Piano pentatonic blues scales overview with pictures. Since the key of e appears on the circle of fifths diagram as both a major and minor key, the lesson steps explain both ways of constructing this blues scale for this key. These scales are for obvious reasons perfect when playing blues on the piano. You can play fast blues, slow blues, happy blues, and sad blues.
Learn how to play the a blues scale on the piano with this piano lesson. Blues scale in general it can be used on every chord but above all on min7 th and dominant 7th chord. Lets learn the blues scales on piano and keyboard in every key. Adding a blue note to the regular pentatonic scale result in the pentatonic blues scale. At its most basic, a single version of this blues scale is commonly used over all changes or chords in a twelve bar blues progression. For instance, in the c blues scale the notes are c eb f gb g bb c. C minor blues scale can be used over all the chords in a minor blues cm, fm, d, g7b9. Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of blue notes. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all. Students have unlimited access to the interactive blues course, which also includes backing tracks, tabs, and study materials. This document was uploaded by user and they confirmed. This wholetone scale has appeared occasionally and sporadically in jazz at least since bix beiderbeckes impressionistic piano piece in a mist. Song name artist 1 hoochie coochie man muddy waters 2 the thrill is gone b.
Summer reading 8th grade english new albany middle school. They think that learning the blues scale will help them to write and perform blues style music and they are correct. A major feature of the blues scale is the use of blue notes. Using the blues scale in other contexts the blues scale can be used in any context, on any tune. A blues scale consists of 6 different notes, namely the root, flat 3rd, 4th, flat 5th, 5th and flat 7th of the major scale. Louis blues hockey blues news, scores, stats, rumors. This scale is much used above all in blues,pop,jazz,soul,funk,rhythm and blues,rock. Learn the blues scale and youre half way to playing the blues. Blues scales piano right hand fingering s scale music musical. They learn the archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the education authority. To hear each pattern check out the e pentatonic blues scale tab page.
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Blues scales piano right hand fingering s free download as pdf file. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. In a minor blues, the third of the key is always minor, so the a minor blues scale the one which contains e natural isnt used. The blues scale is ubiquitous in modern popular music and informs many modal frames, especially the ladder of thirds used in rock music for example, in a hard days night. In this lesson, you will learn about the blues scale. It emerged in black communities of the united states from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. Keith wyatt online blues guitar lessons artistworks. Brayden schenn scored the tiebreaking goal midway through the third period and jordan binnington made 25 saves as the st. Scale diagrams can also be labeled with either letters or scale degrees. The fretboard is shown with the lowest pitch string at the bottom and the highest pitch string at the top unless youve tuned your instrument differently. A lot of people are under the impression that blues piano is not for beginners. Just the blues scale can be considered a basis for a particular key blues.
Free guitar backing tracks for jamtracks in mp3 format. Learn all 5 patterns of the e pentatonic blues scale and learn to play blues guitar. Blues guitar chords comprehensive blues chord chart. The irreverent cyndi lauper broke through on the pop music scene 30 years ago, and shes still on top. Bear in mind that there are no set rules on which chords you can play, but there are staple chords that have defined the blues sound for over century. Blues piano scales, chords, and chord progressions for. You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. How to play the blues on the piano or keyboard dummies. The 1st construction, using the major scale, starts at lesson 3. The major blues scale is some less common than the minor blues scale, and therefore we start with minor and you will find the major by. Join us in do wntown urbana for the 10th annual cu folk and roots festival. E pentatonic blues scale free pentatonic blues scales. How do you apply the blues to the piano or keyboard. Louis blues won their eighth straight game with a 31 victory over the new.
Usually, we begin improvising on songs like blues in bb or f, satin doll, maiden voyage. Learn how to play the a blues scale on piano free video. The pentatonic blues scale is a great tool for blues guitar and rock guitar soloing and improvising. For right hand fingering, start on the a with your thumb.
King 3 me and the devil blues robert johnson 4 stone crazy buddy guy 5 id rather go blind etta james 6 im tore down freddie king 7 call it stormy monday tbone walker 8 boogie chillen john lee hooker. The scale is made up of the notes a, c, d, e sharp, e, g, and a. In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave. Show me chords that sound good with an e blues scale. Orkestra, musik piano, solo vokal dengan iringan piano, dan opera dijadikan sebagai jenisjenis musik utama, tetapi musik kamar dan musik vokal pujian agak dipinggirkan. All time greatest blues songs various artists songs. Easy blues guitar songs for beginners download the free lesson pdf tabschords here. Were going to introduce the first four notes of it now, played in the right hand. When playing a twelve bar blues in the key of bb, use the bb blues scale anywhere in the chord progression. Download our free pdf versions of each scale with fingering. Move up the scale finger by finger until you hit the e sharp with your fourth finger. Once you purchase a sheet music, you will be able to download the pdf file right away from the website.
On this page there are easy to follow tabs along with audio at three different speeds. The solution below shows the e blues scale, on the piano, treble clef and bass clef. Piano lessons david bruce beginner blues for piano part 1. If youre a beginner on this page, i have good news for you. The treasure of lemon brown by walter dean myersecondary texts. Keith wyatt has developed a rich library with hundreds of online blues guitar lessons. Music educational books and sheet music downloads for blues, jazz, funk, latin, gospel, rock, celtic styles for instruments including piano, keyboards, sax. My 100 very best blues songs of all time our great music. Gershwins second prelude for solo piano is an interesting example of a classical blues, maintaining the form with academic strictness. Learning how to play all the scales on the piano will improve your piano playing. Blues scales for piano scale music chord music scribd. The flat third, flat fifth and flat seventh notes of the scale are the blue notes of the.