Music Theory Monday | 13: More Blues
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In this MTM I discuss theory that is not exclusive to the blues, but tonally related. I introduce a few ideas about bending - how you always want to think about bending TO a note - and a few thoughts about how “The Blues Scale” is or isn’t directly related to the Blues depending on how you use it or look at it. I also get into this bluesy idea of playing a minor pentatonic scale over the IV chord in a major key - stealing a blues concept and plopping it into a non-bluesy song. Sometimes it sounds awesome and sometimes it sounds a little too risky!
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Hey Leon - it's more like writing a melody, but on the fly. I have some old livestreams about melody-writing, but I think I should probably make some more videos about writing melodies. I talk about writing phrases (the basic building blocks of melodies) that follow the chords like you've discussed in Music Theory Monday 17, 18 and 19 https://www.scottpauljohnson.com/music-theory-monday
Scott Paul Johnson
2022-07-20 21:45:26 +0000 UTCthis is probably slightly off topic but to my understanding, is soloing like taking the notes from the involved chords and butchering and rearranging the notes (given it will sound good) and adding some chromatics every now and then?
Leon Neri
2022-07-19 20:45:14 +0000 UTCSo interesting to learn the "guts " of blues. Really liked the explanation of the 357 walk down.
Trevor Wilkinson
2021-10-09 16:14:28 +0000 UTCI have a question. Why am I watching this just now Scott? If you get hundreds views for this video in the next days, don't worry. Is me.
DeDé
2021-03-02 22:17:51 +0000 UTCThats cool!
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-02-21 02:34:25 +0000 UTCInteresting you bring up shifting from major pentatonic on the I chord to minor pentatonic on the IV chord. That was something BB king did a lot. The BB "box" is like a mini/extracted version of that shift from major to minor.
Ahmad Alamad
2021-02-20 16:31:22 +0000 UTCNice one! Keep 'em blues stuff coming!
Maxim K
2020-09-27 17:28:54 +0000 UTCThanks for the reply, just looking for a good practice amp for a small room. I looked up the Peavey but nothing looked like yours. The one you have looks like a vintage head
Keith Davis
2020-09-23 21:35:21 +0000 UTCLooks like a Peavey Special 130
guille
2020-09-22 20:06:43 +0000 UTCLove this stuuffff
Joe Fodor
2020-09-22 12:13:19 +0000 UTCQuick question: why does the concept of switching to the minor pentatonic scale work specifically over the IV chord?
Odissei
2020-09-22 05:03:03 +0000 UTCJust curious about the amp your playing through
Keith Davis
2020-09-22 02:07:55 +0000 UTC
