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Mastering the Blues Scale Volume 2: Dominant Chords
“Just play the blues scale!” All across the country, you hear this advice given in every band room. Students sit with blank looks on their faces as band directors tell them to use this or that blues scale on their solo. The advice usually doesn’t go much further Read More…
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In this lesson I introduce you to the dominant seventh chord. If you have worked on your major scales, major triads and minor triads then this is a great next lesson for you. If you’ve ever listened to a blues, then you have heard the sound of a dominant seventh chord. It is a chord Read More…
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This is a video lesson on an exciting new concept that I have recently discovered. In this lesson, I introduce you to what I call the Altered Dominant Bebop Scale. I have taken the Altered scale and turned it into an altered bebop scale. It is similar in concept to the dominant bebop scale except Read More…
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Using the Blues Scale-Part 1. I always tell my students that all they need to know to get a gig is their blues scales. They always think I’m joking and that there is no way it can be that easy but the truth is that 90-95% of today’s songs are in one key. The band Read More…
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Using the Blues Scale-Part 2. I always tell my students that all they need to know to get a gig is their blues scales. They always think I’m joking and that there is no way it can be that easy but the truth is that 90-95% of today’s songs are in one key. The band Read More…
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In this lesson I introduce you to triad pair patterns that use 4 notes per triad. Triad pair lines are based off of the concept of mixing two triads together to form your lines and ideas. In past lessons we tackled 2×2 patterns and 3×3 triad patterns. The more of these patterns you master Read More…
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Mastering The Dominant Bebop Scale
The Dominant Bebop Scale is a scale that can be used over a dominant chord. It has both the major 7th and the flat 7th in the scale so in the key of G the scale would be GABCDEFF#G. The reason that the dominant bebop scale sounds so great is that Read More…
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