Blues piano Lesson - The Blues Scale {Beginner}

[phionahchin2000]

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[neckroopimp]

thx sp much for this vid..how do u know wat are the other blues scales in the other notes?like g blues scale on so on..?

[CapitaineBuisson]

please just on one video describe the right hand too i learn all the scale you give but you never show how to do the correct bass line with the right hand :)

[CapitaineBuisson]

@CapitaineBuisson shit i said right hand but it's left hand ><

[SwingDanceBand]

I think that you should add what the left hand is doing so that players can hear the chord change and how to play them

[Dav123xyz]

Nice one MG

Taken nice and slowly so we can catch it.

Thanks very mcuh

[Darkside626]

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[iliketomoveitmoveit9]

Yeah , what are you playing left hand? Octaves?

[simon9434]

what are you playing with your left hand?

[Nick421ish]

@bluesdriver40. Dude thats awesome I get it, it makes the song sound flowing

[KudzuRunner]

The tricky thing about teaching the blues scale on the piano is that the Eb is a poor approximation of the actual blues pitch, which is roughly an eighth to a quarter-tone ABOVE the Eb. That's where blues singers, blues guitarists, and good blues harp players pitch it.  A rising edge on the note--which guitarists like B.B. King get by "squeezing" the note, putting movement on it--is a further subtlety. That's why some blues pianists hit the Eb and E simultaneously.

[credenza1]

@KudzuRunner That is an interesting fact, which I have not heard before. Something to do with the well-tempered scale on a piano?

[jarhead1857]

Fun but not beginner.

[jkman10]

How would this work for blues in other keys? Or is this universal? So like for discussion sake we can call this the "C" blues scale. How would you play the blues if you were in F major? Is there certain intervals you flatten or sharpen?

[oddjob123456]

@jkman10 Hi mate, if your still wondering, what I do is miss out the 2nd and 6th notes in the scale and flatten the 3rd, 5th and 7th notes, not sure if this is the best way but it gives that blues scale pattern in the different scales

[NBAballaz]

@jkman10 you would simply play the notes of the F minor pentatonic scale

[sinancans]

i love english accent

[vguandbloopers]

can u tell us how to do like a basic blues bass part?

[Deborah0702]

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.

[guishard]

thanks man! seriously

[gschupfter]

Real great man !! thank you so much !

I knew nothing about piano and today i got a keyboard :D

One Question do you also got such an easy tutorial for left hand ?

thanks

[nilsimsek]

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!

[CheeseEnthusiast]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. Man I love them blues scales. I'm kinda natural at it I guess. Love it. So much fun.

[Imervalle]

Hey i like your vidio buth..... I got problem doing it xD Can u say me which chords and stuff u are using there

[bob880poe]

wonderfull , thank you very much , Great work for the world

[Doumbeck]

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.. :)

[MusicGuru12]

Thanks for the comment.

I'm afraid it's perhaps a little habbit of mine to add in chromatic approaching chords. Good comment though :)

[ancientsolar]

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 :D

[harrygats]

@MusicGuru12 level gap mann dont understand what you two are talking about

:p

[ausguy707]

I notice you use the A below middle C at the end of it?

[icy22]

it was a b, and probly just because its the major 7th tone. just a different sound.

[veenyadee]

nice :)

[XFile342]

i dont play the piano, just the guitar, but isnt the flattened fifth a blue not or something just wondering

[DJAKshizzit]

flattened fifth.. sharpened fourth.. whats in the name? (and please dont spam me with music theories about how different they are. I GET IT.)

[bluesdriver40]

The bluenotes are the flattened 3rd and the flattened 7th.

The flattened 5th is just a passing note

[Deborah0702]

what do you mean a passing note???

[bluesdriver40]

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.

[jesse9999999]

the C minor pentatonic doesnt have the flattened 5th. but this video is good.

[Dav123xyz]

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

[poioFumegante]

yeah, it's begginer's stuff but very very VERY usefull :) thanks for the ideas

[KeyPiano]

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??

[RL82]

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.

[MusicGuru12]

Thanks for the explanation =)