The Major Blues Scale is the lesser-known cousin of the minor blues scale. Also known as the Jazz Blues Scale, it has a more majorish, jazzier quality than the minor blues…
Category Archive: Blues School
As the name suggests, the Minor Pentatonic Scale has five notes and a minor quality–widely used in Blues tonalities in blues (of course), folk, pop, and rock….
The Minor Blues Scale is the blues scale that most people are familiar with, so much so that it often just called the Blues Scale…
In this lesson we’re going to use a simple boogie woogie pattern to illustrate the true nature of musical time and rhythm…
It’s common practice to simplify the music notation for shuffle/swing music in order to make the score easier to read…
Before we even begin to delve into comping, scales, and blues harmony, it is absolutely essential to have a deep understanding of Blues Rhythm…
Welcome to the first and most important lesson in Minor Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony…
This harmonically sophisticated 12-bar Blues variation combines many of the ideas we have already studied–creating lots of harmonic interest and sense of forward motion…
This commonly used 12-bar Blues variation substitutes a full turnaround based on secondary dominants V7/II-V7/V-V7 in the last two bars…
This commonly used 12-bar Blues variation inserts a secondary dominant A7 (V7/ii) in bar 8 to feed the Dm7 (ii7) in bar 9…