SOME PPL DONT LIKE BLUES AND SOME DONT LIKE OPERA. I LIKE BOTH. I DONT EVEN KNOW OR UNDERSTAND WHAT MAJOR AND MINOR IS AND YET I COMPOSE TUNES JUST AS A HOBBY. IM VERY NIEVE IN SOME WAYS. IWENT FAR TOO LONG WITHOUT PLAYING THE PIANO AND DIDNT OBSERVE SIGNS AND NUMEROUS OTHER THINGS WHEN I WAS TAUGHT MUSIC AS A CHILD. IM THINKING OF COMPOSING A BLUESY TUNE NOW. AT PRESENT IM JUST PLAYING RANDOM NOTES THEN I RECORD IT AND LISTEN TO IT LATER TO SEE IF I HAVE COME UP WITH ANY GOOD SOUNDS. IM PROBABLY TOO OLD TO GET ANYWHERE WITH MY MUSIC NOW THOUGH.
3 years later, stumbled across a video of a well respected keyboardist (from guerrero mexico) and mentioning about using the blue scales incorrectly, and what better way to expand my knowledge on music than learning new scales and how to incorporate them into basically anything than @ 9:42pm Monday 26th of feburary.
I have such a difficult time with sheet music and am a combination auditory/visual learner and the visual layout of your screen is EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you thank you thank you.
Gillar du linjaler to be fair for this demonstration, it’s ear training. There are obviously places where sight reading is crucial, but for this, improvisation tests your ear and theory skills.
Easy for beginners, they said. You can do it, they said. 2020 edit: still can't improvise. Otherwise i play well, but i still can't get any improvisation going. 2021 edit: i'm finally doing improv! Thank you to Daniel Efford for inspiring me.
Ali Phoenix idk about this guy, but I stopped for 4 years while I was in high school bc I was taking up too many things that I genuinely cared about (theatre, Model UN, student council, etc) and I'd come home super tired, I even had cut some of that stuff out bc it was wayyy too much. Even though I used to play so passionately when I was a kid, it became harder to stay focused when I was that tired. I started playing again the summer after I graduated, and I'm still trying to keep up, but I'm having the same amount of fun that I used to when I was a kid and it feels great.
Been playing classical piano for well over 10 years, and until I picked up a guitar six months ago, I never realized there were even scales outside the standard major/minor and harmonic minor. I learned more about blues and jazz structures in this five minutes than I knew after a decade. Really loving getting this fresh look at music. Thank you!
when he says just play around with it he really means it, i just didnt play with the scale until a week ago but i knew the keys and after just playing and messing around it actually sounds really good
@ᴀɴᴛᴇᴀsᴏᴄɪᴀʟ x well in my opinion welcome to earth rhe planet where jokes are over used, if you find annoying than that sucks cause thats all everyone does use jokes or memes that has been used over and over again and 1 comment will never change that.. but that just my opinion
@ᴀɴᴛᴇᴀsᴏᴄɪᴀʟ x Nah its not that its the fact that the world is split, theres people like me who comment it and read comments and dont really care if its overused or not cause over all a comment is a comment and no offense but theres people who dont like it or dont understand/ cant stand it. i do get what you mean but in my defence i commented this when it was first a thing which was a few weeks ago if i can remember, you read this today and got borderline pissed off because idk you are tired of seeing something over and over again. and my comment probs pushed you to comment, i understand that. but the world is divided 60 to 40 most people dont really care and some people may find joy or happiness in the comment and some wont and find its "distasteful" or "overused" now you seem like a nice person and i aint mad i just hope you can understand why this happens so much. and when i say i know it can be overused i was talking about when comments like "first" or "Like for this, comment for that" comments that have been around for years thats what i meant but the "i felt that" phase on the internet its still kinda new and therefore kinda surprised me to find someone so annoyed by it already
Finally, a tutorial that makes sense!! It's often hard for me to stick with other tutorials from people, but this channel is very easy to learn, understand, and apply.
Hey-I have been a frustrated piano 'player' for over 50 years. You have truly inspired me to study with you. I have vamped for and created, almost accidentally, some reasonable sounds - but after 20 mins I 'slam the lid' in sheer frustration-again. I will start from your beginnings and keep your informed as to progress. Keep up this brilliant inspirational work. Thank you.
Two words: JUST AMAZING. Its been two years since I started playing piano and I was looking for blues melodies and this has helped me alot. There is so much to learn in the field of music that it needs more than one whole life I guess haha. Thank you for the video. 😊😊
Wow! Thank you!! I’ve finally found a video that really explains improvisation simply and effectively. And the 3-2-1-1-3-2 thing is the best method I’ve found for remembering intervals of blue scales notes. The visuals are also really helpful.
Fantastic. Thank you. I am learning the piano in lockdown and was dreading having to learn by playing 'Oh when the saints' or 'Three blind mice' for weeks on end. This blues scale sounds great. Your lesson will let me play stuff which sounds cool while I'm learning and practising. I am very grateful. Please keep posting.
Thanks for the video! It really helped me understand the Blues Scale! Here where I live in Brazil there are no piano teachers who know how to play the Blues or the Boogie, which are my passions! Thanks again!
I could never read or understand notes, i always went by ear, so naturally hearing this gave it their title, and of course everyone if not most people can understand the blues, and well for me looking at it as semitones was Re-cap, it was like "bro this what ive always done, but now i understand why it works that way".
I TOOK PIANO LESSONS WHEN I AS A CHILD FOR 5 YEARS THEN QUIT AND JUST PLAYED THE PIANO NOW AND THEN FOR THE FUN OF IT. I WASNT GREAT EITHER AT READING SOME MUSIC. THEN I WENT MANY YEARS WITHOUT PLAYING THE PIANO AT ALL AND ONLY GOT BACK INTO IT IN MY LATE 50S. I PREFER TO MAKE UP MY OWN TUNES NOW. I RARELY PLAY A TUNE READING PIANO SHEET MUSIC. MY EYE SIGHT ISNT THE BEST EITHER. IVE BEEN TRYING TO PLAY HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NO 2 BUT ITS WAY TOO ADVANCED TO PLAY MORE THAN 2 PAGES OF IT AND EVEN WITH 2 PAGES I STRUGGLE WITH IT AND HAVE TO GUESS SOME AREAS.
This was a great lesson for me man. Thank you we need more music fanatic’s like you around to help us bring out the inner talent in all of us to make great progress on our path to music 🤌😁😎💪💯🔥 this wasn’t complicated to learn at all. I appreciate it a lot keep up the great work g🎶🎵🎼🥂🙏🤜😎
Brilliant lesson! Thank you for sharing this in a way that I could follow it. Your graphic, your narrative, and your explanations of relative minor etc.helped me to wrap my head around the blues scale. Thank you!
Holy shite. This tutorial was on point. That was so easy to absorb! Thanks man! I love the way you're teaching. If this wasn't an effective way to teach, i don't know what is.
Great points I've got from this video: 1/ You can use a blue scale on a major chords progression. C blue scale on C major chord progression. 2/ You can use blue scale of its relative minor to play on major chord progression. Am blue scale on C major chord progression. So I suppose we can combine the two blue scales together (C blue scale and Am blue scale) to make a great solo??
Thank you so much!! I‘ve been trying to sound jazzy or bluesy for a while but never figured it out! It’s sooo helpful and now improvising actually sounds good! Excited to learn more
Thanks for this! As a music teacher, we include improvising in our S1 & S2 music curriculum. I am not so confident at explaining Blues to our pupils, so this is a great introductory resource for me :-)
Thank You so much for your video it is very informative I love the Blues and Jazz I just came across with your video and love it. I just learned how to build the Blues scale from this tutorial thank you.
Hey there, awesome tutorial! Perhaps you could do any video explaining the various tricks you use when improvising? What I mostly mean is that part where you hit the 2 notes at the same time or quickly flip through 3 notes. I do not see this covered in most theory lessons. Thanks!
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OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH, IVE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS FOR 2 YEARS AND THIS IS THE ONLY VIDEO THAT REALLY HELPED. Before this i only copied some variarions of C, F and G, and played the c blues scale, BUT NOW I CAN DO IT IN Bb IF I WANT AND IT SOUNDS GREAT
Hi Simon, thank you very much for showing all this wonderfull material ! Just one thing : when you play have a backing track, just show quickly which chords are played and how to play them. It sounds great and we could learn to play them. Thank you again :-)
How were you able to play the c blues scale over a c7 and g7 chord? Aren't those chords in the c major scale (except obviously the dominant seven not in the c7)
i never play piano with a scale, just using piano tutorial easy songs on youtube but after watching this i was inspired to come up with other levels, i put myself to learn this so wish me luck🙂
Hi. Love it. Which Software do you use to show the piano and notes on top of your keyboard ? (I guess you plub your computer via midi, but was wondering which tool you were using to represent in blue which key you played) THanks !!!!
Thank you! I learned a lot, understood pretty well how to improvise using the Blues Scale and cannot wait to put the lesson into practice. You are an excellent teacher and I think that thanks to your tutorials I will quickly make progress. Keep that level and do not let some comments discourage you. From 15.307 feedbacks 98.31% are positive ;- )
Thanks so much for sharing. Just 1 question- if the blues scale needs to be taken from the relative minor (in the case of the key being a major) why does the blues scale fit so well over the C major without taking it from the A minor? Sorry if that's a stupid question....
Opa, tem como colocar legendas e pedir para traduzir automaticamente, amigo, não é perfeita a tradução, mas as vezes ajuda. Continue assim que é a música quebrando as barreiras da lingua e das fronteiras, amigo. Sempre bom encontrar um colega pianista brasileiro.
I thought E minor blues scale doesnt differ from E major scale? So u mean, for instance, E minor blue scale should go along with G major backing and E minor backing, right? so when can we use MAJOR blue scale? or it doesnt even exist?
Yes thats right, E blues scale should go with E minor backing and G major backing. There is no 'major' or 'minor' blues scale there is just the 'blues scale'... which happens to be minor. So if the backing is in a minor key... just use that same blues scale. And it the backing track is in a MAJOR key, work out the relative minor key and that will give you the necessary blues scale. Hope this helps :)
E minor blues scale and G major blues scale use the exact same notes but simply start on a different note in the scale, just like how C major and A minor are the exact same scale with a different starting note.
