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Ceasy Blues Part 2, The magic Blues Scale.
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So, you've got you're three
voicings in the left hand,
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C7 [SOUND], F7 [SOUND], G7 [SOUND].
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So what do you play on the right hand?
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And the reason a blues scale is so useful
is that it will magically sound great
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over any chord change in a given key,
if you want to sound bluesy, that is.
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So a blues song's overall key is in C, and
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a C blues scale will sound fine
with all the chord changes.
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So you're playing in the key of C.
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So let's look at a C blues scale that
will go with your Ceasy blues chords.
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Now don't worry about working
out whether it's a third or
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a flat and third or
a seventh or anything else.
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Just memorize this scale for now.
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Look at the shapes and
patterns that it makes.
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That's all you need to do for now.
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So look at the very geometrical
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shape that the scale makes.
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[SOUND] Okay, so.
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[SOUND] Two Cs.
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Moving inward on to black keys,
not this one.
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[SOUND] All right.
In the middle, two whites.
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[SOUND] So right in the middle of
the two Cs, the two white notes.
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All right.
And
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then right in the middle of the two
white notes is a black key.
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Okay.
[SOUND] If you move that all up one octave
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as well, you can do exactly the same.
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[SOUND] Now you can
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see the fingering I used.
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That's the easiest fingering you
can start with for this scale.
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Your thumb and your third finger.
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Thumb is always on the white.
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Third finger is always on the black.
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You never have to think
about what you are doing.
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Thumb, third, thumb, third.
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[SOUND] So
just keep practicing up and down.
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[SOUND] So you can see that automatically
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this scale almost sounds like
a riff rather than a scale.
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[SOUND] And it'll just work
magically with your three chords.
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Just as it is.
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