Get the Pentatonic Scales and Blues scales PDF here 👉 www.pianofs.com/downloads (Scales, Chords, Theory & more!) A WORD ON FINGERS 👇 The best way to practise these scales is to use them musically and so it’s not particularly useful to run them up and down like we do regularly with major and minor scales. That’s why I haven’t mentioned fingers here and they’re not on the PDF. Using these musically, you’ll be using different fingers all the time depending on what you’re playing.
@@KamoheloMosuoane-cc2nz I mainly play the Harp and guitar. Worked with the Bluesman R.L. Burnside for years, but wish I had all these Scales down then. Been playing piano some for years enough to play at gigs, so what you're teaching is a great help. And, you make it fun!
You are nothing short of brilliant. Love your videos. I learn a lot from each one. BTW, I'm 78 years old. Took piano lessons when I was 9. Going for the gold.
EDIT: meant to say pentagon, not pentagram but you get the idea 😂 Also Check out part 2 on relative majors and minors next ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F6MOTS52M8I.html
Your method of finding the pentatonic scale using the major and minor triads is nothing short of “genius”. So much easier than figuring out the scale notes and then taking away notes. Thank you so very much.
I think it's simpler to add the notes on to find them visually quickly, but theory wise, taking away from the full scale is a useful learning tool too.
I'm a saxophonist who is going to improvise for a gig for the first time in about 2 weeks and this video really helped understand the theory behind pentatonic scales
Truly helpful. Returning to piano 30 years later, I find your videos instructive, easy to follow, and reopens my mind to carefully relearning and triggering long dormant techniques, scales, chords, reading charts, and inversions used in jazz that provide fuller, richer tones than simple chord usage. Thank you for such well thought-out videos and explanations. Looking forward to watching all of your videos. Cordially, Vicki Podgur-Hoof.
This is a brilliant method of teaching, I have been following you for awhile now and my learning curve is starting to go off the charts, for years I took lessons from a classical guitar teacher who taught me in a manner I found hard to comprehend, the best thing I ever done was move to the keyboard. Thanks and keep up the good work
I learnt a blues scale (Eb apparently) decades ago and used it on any keys I happened upon for all that time. You have explained it and expanded upon that in just a few minutes. Thanks 🙏
Absolutely great video. When you laid out the C major it was a lightbulb moment. That is nothing short of genius. After that counting ( and re-counting ) is history and one just sees the pentatonic scale immediately in every key.
It's really good instruction. One trick I discovered on my own to have an easy blues scale, is if you are in a major key, to solo, go up one whole step and play that minor key. If you are in C, then play d minor. The net difference between the two is the flat 7th. Then you can add in whatever blue notes you want, like the tritone, the flat 6th, or flat 2nd. Whatever. Every chromatic note works as long as you resolve it to a note in the key (which in C is d minor).
I love your method. I think it is truly based on the KISS principle. ( Keep it Simple Stupid ) . I now have to just spend some time and do the work because I learn easier thru patterns and adding the notes really shows up the patterns. Thanx a million.
Good Morning Sir,Your Lesson is very nice. In Addition three another Pentatonic Scales are there .(1)Minor Pentatonic #5.(2)Scottish Pentatonic Scale (3) Suspended Pentatonic and also above Blues.Thank you Sir.
I came here looking for a bunch of cheeky pentatonic patterns and licks to play! But maybe i should learn a few pentatonic scales first, you think? Incredibly done, Thx!
I just enjoy working with the 3 positions of each chords. Then I will sing and play along utilizing various positions that have least movement of fingers
I'm only just starting piano scales/chords... But saw Am pentatonic scale, elsewhere, n was intrigued to find out how it was played. Thanks for your explanation(some of which went 'over my head' atm) but I've saved ur vid.
Mate that's really helpful, it's exactly what I was looking for. In guitar, that is my first instrument, there are also shapes for scales and chords, but they are the same for all the keys. I knew there should be a visual way to understand the scales in piano as well and i just find it thanks mate.
Fantastic explanation! I didn't know these things. If only classroom teachers taught this to the music kids. They teach classical in this detailed format so why not jazz and blues?!
Klasse. Auch wenn ich Deutscher bin und ich nur die Hälfte verstanden habe ,finde ich das Video ist sehr gut. Toll mit diesen Klebe Punkten. So denn... ✌️👍
That’s great. The scales are still the same on guitar yes, the same intervals/notes but the layout is very different so I expect there is a better ways of actually learning the shapes specifically on guitar.
You explain really clearly! And the use of different colors are really useful, thanks! The way you play the first blues scale with the blue note, where you “drag” the note with the following one, can you drag any other note, or just that “blue” note?
Any tips or advice for pentatonic scale fingering? I’m struggle with hands together to double up for runs, but not sure how often that will be used in a musical context
This video is super! Thanks a lot. I could understand the pentatonic scales and blues scales the differences and the use of it. I made a piece of music out of this scale and made a video on the process of making it. As I got help from your video, I included a little part of your video. I wonder if you mind. If you find it not proper, please let me know and I will modify the video. Thanks again! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IhHNhK9riGQ.html
This is not correct. The blues scale is neither major nor minor. The 'C' blues scale is in fact C Eb F Gb G Bb C. Not what you are showing here. What we have here is an 'A' blues scale with a note missing (A). It should be A C D Eb E G A.
It is correct, some people often just refer to ‘the’ blues scale (which I’m pretty sure I explained) but myself and others just sometimes refer to it as the ‘minor blues scale’ instead to help differentiate from a different scale commonly used, the ‘major blues scale’. Do you think you’re correcting the notes for me because that’s what I said too? C minor blues (often just called C blues) is those notes, yes. C major blues is like the relative major of A minor blues and contains the same notes but starting from C - C D Eb E G A. Minor blues (or ‘the’ blues) = 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 major blues = 1 2 b3 3 5 6.
Well lots of people call them that because they're basically major and minor pentatonic scales with an additional 'blue' note. It makes perfect sense when you consider how the scales are used but call them whatever you like. 👍
@@PianoFromScratch This is so wrong. You need to re-think your music theory. The 'blue' note appears only in the blues scale. it is essentially the flattened fifth added to the minor pentatonic scale. This is what gives the blues scale its unique character.
May I ask why you’re clicking on beginner piano videos if you think you already know the answers? Are you perhaps just looking for things to criticise? (I’m assuming you’re not new to music) The point of this video was really to help people find the patterns on the piano in different keys. Whether or not you agree about the name ‘major blues’ scale, the major pentatonic with the added flat 3 is used all the time. Out of curiosity, do you have another name for it? If you don’t think it needs a name, cool, but at the end of the day it’s basically a major pentatonic plus 1 note and it’s used to play bluesy phrases so that’s why people call it that and why the name makes sense. It’s useful to give a name to commonly used things and it’s not just me mate, I didn’t make it up. I really don’t understand why you think that because one blues scale exists already, there can’t be another type or that we’re not allowed to call it that. Have you commented on other people’s videos on youtube who have called it that, like Rick Beato? The guys at open studio? Paul davids? If you’re in C major, for example, you might use the C blues scale but the A blues scale also sounds good. It’s just the blues scale from the relative minor but because the relative major would be the starting point, people call it the major blues instead. Now when I’m talking about both types in the same video, I’m going to call the blues scale the ‘minor blues scale’ instead to differentiate the two. What was the flat 5 blue note is now the flat 3 and adds a certain kind of tension to help make things sound ‘bluesy’. Depends how you define ‘blue note’, if you want to just call the flat 5 the blue note, cool, but I find it useful to link them and think of this a kind of blue note too in this context. Again, I’m not the only one, people categorise other notes that may be used in that way as blue notes too if they find it useful to do so. As long as I know how to find the note to get a sound I want, that’s all that matters really anyway. There’s also a blue note club and have some sticky blue notes on my desk. The way I see it, learning to actually use these things musically is far more important than debating semantics anyway. People call it one thing and you don’t agree, that’s fine, no one listening to music cares what we call it anyway. 👍
