Now let's see how this all fits together by playing a typical blues chord sequence in the key of C, with the C Blues scale over the top. It is the tritone interval between the degrees 3 and b7 that create the characteristic sound of the dominant seventh chord. Tritones are very important intervals for adding tension to music. It also contains F#, a tritone away from the key note of C. Start with the basic minor pentatonic scale. For example, if the progression was E, A, B (1 4 5), E would be the root of our scale. Make sure the root ( 1 ) of these scales is the same note as the 1 chord's root. These scales work well over both major and minor key blues progressions.
The Blues scale fits well with all of these chords because it contains the defining root note and flat seventh note of each one of them. Basic blues guitar scales - embellishing minor pentatonic. There are several standard chord progressions in blues music, and they all use dominant seventh chords based on the 1st, 4th and 5th notes of the Major scale.įor example, a song in the C Blues scale would mainly use the chords C7, F7 and G7, and the notes of these are shown below. The notes G and B ♭ are also sometimes played slightly off their expected pitch.įor this reason the voice and the guitar, which can both bend the pitch of their notes, are heavily used in blues music. In the C Blues scale, for example, the note E ♭ is often played slightly sharp, somewhere between E ♭ and E. It is also unusual in that some of its notes are considered blue notes, meaning that they are not played exactly at the pitch you would expect. The Blues scale has only six notes - unlike all the other scales we have seen so far with seven. In particular, the Blues scale is a very common choice for melodies and improvisations in blues music. When we look at relating chords and scales a little later, you will see how unusual this is. It is usually considered the forerunner of both jazz and rock, and it breaks many of the conventions of classical music theory.īlues music has a solid but plaintive sound which results from the use of a minor-based scale over the top of major-based chords (usually dominant sevenths). The intervals as shown above are used when the scale (or a melody made from it) is ascending. In classical music theory, the Melodic Minor has a very unusual property, not found in any other scale type. The only difference is whether the third note makes a minor or major interval.
#MELODIC MINOR SCALES BLUES HOW TO#
The Lesson steps then describe how to identify the A melodic minor scale note interval positions, choose the note names and scale degree names. The Melodic Minor scale is also similar to the Major scale (although still with a distinctly different pattern of intervals). Greetings for Amsterdam and keep up to good work.Blues is a very important area of modern music. The Solution below shows the A melodic minor scale notes, intervals and scale degrees on the piano, treble clef and bass clef. Isn’t it in the key of A because A is the 1 chord, D is the 4th chord and E is the 5 chord? When I hear a song I connect it to the 1,4 and 5 system to determine in which key it is. Second question: In the video you say we are in the key of E, while the chords are E, D and A.
Can I only use mayor pentatonic when the blues progression is mayor? Could you give me more information about the minor and mayor scales in a relation to the blues progression. Now its time to use the mayor and minor pentatonic scale, but when I use a mayor pentatonic over a minor blues progression it does not sound right (when I use minor pentatonic over mayor blues, it sounds good).
I use this scale for soloing over minor and mayor blues progressions. But I have two questions:įirst question: I use the minor pentatonic scale for some time now. After signing up to your lessons and learning some theory it blew me away what the possibilities are. I have been playing for some time now and all this time I though music theory is to boring and I just wanted to play. First of all I want to thank you for the lessons.
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