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BASIC BLUES – SOUND GREAT WITH ONLY ONE PENTATONIC SCALE
Do you want to improvise and sound great? Play the blues like this
When starting to improvise you need something very understandable.
You need something that gives you the basic feel of improvising and which is useful in your further development of your playing.
You need to develop your feel for rhythm and timing.
You also need to develop your motor skills to correspond with your hearing.
In this video I will get you going on all these great skills with a super simple blues and one pentatonic scale.
In this tutorial
Why starting with the blues?
The three dominants
One pentatonic scale
Pentatonic scale exercises
The pentatonic scale groups
One bar improvisation
Solo Method “Beginning the blues with one pentatonic scale”
Show, play and analyse a solo on a blues using one pentatonic scale
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00:00 Do you want to improvise and sound great? Play the blues like this
00:36 Søren is playing “Blues in G”
00:53 In this tutorial
01:34 Why start with the blues?
02:17 The three dominants
04:58 One pentatonic scale
05:39 Pentatonic scale exercises
06:51 The pentatonic scale groups
11:00 One bar improvisation
13:22 Solo Method “Beginning the blues with one pentatonic scale”
13:59 Show, play and analyse a solo on a blues using one pentatonic scale
16:17 BLUES BLUES BLUES
16:30 Do you like my tutorials – join and support me on Patreon
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Solo method in the 6 most common blues keys
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Jazz Blues – this is the way to play jazz and get the blues sound
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My setup:
saxophone: Selmer MKVI 82xxx
mouthpiece is an old Otto Link Babbit – refaced from opening 6 to opening 8/8,5
Reeds are either rico jazz select 4 medium or Robertos Wind NY own brand 4 medium
Strap: BG Brace Yoke – S50M
