Okay, continuing on with adding some new spice to our blues scale.
We're gonna talk about the major too and
we're gonna talk about why it should work, okay?
Now again, we're dealing with a tonic of A.
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Now we're in the key of A, and so, if we have a chord
progression that has our basic chords of one, four, five,
they're all major, then technically, we should be able to play.
We should be able to play the major scale over the top of it because
the chords match the scale notes and the scale notes match the chords.
But in our one chord, adding the two,
which is one, two, so that note is a B, so A, A sharp, B,
so anytime we have a B we could play that note
any place on any of these chords.
However, notice that adding that
note makes it a nine chord, okay?
If we play the, but it's not really,
it doesn't naturally appear in that first chord, okay?
It also doesn't naturally appear in the four chord, okay?
And then in the five chord, there it is, okay?
So using our matching principle of scales and chords,
over the five chord, this note will sound awesome over
the other chords, because it's a whole step away.
It should still work but if you want it to sound really sweet when you play that five
chord, if you throw that note in there it's gonna sound really cool.
Okay so I'm gonna play the chord progression, I'm gonna noodle with it
a bit over all the chords but watch especially when I hit that five chord.
Watch me hit this note instead of this note.
I might even include both of them sometimes.
But instead of this note, I'm gonna hit this note.
So from our blues scale.
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Instead of.
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That's still gonna sound nice.
Or.
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Okay so, let's check this out.
I'm gonna be playing this over the one, the four, and the five chord.
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All right so you get the idea.
This note can be played over all three chords, but
especially when you go to that five chord.
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Let her rip!
You'll notice that sometimes I don't just hit that one chord,
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Sometimes I'll hit two notes at the same time, and
in this case the reason I did that is those two notes are in the D seven,
I'm sorry, the E seven chord, which is our five chord.
One, four, five.
So not only am I playing this
note which does not naturally occur in the blues scale,
I'm also playing this note which does not naturally occur in the blues scale.
So I'm hitting two notes [SOUND] that don't appear in the blues scale but
man they work really nice over this form.
Okay [SOUND], those two notes do work over the scale but when it comes to that chord,
that five chord, [SOUND] that's the note that you wanna use, or notes, okay?
So again, use the resource section of the website,
pull up some nice blues loops and start whittling away and
add that major two to your blues playing if you want to spice it up and
have it sound a little bit more major, okay?
Let's keep learning.