The Blues Scale
By adding one note to the minor pentatonic scale, the Blues scale can be created. The extra note is the flattened fifth degree ( b5) which is Eb in the A Blues scale which is shown in the next example.
This example shows a Blues scale line played by the right hand over the left hand accompaniment pattern you learned in the previous lesson.
Like the minor pentatonic, the Blues scale is useful for creating riffs played by both hands. Here is the A Blues scale played by both hands.
Here are some two handed riffs making use of the Blues scale.
It is also common to combine notes from the pentatonic or Blues scales with chords as shown in the next two examples.
Class Sessions
1- Basic Chords, Rhythms and Sounds
2- Alternating Octaves
3- Blues Scales in E
4- The Blues Scale
5- The Minor Pentatonic Scale
6- Minor Keys
7- Using Ties
8- How to Transpose
9- Chord Construction
10- Scale Tone Chords
11- More New Chords
12- Turnaround Progressions
13- Combining Major and Minor Chords
14- Minor Chords
15- New Chords and Keys, Transposing, Pentatonic and Blues Scale Riffs
16- Using Keyboard Voices
17- INTRODUCTION
18- The Major Chord
19- Creating a Part
20- The 12 Bar Blues
21- Chord Inversions
22- Eighth Note Rhythms
23- A Major Scale
24- The C Major Chord
25- New Chords in the Key of G
26- Slash Chords
27- Intervals
28- Riffs
29- D Minor Chord Inversions
30- C Major Chord Inversions
31- The Chromatic Scale
32- A Minor Chord Inversions
33- E Minor Chord Inversions
34- D Major Chord Inversions
35- Chord Diagrams
36- G Major Chord Inversions
37- B Diminished Chord Inversions
38- Interval Names
39- B Minor Chord Inversions
40- The G Major Chord
41- F Major Chord Inversions
42- F<span class="symbolA">#</span> Diminished Chord Inversions
43- The F Major Chord