4 Scales Every Jazz Musician Should Know 

What a lesson this was. Now give me 2 years to practice and internalize them in 12 keys.

Time codes: 3:55 Blues scale 9:37 Altered scale 11:23 Diminished scale 14:05 Pentatonic scale

I really appreciate that you guys put these episodes on youtube. I've started following you guys on spotify cause I need more, but I would loooove more video episodes!

If I spent as much time practicing what you guys talk about as I do watching what you guys present, I'd be amazing lol. I now know way more than I can implement. Great stuff, guys!

You all’s channel so extremely underrated! Please don’t stop making videos!

Love that you guys are back. Need my daily Open Studio fix

You both are such an inspiration...even as guitarist ! 😃...thx for your work

I love your podcast and the guided practice sessions! Great to see you back on here together 🙃

Nice banter and playing , fellas.

I’ve watched this a LOT of times. (Just watched it now*). Always great to refresh. 🙏🏾

Wow this video really reached out to me. I could watch these two all day

You guys are amazing, thank you so much.

I can’t get enough of you guys! Thank you

Missed you guys! Cheers for the great content as always

Best RU-vid channel for jazz musicians ❤️

This is gold nuggets just served up 🙏

I grew up in Olivette in the 60s and YOU GUYS WEREN"T THERE yet. Hardly anybody was there. You have transformed the ST. Louis area music environment. I mean...the scene.

This video is gold!

This is great! Thank you!

Big fan of your videos guys!!

I don’t know a lot of theory but I love jazz chording from Herbie in the 70’s , but this half hour has sealed it for me, like I was right all along I know what I love .A big thankyou.

Wow! I had to slow down the keyboard to .25%, but now I’m beginning to have a better understanding of “the blues scale” and I got to learn some cool licks! Thanks to both of you!

You guys are the Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers of music, great stuff!

Adam looking fit bro. Good work!

Thanks guys, another great video! Can u do a vid on the harmonic minor scale? And applying it over the 5, in a minor 2-5-1?

I took Gary Burton's improvisation course from Berklee and he did not believe in teaching any other scales except for 10 specific ones until you could demonstrate some kind of improvisational proficiency; The 7 modes (in order of brightness to darkness), diminished scale, altered scale, and Lydian b7. Reason being that in the beginning, with scales like blues, pentatonic, etc, it's way too tempting to let your fingers pick out notes instead of your brain creating the melodies... but of course all other scales are covered afterwards. Either way thank you for the vid, was quite informative.

lol, look like a 9' piano w/o the keys...Adam..I love your courses Jazz chords for beginners and the New one you just put out "Magic of voicing". Think I'm gong 2 get it

Impressive!

Wow! This altered scale of a note a half step down works over a Min/Maj 7. For example a B altered scale sounds great over a Cmaj/min 7 or cm6/9. I just tried this on Nica's Dream and it worked! Bbmaj/min 7 with an A altered and then a "G Altered" over the Abmaj/min7

Major and minor 3th :)) Thanks

WOW I'm seeing some interesting things to do with the altered scale. I noticed that the C altered scale can be played over C9 and over Gb7. I noticed that the Gb alter scale can be played over a Gb7 and C9. This is cool!! I stopped at the altered scale

Hey There! is that a midi keyboard you are using peter? which one if you don't mind me asking. mad luv!

These guys are today’s torches of jazz education. 15 stars to Adam Mannes and Peter Martin. Holla!h!

??? Does anyone know about some kind of poster or resource that has , For Guitar , These 4 scale fingerings, associated chords , & when to best use them in context ???

Can you post a link for the app?

There are two whole tone scales which both can be started on six different tonics. There are four half tone whole tone scales each of which can be used for three different keys. This knowledge helps the Jazz soloist to more efficiently organize his approach to practicing the materials. Playing an F major pentatonic over a Bb major seventh chord is a simple way to achieve the celestial sounds that Bird identified while avoiding the tonic.

I was waiting for this video...

I'm curious as to the pianos you use. I've had a Yamaha P125 but it's getting to be limiting. And the keys rattle...badly...some of them. Is this an appropriate question? If I have 1500 to spend, where should I look? I'm juicing on the Yamaha P515 or the Roland RD88.

Is it only me thinking the table make the piano look like a Grand piano? :) Great video as always!

Can anyone tell me what type of keyboard/digital piano Peter is using in this video?

This video is amaaaszing! Straight schooling us jazz peasants! If there are any teachers here please send this video to your students! PLEASE DO SO!!!!

You and Adam are phenomatastic. I just made up that word.

I see the half-whole diminished as whole-half up from any degree of the rootless b9 synonym of the diminished chord. I'm not sure how much of that is guitar "shapiness" and seeing the neck, but that's what I see. Not saying I don't start/end lines, and generally relate things to the root of the dominant, not like that at all. I just mean in terms of the mental layout, where the notes are without having to think about it.

When I first tried to learn the blues, pre-internet time, I naturally played the major blues scale before I found out about the minor blues scale. The reason is simple: I was first introduced to a bluesy sound not through the blues, but various pop songs with piano (think Elton John, even Guns n' Roses, I mean the list is very large), and I noticed that they commonly use the major blues scale from the key of the song. This is what guitarists do when the play the minor pentatonic over everything (which is like the major blues scale starting on a different note). If you gave me a blues I would have done the same, and it sounded fine. But I didn't realise what is really specific to the blues sound. I remember the first time I actually played the minor blues scale over a major blues, thinking It cannot be right as it doesn't "match" the chords, but at the same time realising that for the first time it REALLY sounded like the blues, and that it was what I had been missing.

What was the bonus scale?

Impressionante

What about whole tone scale?

Thank u very much, btw, I didn’t understood the pentatonic scale, is not the same as blues?

Fingerings for each of these scales?

As far as the reverb goes by the way, I would put a couple of rugs down, one under the desk, one in front of the door, and some diffusers behind each of you (and maybe the wall next to you) those will help break up any sound that bounces from the walls so it doesn't all hit the mic at once (creating thick reverb). Adam's voice is hitting the wall behind Peter and going into Peter's mic (then back to his own) and vice versa!

The bonus scale is the Whole tone scale !

I like the reference to Louis Armstrong. Miles Davis wasn't joking when he said "The history of jazz can be said in four words: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker".

What is the intro song??

Love this extra long setup lol

A "B altered scale works over an F13... This is nuts!!! I'm also noticing reversals (it's what I call them). I played a "B Altered" over a Balt chord and F13 and over those same chords I played an "F altered' scale....Someone help, I see the relation, but can't explain it!!

Whats the tool you think about learning music ?

"That's where the plant-based meat is man" hahahaha love that, great video! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

You forgot the bonus scale or did I miss it?

Guys, only with the diminished scale you describe what it actually is. With the other three scales you only add more varieties without the basic. Also very fast doesn’t mean better understandable….

At a distance the guy on the right reminds me of Jack Packard.

Oh, maaan !

🙏🙏

My picks would be diatonic, melodic minor, whole tone and diminished. Using all their modes and sprinkling in some chromatic scale you can get pretty much every sound you'd ever want

And the link to that Beta test thingie

and... the bonus scale?

Four(4) scales that every jazz musician *betta' had know* lol

I think you forgot the bonus scale haha

How do you guys get that keyboard to show up at the bottom of the screen in your videos?

👍

20 fingers+4 huge ears = I’mma need some practice

Yall. Etter teach the people

Really if I was told to use 4 scales only, I'd use the 4 scales of chords only. You know, 6th diminished, minor 6th diminished, dominant 7th diminished, dominant 7th b5 diminished. Also, I like to think about the "altered scale" or "lydian dominant" as the synthesis of the diminished scale with the whole tone scale

5# Augmented scale on maj7 chords - minor third, minor second cycle - C, Eb, E, G, Ab, B, C, Seriously, try it out...

7:10 "You do that if you want to sound like an amateur... actually, if you're really professional you could probably get away with it." Yup... that really is how music is ey.

Whats with the "SIMP" sticker on Adam's Macbook?

In France, they call the blues scale "the scale of many capabilities".

Julie

A trick going up the diminished scale with 4 notes at a time: Just make sure to hit the first note correctly and then plan the dismissed chord starting with that note. It all works out.....you don't even have to think about the notes of the scale.

A D alt works over an Ab13......

who's the bald dude he's dope

95% chat, 4% demo and 1% imparting of and any rationale. Mince.

En el Video hay dos fuentes sonoras superpuestas: Alguien hablando y otro tocando...no es muy didáctico...In the Video there are two superimposed sound sources: Someone talking and another playing...it's not quite didactic...

these two man are only conversation choaches???

great explanations however so fast to understand :(

Who else gotta a problem with the spellings that are appearing on youtube screen nowadays guys 🤔

What pandemic?

blablablablablablaba.... make music, show music, teach music, but come to the point....

You all talk too much. Please teach more with your playing and do less talking.

Jazz is the diarrhea of music.

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What was the bonus scale?

What was the bonus scale?