In this lesson we look at the Blues Scale (or Minor Blues Scale). This is a simple variation on the Minor Pentatonic from the previous lesson and is VERY common in all styles of pop, jazz and blues music.
C Blues Scale
Sunshine Of Your Love (D Blues Scale)
C Blues Riff
Hi Mark,
thanks for your great lessons. Using your lessons helped me to improve a lot.
And now I’ve got a question about this Blues Scale.
In the past I found some kind of extension to this scale and I wonder why this didn’t show up in your lessons.
C – Blues Scale:
G —-3 —- 5
D —-3 —- 4 —- 5
A —-3 —- 6
G – Blues Scale?
G —- 3 —- 5 —- 6
D —- 3 —- 5
A —- 3 —- 4 —- 5
E —- 3 —- 6
It feels right while playing it, but never showed up somewhere else. Any ideas where this comes from and can it used in a blues song? Or isn’t it a blues scale anymore?
Best regards
Armin
Very useful 👍🇺🇸
Awesome lesson. It confused me a bit that the sheet music for the riff didn’t match what we actually played but it was an easy adjustment.
great lesson like that blues note