The Magic of the Blues Scale

Name: The Magic of the Blues Scale
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Learn to to improvise Blues, Jazz, Rock and other Pop styles by mastering a simple 6 note scale.

Created byStan Prentice

Last updated 5/2018

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What you'll learn

By the end of the course, you will be able to use the Blues Scale to improvise in any key, and gain a better understanding of Popular style playing.

Course content

3 sections • 9 lectures • 49m total length

Introducing The Blues Scale8:49
Learn how the blues scale, an altered minor-scale, defines the blues sound alongside common chord progressions. Practice the C blues scale fingering and muscle memory to improvise across all keys.
Notes In The Blues Scale
Why The Blues Scale Is So Cool5:37
Explore why the blues scale sounds cool in popular music. Learn how improvising over a 12-bar blues in C major—using a minor-based blues scale with bent notes—creates the blues sound.
A Little Bit of Theory4:07
Learn a little music theory behind the blues scale, a five-note variation of the minor pentatonic scale, with an augmented fourth between the fourth and fifth in C.
Pentatonic Scale

The Keys of G - D - A5:28
Learn the blues scale in keys using the root-augmented fourth formula. Start in C, move up a fifth to G and D, then practice slowly and speed up.
Keys of E - B - F# - C#4:50
Expand blues scale mastery by playing in keys E, B, F#, and C#, moving up a fifth and exploring the root augmented fourth; note rare keys like B natural.
Steps in the Blues Scale.
Keys of Ab - Eb - Bb - F4:56
Explore the blues scale across keys via the circle of fifths, detailing the root, minor third, fourth, augmented fourth, and flat seven, and playing blues in all keys.
Improvising The Blues Scale With Chords5:17
Improvise with the blues scale by using the scale in the current key over all chords in a blues progression, so you don’t switch scales, demonstrated in C and D.

Improvising The Blues Scale Over The Chords
Improvisation Techniques3:36
Learn blues scale improvisation with right-hand phrasing to create honky-tonk and funky tones, using octaves and octave trills, alternating single notes and chords, and combining scale runs for expressive solos.
Closing Thoughts7:03
Shows how the blues scale enhances improvisation on piano and instruments across keys and chord changes, blends with major and minor scales, and fuels rock, pop, gospel, and blues solos.

Requirements

Student should have some familiarity with the Major & Minor scales. Reading the Treble Clef is helpful, but not required.

Description

The Magic of the Blues Scale lies in how it works across all genres of Popular Music to make your playing sound GREAT!

The Blues Scale is unique. Different from other scales and modes, it has been used by popular musicians from Louis Armstrong to Elton John and beyond. The secret is that it is easy to learn, quick to master, and profoundly usable in almost all styles of music.

This course makes it simple. SEE the notes. Hear the demonstrations! Learn and practice, and you will be playing the Blues in very short order. THIS COURSE SHOWS YOU HOW TO MAKE YOUR IMPROVISATIONS NOT SUCK!

If you don't learn to improve your playing by learning the Blues Scale, YOU GET YOUR MONEY BACK! No questions asked! 30 day guarantee!

Who this course is for:

People with some musical experience, who want to learn Pop styles, such as Blues, Rock, or Jazz.

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 19min

Nuts and Bolts4 lectures • 21min

Putting the scale to use2 lectures • 11min

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