREAT help over the years, thank you very much.
Thanks, good video (as usual). I already knew the blues scale but I learnt from your video that we could use the 3 semitones below scale. That is a really good trick to enrich solos.
Studied jazz and theory and this guy is great!~Modes and scales! Thank you sir
Awesome explanation, I've always been confused about the major and minor blues scales. 👍
Such a concise tutorial. I've subscribed. Many thanks.
My favorite tutor on UA-cam
Thanks Kingsley.
This lesson blew my mind. Thank you so much for your clear, amazing teaching. Please do a video on how to come up with licks using this combined blues scale. Do I play chord tones? Non-chord tones? Which intervals can I play over each chord? what kind of rhythms do I use? ******HELP!!!*****
(Also, Maybe a video on harmonic variations on basic blues? )
Awesome explanation, nobody could explain the C blues and A blues combination played in C major. Thanks for the lesson.
Another way to think of it is the A blues is just the C major pentatonic with a b3 added as the blue note.
gambart2002 good observation.
Thank you for sharing. Excellent and very clear.
This was incredibly helpful! Thank you for making such a great video
The 'combined' scale improv sounds like a very nice jazz treatment. I've seen several videos and other sources of jazz improv instruction and have never come across this very cool idea before!
Best explanation, simple, quick and efficient, just perfect! Please do more!
I'm always awed by your versatility! You're an awesome polymath...and thanks for another wonderful, easy-to-understand lesson! :)
MoGyver Holmes Thanks, I appreciate the feedback! Particularly if it's positive ;)
Thank you so much. your instructions are very clear. I like blue.
I never leave comments... But I just had to thank u so much for this lesson and video. You're awesome...thanks again!!
Thanks Diana!
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Very useful lesson, I like it. Thank you. Sir
I learned something new and interesting, thanks!
wow totally forgot about using the Am scale over C Thank you for your channel
THANKS MY FRIEND. Greetings from colombia!!
well well done...i am sharing this on my fb...now i understand clearly
Thanks Douglas! I appreciate the share.
More like this! Your licks are dope
Kenny Wilson Thanks Kenny! I've been wanting to upload a video on blues licks - hope I'll get around to making one in the next couple of weeks.
Cool,didn’t know you could use an a blues scale over cfand g blues,I gotta learn this ,thank you
Thank you so much, For the the nice lesson.
I'll be looking forward to seeing it.
Interestingly, the A blues scale, played from C to C - or in its first 'mode', is also called the C 'major' blues scale. Which is a very cool scale used even beyond the blues. For instance, you hear it alot in country music.
These combined Blues Scale sounds Jazzy!
This is gold. Thanks a lot!
Excellent lesson. Thanks! You answered a big question of mine as to why certain notes "work".
Cool! Glad to hear.
Concise but nonetheless excellent lesson, alongside with the other ones. As a blues fan self-taught guitarist I wish I had seen your major/corresponding minor scale tip years earlier, though I'm glad for those who will learn it thanks to your teaching skills. Thank you sir for clear, illustrated and interesting share of your knowledge.
allstargum99 Glad to be of help!
I subscribed to your channel as soon as I found out and I don't regret that!. Sorry for my bad english, i'm learning...
Lucca Cosentino I can help you with your English I am a student of Spanish and I know what it is like ..
PIANOSTYLE100 That would be of great help to me! I would greatly appreciate it. If you want I can help you with Spanish.
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No need for any second language person to apologise about Grammer. Your making an effort..I'm about twenty percent fluent in Spanish. Try Duolingo.
Great video lesson thanks!
You're welcome Rocco.
Awesome explanation 👍
Thank you for this useful tutorial
So much good information, I learned a lot. Thanks :)
You're welcome.
This video is awesome!!!
I taught a Herbie Hancock lick and he used 11/12 of the notes and the 12th could be definitely a passing note. It was pulled largely from the Dominant Diminished scale. like your illustrations.
awesome, love your channel, thanks!
thumbs up for the vid. I like it and learn alot from you.
Thanks! Glad you found it informative.
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Thank you Mongold
Great lesson and helped my understanding, but would love to have learned the licks since you're playing scale notes but not in order. Or could link to another video with licks lesson. thanks!
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So if you are playing a blues in C the only notes you should be wary of are B,C# and A flat?
+kingstumble I wouldn't go so far as to say you should be wary of any notes, they're not out the get you :). But yes, they definitely don't sound as good as any of the others (unless used as passing notes).
Is it possible to know the staff notation melody against each C7 ,F7 and G7?. I am finding it difficult.
thank you!!!!!!!!
Very helpful vdo
Thank you! :)
so does 3 semi tones below's blue scale always sound good?
Useful
I just don't get the idea of the chords not being part of the scale - a blues scale has no "7", so how can you tell what's the "7" in C7/F7/G7? and I also noticed that the chords have notes in them that aren't part of the blues scale . Can anyone explain?? I'm new to music theory
Actually the chords shown in his video aren't really built on the blues scale (not like when you build chords on a diatonic scale). The "7" behind the chord letters basically says that the chord is dominant. So C7 is C dominant seventh (if you want to dig deeper in music theory, the 7 is actually a minor seventh (two semitones below the root note), in contrast to the major seventh (1 semitone below the root note), and the major seventh will make the chord "major seventh chord" (M7 chord) like in CM7, FM7, GM7)
sorry to comment so much but have you seen or used the Android app piano assistant I m not sure how it works it has a tone sensor that picks up the piano and puts it into standard sheet music format. love the a blues scale against the c family of chords
Never heard of it.
Any tips for fingerings on those blues and pentatonic scales?
Love you much
I'm sure you know this and I found this out through experimentation. I played Georgia for years using F blues. One day I realized it was D blues D F G Ab A C. I noticed when I just let the melody flow I was largely n D blues ,as long as I was playing n the key of F. I was playing along with Hugh Laurie's take on it and also found a PDF of his version and from what I see he uses D blues alot. There is no major 2 or major 3rd or G or A in F blues but D blues solves that. We guitar players do the Lester Flatt run in G. Awhile back I noticed this was a displaced E blues run. E GA Bb B D E. Is the E blues scale. 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 Now start from G A Bb B D E G. If I'm playing in g this a common boogie base and in the
right I use it as part of the melody.Just some thoughts.
Please make more tutorial about jazz piano Bebop...thanks
Why is the A blues scale suitable in a C blues chord progression??? PLEASE i really want to know
Cause A is the relative minor of C major
I have been handicapped all my life. any suggestions on how to play with my right hand only. I have a Yamaha psr s650 at the moment. thank you....... Tony
+Tony Kroah Hi Tony. Very sorry to hear that! I will make my next video on that topic, so stay tuned.
+Tony Kroah: Sure. You can do some great blues or jazz soloing just with your right hand. In fact, when you think about it, that's what lead guitarists do. Actually it's pretty cool. Without having to worry about having to provide a chordal underpinning, it frees you up to focus on perfecting your solo groove.
Obviously, it'd be great to find some musicians to collaborate with. But for practicing, there's various rhythm machines, Band In A Box, and the great Jamey Aebersold Music Minus One CDs. Also, your keyboard may have some useful 'comping' capability.
+Dave March Dave I'm so sick of laying down 20 bars of c, f & g. it was a nice starting point but I know I can do better. my other keyboard is a Yamaha psr 6300. both are nice but the workstation excels immeasurable.
Hello Tony, I did play guitar for over 30 years, I got a stroke 3 years ago ( left hand side paralysed since then ) I started to play piano this year ( needed to have music in my life and a challenge ! ) :-)
@ MangoldProject : Thank you Sir for a great video about the blues scale, very informative and motivating !
I'd love to see that as well Sir !
How does using to scales work for a blues in minor key? like this works for major blues chards.
I Malcolm Hello Malcolm. Yes, but for a minor blues you cannot mix and match the same two scales. For example, an A minor blues could use the A blues scale but not the C blues scale. A more detailed answer would require a separate video, which gives me an idea ... :)
Hey Mangold Project, your lessons are really simple to follow for beginners like me and has such wealth of information.Thanks a ton for sharing. I also want to chip in my understanding of the combined scale you talk about in the video.We can look at the C+A blues scale as a ( C minor scale + A note).These exactly contain all the notes as in the combined scale. Right?
Jijo Thomas Hi Jijo. You didn't mention which C minor scale you're referring to, but I think the combined scale should contain more than just C minor + A. C blues + A blues has C, D, Eb, E, F, Gb, G, A, Bb. The note E for example would not be part of the C minor scale.
Great video! What if you wanted to add some vertical soloing over the chords? Would you be also using the F blues and the G blues scales?
+ST EL Are you talking about vertical vs horizontal playing on the guitar neck? The concepts presented here should apply no matter what positions you choose. As for the scales you mentioned (F, G), it will depend on the key you're in. If you're doing a blues in C you'll end up using the C and A blues scales (or the C and A minor pentatonic scales).
I am talking about when you are doing a blues in C, apart from the C and A blues scales that you demonstrated, can you also use the F blues scale and the G blues scales when soloing over the F7(IV) and G7(V) chords that are part of the blues in C?
Thank you for this video! I always love your playing and I'm hoping to learn piano by slowly watching through your videos (and practice). I don't quite understand why the a scale and the c scale go together although I think they sound great together. Can you explain why or is that not the style of teaching you want to present? Is there any basic knowledge I should go learn to bring to your videos?
Again, really inspiring and thank you.
purplegoat2500 I honestly don't know. I think "why" is not always a good question in music, because I doubt there are many good answers to be had. I could try and think in terms of intervals and ratios of frequencies and psychoacoustics, but that wouldn't make me a better musician (usually). It's much more important to identify *patterns* and *ideas*, because those are going to be the important parts for you to memorize and what makes up the "heart" of a song or a solo. At least that's my very practical attitude towards music. I'm sure someone specializing in music theory or musicology would disagree :).
thanks for the reply! I take it your lessons are self contained then. I'll just watch all of them and see how it goes for me.
a lot of people have opinions but your opinion accompanies truly beautiful playing, so I'll try it out!
+purplegoat2500 Its the scales relative minor, perhaps.
+Jeff Jones That's what I assumed, but Mangold didn't make that obvious in his answer, and as I'm still learning the basics, I know nothing.
Am I right in saying that on the C Blues scales that you're using Eb, Gb, and Bb as grace notes to get that bluesy sound?
So you can't make a c minor chord in the f minor blues scale .
Since c minor requires a G ( fifth) , and this one is not in the F min blues scale .
A c diminished is also not possible ( no G flat in the scale ).....
Is this where modulatio comes in , when you want to play a chord that oesn't belong to the scale ?
Also , your playing a F maj. chord with your left ..whichdoesn't belong to the F blues scale , is this done all the time ,
HOw would you solve that ?
The blues scale does not lend itself very well to functional harmony. Don't try to analyze it in terms of degrees. To loosely quote a famous physicist (Pauli), "Your question is wrong" :)
The "blue notes" create tension on purpose with the underlying minor or major scale they're played over. They're "non-belonging-ness" is their appeal.
How do you get the chords c7 f7 and g7 out of the C blues? And how do you know when to play each chord for a certain length of bars?
The 12-bar blues structure is very well known and widely used. In C major it's C7 F7 C7 C7 F7 F7 C7 C7 G7 F7 C7 C7
So what does it mean to solo over a blues scale?
I have a few questions. If I want to use that technique for piano soloing should I use left hand chords then the scale on right or should I use right hand chords and scale and left hand walking base?
I'm too confuse about it because there is so many players do right hand chords and left hand pattern then others do left hand chords then scale or melody in right hand?
Probably the former.
can you please do a minor version?!! does using c and a work in minor?
+Darkmadbunny It does but with some modifications - I'll make a note to do a video on this at some point.
MangoldProject thank you so much!
I have a music composition assignment due in 4 weeks and I am really stuck so that would be really appreciated thank you :)
What is the right fingering for these scales?
Depends on the key, of course. Let's take C:
A blues scale, starting at the note C: 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 ...
C blues scale, starting at the note C: there are several options. Try:
1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 1 2 ...
or
1 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 ...
MangoldProject Thanks been playing the scales for a year and noticed that when I try to do rolls it doesn't work cause of my approach to the finger positions
2:36 C scale
very good tutorial. I have a question. Can i improvise on the F blues scales if the chord is changing to the F7 chord? And G7 and so on?
Yes. There are no rules. Sometimes it will sound too disjoint if you keep changing scales too fast. Try and see if you like it or not.
I didnt know that you could combine two blues scale together...Can you apply this rule only when playing blues? Can i do that if im jazz improvising? + How can you use A scales while playing C minor in the bass. Is it that you only play them quickly without stopping at a A minor note? Because when i improvise with A minor notes to a C minor chord it really sounds awful, is it about the way you play it?
I'd have to hear what you're playing to give you a detailed answer. The short answer is: yes, you should be able to combine them, that's the whole point of this video!
*C COMPOSITE BLUES SCALE!* 😎👍🏾
We will call it MANGOLD,s BLUES SCALE : (In your HONOR Dude)
Use notes I ,II,II#,III,IV,T,V,VI,VIIb,I -----> Fully functional / BLUES Bullet Proof !!!
Use those all 9 notes Scale for all 3 chords(I,IV,&V)intermingled to taste...
I just have one question: si blues played also in different keys or mainly in C? Thanks!
Different keys.
Nice watch. Hamilton?
Hamilton?