How to play a jazz piano solo with c, f, g blues scales. The mixodorian blues scale combines three scales into one scale. I call this the mixodorian blues scale because it combines the three scales above into one scale. This scale is much used above all in blues,pop,jazz,soul,funk,rhythm and blues,rock. Nov 06, 20 the blues scale for piano and keyboards andrew d. Learn how to play the a blues scale on piano free video. See more ideas about blues scale, guitar lessons and guitar chords. In the above example, it doesnt matter what key the cmaj7 chord is in, we can use both scales to improvise over it. How to play a jazz piano solo with 3 easy blues scales featured article, how to, instruments, keyboards, teachers resources october 30, 20 march 29, 2019 drew roberts its important to learn music theory if you want to get into jazz improvisation. Since the keyboard clearly lays out every note, studying theory with a piano is like traveling in a foreign land with a roadmap. The chordscale system looks at individual chords in isolation and allocates scales to each individual chord. The blues scale for use with piano chord progressions. Blues scales are used in many musical kinds for example in blues, jazz, rock and roll, funk, soul rhythm and blues, dance, pop.
The blues scale for use with piano chord progressions youtube. The major blues scale for jazz piano georgia on my mind. The mixodorian blues scale for blues soloing learn jazz. Major, minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, pentatonic major, pentatonic minor, pentatonic blues, pentatonic read more. Those 3 scales can be spelled in sharps or in flats. We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the blues scale, and others. How to form the blues scale on piano piano scales youtube. G major blues scale charts for piano music motivated. Piano scales exercises practice scales with both hands. Just the blues scale can be considered a basis for a particular key blues. Blues scales are the most famous sounds of the xx century music. We do not need to know what key a particular chord is in, in order to choose a scale to play over that chord. Lets learn the blues scales on piano and keyboard in every key. How to, keyboards, teachers resources december 20, 2012 may 20, 2019 drew roberts.
Public domain the scales are broken down into 6 groups. Sep 11, 2015 there are 12 major scales by sound and 15 major scales by sight. Here are the correct fingerings for all 15 major scales for the piano. The mixodorian blues scale for blues soloing learn. 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 scrolling down. Volume 2 has 14 jazz piano exercises and tricks of the trade, and quite a bit of it is calypso jazz piano related material, including some monty alexander and michel camilo style grooves. The real idea here is not just to play the scales ascending and descending, but to improvise using the notes of the scales. Free minor pentatonic blues scale chart saras music studio. Knowing how to play piano scales effectively will help you improvise as well as create song melodies.
This book contains all the modal scales major and minor included for piano with fingers number listed in a handy spreadsheet. These make great handouts for piano teachers to use with students. The chordscale system how chords and scales are related. To play and improvise jazz piano, you must have a good knowledge of jazz piano scales and jazz piano modes. The scales are used often for composing melodies and for improvisation. To learn how to play other piano scales, such as major, minor,chromatic and pentatonic scales, visit our main piano scales page. If you are serious about learning music theory or composing, its helpful to have a keyboard or piano on hand, regardless of your main instrument. For right hand fingering, start on the a with your thumb. If you have tried transcribing blues in the past you may have found it difficult because you were only aware of the minor blues scale. Mar 10, 2015 when we combine all three scales, we get a scale that looks like this. Download free printable sheet music for the scale with fingering in pdf format. It has more note choices than the blues scale, and can be used to create a more authentic, informed jazz solo over a blues.
There are a total of 430 finger exercises in this book. Since our weather has been so blue up here, i thought it might be fun to work on our improv skills with minor pentatonic blues scales. Scales and arpeggios for piano pdf 3 general information 4 misc. The numbers that you can see above the notes are indicating which fingers the notes should be played with. In rock and pop music, solos or improvisations use pentatonic scales very much. How to use the blues scale on piano riff ideas from paddy milner duration. Hanonle pianiste virtuosepart ii, scales and arpeggios. Home blog the mixodorian blues scale for blues soloing. Le scale modali per pianoforte barletta, giustino imslp.
How to improvise using piano blues scale how to play. How to play a jazz piano solo with 3 easy blues scales featured article, how to, instruments, keyboards, teachers resources october 30, 20 march 29, 2019 drew roberts its important to learn music theory if you want to get into jazz improvisation, but an easy place to start is the blues scale. On this page you can find full length video lessons which cover all of the essential theory. 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. Metodo di studio delle scale come studiare le scale al piano 2. The more that you practice these essential scales for jazz and blues piano players, the more comfortable that youll feel playing them and the more sounds that youll create. This chart highlights the keys of g blues scale on piano. The blues scale for pianokeyboards digital sheet music. Printable number system charts of majorminor chords. These are four of the synthetic scales used in jazz. Blues scale in general it can be used on every chord but above all on min7 th and dominant 7th chord. Adding a blue note to the regular pentatonic scale result in the pentatonic blues scale.
I have quite a few students who are fans of playing the blues. Almost all music genres being born in the last hundred years come from blues above all in notclassical music. This will help you learn how to play melodies and build chords on a piano within the key of g blues. Learning how to play all the scales on the piano is a good way to improve your piano playing.
C minor blues scale can be used over all the chords in a minor blues cm, fm, d, g7b9. Soloing scales for chords used in jazz improvisation. Heres a little something that ive been working with in the studio this week. Includes an indepth 12 page explanation that leads to complete understanding of the fundamentals of major and minor scales, chords, arpeggios and cadences plus a clear explanation of scale degrees and a twopage guide to fingering the scales and arpeggios. The scale is made up of the notes a, c, d, e sharp, e, g, and a. See george russells lydian chromatic concept, oliver messiaens harmonic concept, nicolas slonimsky, schoenberg, dave liebman, hindemith etc. There are 12 major scales by sound and 15 major scales by sight. For example, the major scales feel happy and bright. The major scales and the minor scales are the two most commonly used musical scales. Aug 22, 20 pentatonic scales can be so played more freely compared to the other ones. My number one recommendation on this site for learning how to play the piano is piano for all.
Virtual piano chords and scales, alternate chord positions, voicings and modes. Pentatonic scales can be so played more freely compared to the other ones. Practicing, using the exercises found in this booklet or in vol. Jan 31, 2014 free minor pentatonic blues scale chart. I have had very limited success getting my students to improvise with the blues scale. Exercises with fingerings for two octaves of the major scales. These scales are for obvious reasons perfect when playing blues on the piano. The relative minor for a major key falls on the 6th tone of the major scale. Jazz is an experimental genre and guitarists are constantly exploring new scales and modifying old ones in their improvisation. Scale, chord, arpeggio and cadence studies in all major and minor keys presented in a convenient twopage format. Piano fingerings for all major scales learn jazz standards. They are written differently, but they sound the same. Each scale is provided as a separate pdf download with finger numbers above each note. Soloing scales from any chord in any one category may be used to improvise a solo for any other chord in that category.
Piano pentatonic blues scales overview with pictures. Learn how to play the c sharp minor melodic scale on the piano in this piano lesson. Download our free pdf versions of each scale with fingering. Download this pdf with all the major scales and fingering for piano. Music in the major keys have an excited and cheerful sound. Watch the free video lesson, then download the printable ldf sheet music to play along with at your piano. Do you know that all chords are derived from scales.
Since the blues was being sang by the african slaves through singing in the fields about their pain and their distress you can imagine that this scale does not work at the same way like the major or minor scale do. For instance, in the c blues scale the notes are c eb f gb g bb c. The image to the right shows both the c and a relative minor of c blues scales. Using the blues scale in other contexts the blues scale can be used in any context, on any tune. Jazz piano education is through the ears, but books like this can help. Different scales may evoke certain emotions or moods. I am always getting asked by piano players, guitarists and solo instrumentalists to show them the blues scale. Throughout the book there are patterns of these two scales both individually and together creating a huge library of improvisational melodic lines to choose from.
If you are new to jazz piano, check out the lessons on the major and minor scales. Major pentatonic scale the major pentatonic scale shares five notes with the major scale. Move up the scale finger by finger until you hit the e. Armed with your knowledge of the major and extended blues scales, listen and transcribe from your favourite players.
The scale studies are broken down into intervals and the exercises contain three and fourpart chords, playing. Move up the scale finger by finger until you hit the e sharp with your fourth finger. Hanonle pianiste virtuosepart ii, scales and arpeggios 18. How to play the c minor blues scale on the piano piano. You can learn how to form other melodic and harmonic minor scales at our main piano music scales section. These four scales also happen to be symmetrical in their intervallic construction. This video shows a musicians hands as he explains and demonstrates how to play the c minor blues scale.
Play scales very slowly with big bows keeping an even tone across the bow stroke practice scales with a drone pitch using the first note of the scale memorize the scales occasionally use a tuner to help you tune each pitch. Music educational books and sheet music downloads for blues, jazz, funk, latin, gospel, rock, celtic styles for instruments including piano, keyboards, sax. The pentatonic scale pentatonic scales have only five notes penta means five. 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 scale syllabus can help you uncover new sounds. Go from piano blues scales to piano lessons piano keyboard home page. A blues scale consists of 6 different notes, namely the root, flat 3rd, 4th, flat 5th, 5th and flat 7th of the major scale. Continue to part two of this piano blues scale lesson. They think that learning the blues scale will help them to write and perform blues style music and they are correct. A musician should have a toolbox of other scales and chord tones to draw on during his solo, says bill dicosimo, a jazz pianist and chair of music and entertainment. The exercises are for the right hand, see link to lefthand exercises at the bottom of page.
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