I always tell my students, “If you can master the blues scale and wail with it………. I also have tons of lessons in my Neffmusic store on the blues scales and the 12 bar blues both for alto and tenor saxophone. Mastering the Blues Scale Volume 2-Dominant Chords There are tons of great sound lines and licks in these two books! There is slight variations in how you use this scale depending on the harmony behind it.ĬLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD –> 12-blues-scalesįor more information and licks using the blues scales check out my two books on Mastering the Blues Scales. 12 Major & 36 Minor Scales for All Instruments Jim Evans Treble Clef Major Scales. A blues scale- practice this over an A minor and a C Major chord. It’s good to practice each blues scale to it’s corresponding minor chord but also to it’s relative major chord. With major scales under your belt, learning chords will become a cinch. Piano Chords Using major scales to learn chords. For example, if I’m using the A blues scale and play an Eb many times you will hear me resolve it to E or to D which in most cases are more pleasing notes to the ear. Piano Sheet Collection FREE EASY SHEET MUSIC Dont laugh at my piano. This is a great note because there’s tension to it but tension sounds best when you hear it resolve. Many student who are new to improvising will land on the #4 and just sit on it without resolving it. When I teach my students to use the blues scale I teach them to try to move off the #4 note quickly when playing. It’s just a sheet with all the 12 Blues Scales on it. Next, let's talk about how this looks on your piano keyboard.Here’s a free sheet I give to all my students after they learn their major scales. This isn't true with our Minor scales, which is probably why we learn the Major scales first. Major scales are the easiest to learn because of this great fact. All Major scales follow this same finger pattern! You can think of this like a math formula almost. Major scales have 1/2 steps between the 3rd and 4th notes and between the 7th and 8th notes. All scales are built upon specific patterns of whole and 1/2 steps. Are you familiar with the terms whole steps and half steps? We always define our note successions in terms of whether the next note is a whole or 1/2 step away.If you look at the piano keyboard, you'll notice that some of the white keys have no black keys in between them, while others are right next to a black key.Before we go on, let's review an important part of learning our notes that we need to know before playing our scales.The crossover is indicated with '-' symbol. This is true for all of your Major scales. Every scale is explaned with its fingering, with the standar finghers numbering for right and left hand. Notice that the first and last notes are the same. For example, the C major scale will start on Middle C, and then continue up note by note until the next C, which is an octave higher.
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