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One of the essential characteristics of the blues piano sound is a 4-note chord type called a dominant 7th chord. In this section, we’ll present a user-friendly approach that will enable beginner piano students to quickly construct these chords.
Sep 11, 2023 · Learn how to play blues piano, including the 12-bar blues structure, swing rhythms, and improvising using the major and minor blues scales.
- Minor Blues Scale
- Major Blues Scale
- Major Blues Scale & Minor Blues Scale Connecting Scales Exercise
- Blues Improv with Major Blues Scale and Minor Blues Scale
- Putting It All Together
The first scale you should learn if you want to improvise blues piano is the minor blues scale. Here is the C Minor Blues Scale: And here is the sheet music:
The Major Blues Scale, or what I call the Gospel Scale, is the second scale you should learn if you want to improvise blues piano in a key. Here are the notes the C Major Blues scale: And here is the sheet music.
If you want to truly be confident improvising with both the Major Blues and the Minor Blues Scale, then you need to practice connecting both of these scales. In the exercise below, we will practice both of these scales over the first four measures of the 12-Bar Blues Form. We’ll play the C Major Blues Scale going up, and the C Minor Blues Scale goi...
How do you actually improvise sweet sounding blues lines with these scales? The key is to mix both scalesas you play a line. For example, you might start you line with a few notes from the Minor Blues Scale, then play a few notes of the Major Blues Scale, and then end with the Minor Blues Scale.
My final recommendation is to make up your own lines using these two scales. If you are struggling to come up with unique sounding lines, you can learn the exact steps I use to create blues lines in our 10 Lesson Blues Challenge 1 (Beginner/Intermediate) and 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 2 (Intermediate/Advanced). If you want inspiration for more blues...
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The 4 Note Blues. Learn the blues scale and you're half way to playing the blues. We're going to introduce the first four notes of it now, played in the right hand. Use the fingering as shown: The first stage is to improvise around these notes. If you're not familiar with improvising don't panic! It's really not such a big deal.
