3 Scales Every Jazz Musician Should Know 

Learning this kind of stuff makes me feel like a beginner again, and I love it. I was classically trained for 13 years before life got in the way, and as grateful as I am for that, it was rigid. We'd spend months perfecting a Chopin for a judged performance, but playing like this just feels freeing. I hope I can master this style one day!

Well taught...years of searching, listening, analyzing, discussing, practicing & performance (pre-RU-vid) condensed into a 6 minute teaching. Priceless.

Excellent as always Peter, would love to see another 6 min video on how you practice them individually and finally how you inter-mix the 3

That might be the most concise music lesson I've ever had. Excellent. Lean, no BS.

You are a great teacher You have your heart into helping musicians. Keep up the wonderful work.

That was awesome Peter, thanks for posting, enjoyed that.

OMG In all my years I never had a better more well thought out lesson In my life. Thanks so much

Am happy to have learnt something new..These channel is Very Educative.. Thank you Teacher.

Awesome lesson! Love the pace!

This was eye opening. Thank you!

Good stuff as always. Interesting "Jazz club" lighting cool for talking Blues and Pentatonic scales.

Thanks for a great Tutorial! Much appreciated !

Six minutes packed with goodness. Excellent!

Terrific stuff ... Thank you

Great lesson.

Thank you so much! This was a missing piece that I needed.

I hit the like button even before the video actually starts. These guys are amazing. Thanks for the content! Thanks

Loved it. Lots of jazz in 6 minutes!

The path to many long solo lines of rich tensions is way shorter than I anticipated. I can't believe this material was right under my nose all these years. It seems a lot of this could have been derived from the Persichetti or the Messiaen harmonic technique books, but for some reason I just never did (or wasn't led to) the short walk from there to here. 😢 Much missed joyful playing and reinventing the wheel with just a handful of licks with juat one of these scales seems like it could have flourished into a nice gig much earlier. Listening to this is like a chiropractic adjustment in the musical part of my brain, 25 years overdue. Well I'm still alive and there's always today at least. Time to get to the piano. Thank you so much for putting this down.

Thanks for the scale.

Great stuff!

Thank you very much.

1:55 Wait, wait, wait, hold on..back it up, just a little bit, Peter. You forgot to mention one of the best parts about learning diminished scales. ... And that is ... The shortcut, or the simplification of it all. Just as there are only three (3) primary diminished chords [and diminished 7th chords], since all of the notes are spaced out evenly, similarly, there are only three primary diminished scales to learn as well. If you can figure out & learn the first 3 dimished scales (C, C#, D... literally, just those 3), then you've already learned all 12. Just remember what fingering you had used, when you get to the other nine scales, and you're all done. Also, you may want to try different fingering patterns to discover what order/sequence works best for you. 🎵 😎 🎹

Great video!

Brilliant. That's what you call a No-Bull Lesson! It's a Noble Lesson too!! And a No Ball Lesson.....OK, I'll stop now! 🤣

The short format is great!

You're solid!

Thank you Greetings from Madrid Peace and 🎹

Brilliant

Great and important video. Is it possible for you to explain what you are doing with the left hand?

Lovely 💘

Another great one! Hey are those new glasses? They look really good.

Love you guys, thanks for this. Would love to know what voicings you played over that C minor pentatonic riff.... sounded mostly quartal?

Peter is a genius🤯🤯🔥🔥

Haha!! A “post credit” scene! Bravo!! 👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾

Great video! One thing that always puzzles me: why is so little attention paid by teachers to either the major mode of the pentatonic (1 2 3 5 6) and/or especially the major blues scale (it's called other things, too: 1 2 b3 3 5 6). That last one seems so important, but so few people even mention it. @Open Studio? Anyone?

Can you show us how to use the Barry Harris Dom -5 chord scale with some kind of application ? I get all the others it’s just that one .

Damn: that was dope.

Peace and Bass to you, my brother.

Nice

So glad I found this channel. I don't have the chops yet, but these are great videos for starting out. How many half diminished scales are there? I know it's a stupid question, I'll find out. Are the Pentatonic scales also to be practiced in every key? Or are their certain keys used more than others? Same question with the blues scale.

I know the video was about the scales… but I’m gonna go back now and try to figure out that quartal-ish left hand comping :)

I checked out the fingering of the scales using 0.25x speed. Had a great chuckle regarding the audio. ;-)

This is crack. You're a god. Thank you.

Nice, thank you!! Where can I get that tee shirt???

Someone’s been using my setup 😂. 👍👏

Will definitely add this to my practice routine! Quick question: What is generally the reasoning behind using the #3 finger to cross under as opposed to the #2 finger in situations where you could theoretically use either one? I find both to be fairly comfortable, but just genuinely wondering. I started out as a flute player, so the patterning of piano fingerings has been one of the biggest learning curves as far as having a less cut-and-dry "push this key (combo) with this (these) finger(s) to get this note every time" kind of security, haha! I know some general principles such as "keep the long fingers to the black keys and the thumb and pinky to white keys when possible" etc.

I want that shirt

thanks for the lesson ! as a guitar player i'm really interested in what you're doing with the left hand, especially in C-7 context, tryin' to figure out how to make these kind of tensions while playing on only 1 chord. Pleeeeeease

Great video! Where’s the link in how to practice the scales? And what’s your shirt say?

what digipiano are you using here? sound good!

I’m not a piano player, and the scales are awesome…but all that LEFT HAND STUFF!😳

some fine shit

Someone's been using my set up... arrgh!!! ... 🤣🤣🤣

What piano is that?

In the diminished scale, why do you consider that the root is C but you resolve on a F chord?

damn where can i get that hat?

man i need t connect with you been watching you. long time

What kind of keyboard is that?

4:20 dude thought he could photobomb but hes blurred out

I would say minor melodic, blues and major scale

Your pentatonic scale sounds different than mine. I guess mine is broken 😆

It's weird, but the way I think of the diminished scale is a dorian flat 2, sharp 4, add sharp 3.

Can you show something that soubds good though...?

Someone has been using my setup 🤣🤣

That was quick.; too quick to realize that the symdim scale (W-H-W-H etc) over C dominant is Db, E G, or Bb That gets you the C 13th b9 +9 +11

Why does he keep calling Bb a dom7th? Isn't that a m7? I know it's in a C7 chord but there's no dominant 7th note right?

Ok.. i realise im more interested in the left hand stuff going on 😂

Funny ending

Peace AND ciao?? What are you nuts!!?

Peter , you are faster than flash

Haha funny end

Great fuckin video.

Man Im so glad they didnt kick him off the show

✌️& 🎹

Joe Pass would have said major, minor and dominant