B-flat blues scale from the B-flat major scale No.
The 7th note is the octave of the tonic note, where the pattern begins to repeat itself. So for this major scale, the 5th note of the major scale is flattened from F to E to make the blue note.īelow are those notes numbered 1 to 6 on the piano keyboard.
The flattened 5th is the blue note that gives the blues scale its distinctive sound in this key. To flatten a note, just replace it with the piano key lower in pitch ie. The 2nd and 6th notes of the major scale are not used. The blues scale is made from the 1st, flattened 3rd, 4th, flattened 5th, 5th and flattened 7th notes from the major scale above. You should practice the arpeggios like I’ve written them out, but you would get a lot from also improvising over the progression just using the arpeggios.This step shows the 6 blues scale notes constructed using the major scale of the same key. To make it easier to connect the different arpeggios I have written them out in a similar range which means that I don’t always start on the root of each chord. In example 3 I have written out the arpeggios in this position. Therefore it is very important to be able to play the chords of the progression as arpeggios. When playing over changing harmony the best way to really follow the chords is of course to use the notes of the chords in your solo. You can use this approach to determine what scale you should use for any auxiliary dominant. In this context the (actually in most contexts) that means using the C harmonic minor scale. If I need to fit an E dim in there then an easy way to do that is to replace the D with a Db and the Eb with an E:īb C Db E F G Ab Bb which you can write out from F to recognize that it as an F harmonic minor scale.įor the G7(b9) you need to look at it as a dominant resolving to Cm, which tells us that we should use a Cm scale for it. You can see how I arrive by this by looking at it from the Bb7 scale: The E dim scale is in fact an F harmonic minor from E to E. The Bb7,Eb7,Cm7 and F7 are easily understood in terms of where they sit in the key, since it is all mixolydian or dorian.
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