How NOT to use the Blues Scale - #3

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🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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To play the blues, you gotta know what NOT to play. And then, maybe, just maybe you'll then be able to have the blues. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	I'm Peter Martin, and I'm Adam Anas.
0:15.8	Welcome to the You'll Hear It podcast.
0:31.7	Thank you. You'll hear it podcast. Today we're going to talk about how not to use the blue scale.
0:36.2	Now the blue scale is one of the first scales that we learn when we
0:40.1	start to get into jazz, I think. Was it the first scale for you, Adam? It absolutely was. I think
0:44.6	it's the first scale that people identify with a jazzy, quote-unquote sound. That's right. So it's
0:49.8	that's your kind of typical traditional blues scale, although...
0:57.0	Don't hit them up with the secret so soon, man.
1:02.0	We'll get to that in another one.
1:03.0	But anyway, there's other kinds of blues scales.
1:05.0	But the concept of this in terms of how not to use the blues scale is very simple. If you're playing a blues,
1:12.6	and this is a C blues, we're going to start, of course, on the C blue scale.
1:21.6	And then at a certain point, we're going to go to the four chord, right?
1:25.6	Now, what do a lot of people do at them they then
1:29.7	will play the blue scale from the four chord in this case the f blue scale oh stop it's
1:36.0	it's hurt so we don't need to do that even when we go to the four chord we're going to stay
1:43.8	at that C blue scale.
1:49.0	And then when we go back to the 1, still there.
1:56.0	Okay, so this is all C blue scale. Then we go to the 5.
2:00.0	What do you think, Adam?
2:00.9	Should we leave now?
2:02.4	No, sir.
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