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Blues Practice 1, Basic Blues Workout.
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Now that you're practicing lots of
different patterns in different keys,
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it's a good idea to practice your blues
chords and scales in those keys as well.
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And that way you'll be able to throw
in some blues if you feel the urge.
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Begin by improvising your scales over your
three standard blues chords in that key.
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So you can either stick to using
the relevant blues scale for
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that key over all the three chords, or
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you can also use the relevant blues scale
or flattened seventh scale for each chord.
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This helps develop the ability
to use particular scales for
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particular chords rather than just
the one blues scale throughout.
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So, to find the blues scale for
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a chord, first of all find the notes
of the minor seventh chord.
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So, if you want a blues scale for
C, find the minor 7.
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[MUSIC]
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There's minor, [SOUND] C minor.
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[SOUND] There's the seventh.
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Add in the fourth and the fifth,
the flattened fifth [SOUND] of the scale.
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[MUSIC]
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So, there's the first, [SOUND]
flattened third of the minor, fourth,
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the flattened fifth, the fifth,
seventh, and the root again.
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[MUSIC]
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So, basically,
if you find [SOUND] the minor 7.
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[MUSIC]
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And then before the fifth add
in the two tones beside it.
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So let's look at blues scale for D.
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So you find the minor seventh which is D,
F, A, C.
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[SOUND] And then near the fifth
you do the two notes to the left.
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[MUSIC]
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So you can do that for any chord.
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And to find the seventh scale for a chord,
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it can either be called flattened
seventh scale or dominant seventh scale.
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It's the same as the major scale but
the seventh is flat.
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So in C, if you were looking for C seventh
scale, there's C major seven scale.
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So that's the major seventh,
so flatten that.
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And that's what you play over C7.
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So there's C7.
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So for each key, you're going to have
three voicings for the blues chords.
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So in C you have C, root and seventh.
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F middle seventh,
we're leaving at the root.
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G7 backwards, no fifth.
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Back to C.
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And you can either use your
C blues up throughout.
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[MUSIC]
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Or you can use C blues over the C7.
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And then F blues scale over the F7.
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And then a G blues scale over the G7.
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Or you could use C7
scale over the C7 chord.
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F7 scale over the F7 chord.
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G7 scale over the G7 chord.
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And as you do that,
just practice and experiment.
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And then when you've finished,
tick the box for each key.