How To REALLY Improvise Using The Blues Scale
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This is a lesson for beginners explaining how to improvise using the blues scale. It can be used over anything including the 12 bar blues, funk and jazz (providing the key doesn't change).
Backing track used in the lesson: • Smooth Jazz Backing Tr...
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“How can someone hate the blues. everyone is literally just vibing”
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.
@@zennabella1676 you may want to turn off caps lock
@@ducky-2489 Nice profile picture
@@whatisoatmeal9174 OMG😂😂😂
Im so glad i found this comment when trying to do meh school music
My son see this, and told me "dad, this guy teach me better than you"
Damn you
Hahaha sorry! 😂
Maybe it's because he knows how to use grammar.
@@Yourmom-xu9ys Grammar Nazi alert
@@Yourmom-xu9ys OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
@@Yourmom-xu9ys no one cares
Blues scale almost feels like cheating . . . I press random notes on the blues scale, and my dad compliments me on my jazz skills
lmao
that’s funny bruh!! 😂😂
😂😂😂
Great and Beautiful!!!!!
Lmao 🤣
I just fell in love with blues scales at 3am
You and me both
Sounds as a line of a nice song haha
Now you need to play 3 o clock blues
DON'T PLAY THE BLUE SCALES AT 3AM (NOT CLICKBAIT) (GONE WRONG) (COPS CALLED)
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.
“There’s no wrong notes, you can play literally anything in the scale and it still sounds good”
Are you challenging me?
just play tritones (C and F# for the c blues scale)
yes he is
@@samglover7803 IT STILL SOUNDS GOOD WHY
Matt, why did you choose a can of Bush's?
still sounds sexy doesnt it?
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.
You should be learning by ear anyways.
Not in Gb Are you stupid?
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.
100x yes
Glynnis O Ok, one in a million
The fact that you really can't go wrong with any order of the blues scale opens up so much room for interesting original music for me. Thanks!
When You get bored of smashing C, F, G chords.
You can smash C,F,G and Am.
Lol yes
Hey man! Surprise seeing you here! Thanks for the SFM tutorial by the way!
@@danielschwartz1228 smash an Ebmajor in there 😉
@@whocares8735 🤘
Dude, i want to thank you. You litteraly made me start playing the piano again after a 3 years break. Thanks again. :)
That's so good to hear man! Keep it up :)
Glad to have you back.
why tf did you stop playing ?? it's like breathing to 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.
THATS GREAT. ITS NEVER TOO LATE TO GET BACK INTO IT. I DIDNT GET BACK INTO PLAYING THE PIANO AGAIN UNTIL MY LATE 50S, NOW IM IN MY LATE 60S.
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
Instructions unclear. Four pianos now glued to the ceiling.
instructions unclear. Piano stuck in butt.
I got my pen stuck in my Xbox disk tray?
Hahahaha
Damn you too?
@@xNukedApplez F
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.
its easy thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭
the word "beginner" is rather subjective
You have to make a pact with the devil my friend
True
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!
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.
Finally found one of these CZcams tutorials useful, improvised something Jazzy & Bluesy for the first time ever. Thank you soooo much !
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. 😊😊
5:13 when he said 🎶🎹🎹🎹🎹🎶 i felt that
@ᴀɴᴛᴇᴀsᴏᴄɪᴀʟ x Why
@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
@ᴀɴᴛᴇᴀsᴏᴄɪᴀʟ x no worries
@@JoJo99xtv i cant tell if your just making a joke, which I think you are, or if you just forgot to switch accounts lol
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.
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.
That's so good to hear! I'm happy to be able to provide you the inspiration to keep working at it :)
I love the shape of the blues scales. Hexatonic like a hexagon it is natures way of making something right
I have watched this 4 times I'm still learning my scales and intervals so this Inspired me.
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 absolutely adore the blue’s scale. I learned the C scale in my music class. Still to learn more. This video will definitely help me. Thank you.
OMG YES, after 6 yrs of piano only doing classical music i’ve always wanted to know how to improvise in blues you helped me so muuch !
Holy crap this is the best tutorial video I've seen yet I actually learned something and understood
That's great to hear!
How is a crap holy?
It's cool that you can just play any note in the scale. Like you said, you can't mess it up. The blues scale is so versatile!
6 years on and it's still gold... thank you for sharing!
I played at 0.5x.
I really enjoyed it! There is a tricky Eb that sounds good! Thanks for It!
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!
This is the single most useful video I've found. I find it so easy to learn from your low-key unassuming teaching style! Thank you, thank you.
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??
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.
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🙂
That explanation of the intervals REALLY affected my piano playing, big thanks!
1:28 my mind is corrupted ඞ
Amogus
Amogus
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.
Blues are gift to ears..Thanks for the nice tutorial.
this is soooo easy to remember, thank you so much!
Dude you're so effortless ! please make more vids i just subbed
Keep it up man! Love the way you're teaching
Thanks :) Appreciate the positive feedback!
@kennywi .......Why are you so rude. Respect your teacher.
kennywi whats your problem?
@UzumakiFather10723 haha.
Love your style, pace and educational descriptions. Love your work !.,
Thanks for the video! Really helpful in understanding how the scale can be used and I love the 32 11 32 trick as well.
Gosh you slayed the keyboard , someone call the cops
Hi I really like your voice and accent and find it very soothing
Beautiful! Thank you 😊
Thanks! I'm playing blues in less than 5 minutes, simple and easy to follow. Subscribed
1:27 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Megalovania?
when I listened to the scale I thought wow this really is a blues scale!
I love how you didn't show off with your example and actually played something realistic for a noob to play. It's also helpful and nice to have the highlighting keyboard thing, makes it a lot easier to see which notes you're playing so I don't need to try so hard to watch
Thanks Liam! Yeah, the light up keyboard makes it so much easier to follow along!
I searched only 'blues backing track' when I was trying to jam with blues scales.. now I have more option. thanks!
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!
Damn that's a tasteful solo. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks bro!
Great lesson!! Easy to learn and impro along!
Thanks a lot about your lessons, I have learned so much 😊. You are such a great teacher!
I need to try that.
Wow..20 thousand likes ... for a reason.. great lesson.
I'm new with keys and your tutorials really help me. Thanks.
Sweet backing track, gonna have fun with that as I enjoy my first month of p.pig.
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 :-)
That's great to hear! Glad I help out with your students 😀
Are you new to CZcams putting up piano tutorials? Never seen your tutorials before. I just subscribed.
Yes we are new to CZcams and we are looking forward to building up a big community :) We are also building up a membership website which will be launched over the next couple of months. Thanks for joining the journey so early on! Stay tuned for new weekly videos :)
Finally someone who makes sense!!! Blues 🔵💙🔵 Scales , where have you been all our lives?!?!!!
Aqesome tutorial guy! I train it for 20 mins, and for some reason i can now play piano way better. Big thanks
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
What is the key and chord progression of the backing track played at 4:35.
I found learning to combine the blues scale with the major blues scale can sound great too.
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.
Sounds like MC Eiht, Straight up Menace!
OMG I FEEL LIKE A PRO
Very interesting, great lesson.
Thank you
This is amazing, I’ve learnt something new! I can see myself using this technique!
3:14
No context time stamps, love it
@@ducky-2489 pi ^
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 :-)
I love this!! Thank you for this video
Thank you for the blues scale formula! I'm a super beginner and all the different blues scales were confusing me! THANK YOU!! GOD BLESS!!!
This guy sounds like Korg from the Avengers
The hammer pulled you off?
No he doesn't
Lmao
😂😂😂😂😂
He does
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 !!!!
It's called Midiculous 😀
So super excellent sir. Thanks for explaining.
Lovely great video.... I must practice this on my violin.
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)
Good question.
RUSHING TO MY PIANO
Lmao
Same xd
Literally had the exact same reaction hahaha
You mean the piano app on your china phone
@@Omi142 lmao
Wow simply amazing great stuff
I really enjoyed the knowledge in this one.
Thank You very helpfull
Thanks! Glad you found it useful :)
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....
I was wondering the same thing
Lovely playing.
Namaste, Brava! That was fabulous and i always love your playing. Thanks for share this. Have a good day from Germany, Hannes 👍🏻👍🏻🤣🌹
Ah, yes. amongus music
that backing track sounds a lot like supreme jubilees - it'll all be over
That was amazing!! So more of this Videos. Thats what we need!:)
Delighted that you use the intervals to describe. It took me years to work out that all Western Music is built on intervals of the Chromatic Scale. Chords are based on intervals and do not rely on scales rather the opposite is the case. That's how dominants work. This is of course the Minor Blues Scale and is based on the Pentatonic. Yes there is a Major blues Root 2 1 1 3 2 3. I look forward to your other videos as I have just started on Swing and Blues
On exactly 4:51 heaven descended to earth for a short period of time
Muito bom obrigado, embora eu não compreenda o indioma mas as explicações estão claras e a vontade de tocar fala mais alto hehehe
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.
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 ;- )
That was a cool little tutorial. Thanks.
How about paint your piano with a lot of blues
How about if the backing was G major? Could I use G major blues scale instead of E minor blues scale? Thanks
If the backing track is in G major you would want to be using the E minor blues scale.
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 :)
it does indeed, tks
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.
Super cool lesson.
Fantastic video!