Advanced blues piano tutorial - playing blues in E

[jirozzz]

i have learned A LOT from your videos i mean seriously your so good at teaching well done mate!

[ChickityChoice]

Hey Bill. I like your book, I've gone through all of it except for the comping section which I'm still working on. I had a question about this video: The blues scale I'm familiar with (in C) is C D# F F#G A#... but the blues scale you are playing in this video has more notes? Could you tell me what that is about? Thanks.

~Jason

[billhiltonbiz]

@ChickityChoice Good question! One of the problems here is that people often use the term "blues scale" to mean either the core blues scale (which is the one you mention), and what you might called the "filled out" version, which includes other notes that sound OK in a blues context. Sorry if that was confusing. Glad you like the book, and by all means shoot over any other questions you have.

[AndrewDInSydney]

@billhiltonbiz Bill, I agree with Jason in that eg. the E blues scale I learnt was E, G, A, Bb, B, D.

When first watching this video I was rocked a bit by your version - but having read your response to Jason all is good:)

[crazyghetto978818]

4:53 Kinda sounds like Thelonious Monk :P

[korgtri]

Really enjoy your tutorials. Another reason guitarists prefer E is the ability you have to let the open E and A strings ring out no matter where you play on the fret board

[billhiltonbiz]

@korgtri Very good point - thanks!

[chopper84a]

nice tutorials. isnt there a way to have software display which note your playing though? not a critisism, just a thought.

[billhiltonbiz]

@chopper84a That's actually a really good question. I have looked into it, and it would be be pretty easy to do.

The reason I've held off - so far - is that I've watched other folks' vids where they do this, and it seems like information overload. Each option has a problem: live video only = can be hard to follow; just animation = lifeless; both = too much information. So right now I'm sticking with the first, which I reckon is the lesser of three evils. May change, though!

[bammerwiki]

good stuff