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Intro

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Scales

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Exercise

9:01

Avoid Notes

9:49

Licks

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Superfund Lick

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Conclusion

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what's up guys Johnny May here and

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welcome to this week's quick tip where

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I'm gonna teach you two essential skills

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that you need to know if you want to

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improvise blues piano now we hear a lot

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of piano students learn their blues

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scale and they'll learn their chords in

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their left hand and then they'll

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improvise using the scale up and down

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the piano

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this is a great place to start however

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after a while it can start to sound very

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repetitive just using this one scale you

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see when I improvise blues piano and

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when professional blues pianists

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improvise the blues they actually tend

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to use two different blue scales and so

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in today's lesson I'm gonna teach you

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both of these scales I'm gonna teach you

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an exercise to practice connecting these

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scales and then I'm gonna teach you to

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amazing licks that incorporates both of

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these scales so let's go ahead and dive

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in alright let's first talk about both

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of these scales you probably already

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know your first scale it's called your C

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blue scale or your C minor blue scale

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the notes in case you don't know them

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are C flat we cross the thumb under to F

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then we go third finger on F sharp then

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we go thumb on G and then B flat okay

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it's a six note scale it's very simple

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okay so if you don't know this you can

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just practice this up the piano want to

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build a little bit of speed here

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generally you land on your fourth finger

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for the sea up at the top and then you

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can practice this back down the piano

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okay do work on getting some speed here

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you can also practice this in multiple

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octaves let's say if you wanted to come

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up to the high C then you would use your

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thumb there on the C and then you can

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bring this all the way up to the high C

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so make sure you know this blues scale

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this is called your C minor blues scale

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and this is a great place to start

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and after a while it can start to sound

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a little bit repetitive because we're

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just using one scale and so when I'm

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playing the Blues and when professional

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blues pianists are playing the Blues

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they're also incorporating a second

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scale which is called the major blues

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scale it's kind of a happier sounding

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scale

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and so this is how we incorporate both

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of these scales well let me go ahead and

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teach you this major blue scale first

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and then we'll talk about how to use

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this in your blues improvisation so the

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major blues scale goes like this by the

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way this is also called the gospel scale

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I use that term a lot the notes of the

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scale are C D d sharp e that's gonna be

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the thumb on e and then we go G and a

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okay and then you can end on your pinky

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on the top C okay so just these six

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notes C D D sharp thumb under to e G and

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a it's a five note scale you can think

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of it as a C pentatonic scale right

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Penta being five with the addition of

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the flat three okay so some people will

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call this pentatonic flat three but the

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technical technical name of it is AC

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major blues scale and you can also call

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it gospel scale ironically this is also

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your a minor blues scale if you took

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your a minor blues scale and you went AC

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d sharp eg a that's an a minor blues

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scale that's the same scale as your C

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major blues scale it shares the same

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notes so this is kind of a little trick

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to remember your major blues scale is

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just go down three half steps from

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whatever key are in so 1 2 3 and then

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it's going to be your a minor blues

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scale

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so they're the same scale right so just

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keep this in mind I do want to mention

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guys this lesson sheet music you're

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seeing up here in the top left of the

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screen is downloadable and principal

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over at piano with Johnny you can also

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change the key with our smart sheet

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music you can actually practice this

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lesson in all 12 keys with the click of

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one button so I'll put a link to that

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below so that is the gospel of scale and

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I recommend just practice practicing

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this on a c7 chord

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coming up the piano building some speed

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up to C you can also do this in multiple

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octaves if you wanted to do this in two

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octaves I would practice the thumb on

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the seat and bring this up to the high C

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just like that okay so the C minor blues

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scale and the C major blues scale so

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once you have both of these scales okay

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well how do we actually then use both of

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these scales in our improvisation well

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before you try to improvise with both of

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these scales you need to practice

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connecting these scales you see because

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a good improviser will mix in both

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scales so this is an exercise I put

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together for you to really help you make

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both of these skills part of your

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playing now before I teach you the

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exercise if you're enjoying this video

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button for more videos just like this so

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here's how the exercise goes we're going

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to play our 12 bar blues in our left

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hand we're gonna start on a high C and

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we're gonna play the major blues scale

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up and the minor blues scale down and

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here's how you do it okay you're gonna

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go up C D

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d sharp E G a C that's gonna be thumb

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make sure use your thumb there and then

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you're gonna go to finger on D and

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that's gonna connect you back down on

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your C minor blue scale and this time

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you're gonna come down B flat G G flat F

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B flat C B flat ok does that make sense

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so we're going up major blue scale

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and down minor blue scale

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and then you can come back up major

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blues scale and minor blues scale

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okay it's actually pretty simple

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exercise now make sure you're swinging

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these notes one and two and three and

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four and one and two and three and four

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and one okay really really important

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okay so we're gonna go over the chords

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here real quick for the 12 bar blues

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we're gonna play if the backing track

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and then I'm gonna show you some really

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sweet lines some riffs and licks that

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you can use with both of these scales

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all right here we go

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let's play the full twelve bar blues

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form a quick review of the Blues chords

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we have c7 that's our first chord we

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have an f7 that's our second chord and

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then later on you're going to see a g7

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that's gonna be like this okay so I'll

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memorize these three chords these are

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the three chords you need to play the

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blues now if you don't know your twelve

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bar blues form you don't know your blues

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chords you can learn these in our 10

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lesson blues challenge I'll put a link

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to that below and we talk really

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in-depth about blues soloing so here we

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go guys let's play the scale up

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and now down on the minor blue scale

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up on the major blue scale

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and then down on the minor blue scale

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up on the major blue scale

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down on the minor blues

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upon major blues

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and again down on minor blues

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now we're gonna switch to that g7 chord

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up on the major blues

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down on the minor blues on the f7 chord

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up on the major blues

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and down on the minor blues

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okay does that make sense now you can

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have some fun with your left can you can

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do some little chord pops sometimes I'll

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do this rhythm called the Charleston

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rhythm

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basically I'm popping the cord on the

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end of beat to one and two and right

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lines up there three and four and and

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then I'll come down one and two and

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we'll line up like that okay you can do

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this on all of the measures okay you

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want to practice this once you get this

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up to speed go ahead and play along with

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the backing track this lesson does come

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with the backing track here we go go

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down and up major blues down minor blues

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up

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down minor blues

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up

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and down

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and down

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down

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alright let's go ahead and stop there I

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do want to mention that this backing

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track is downloadable at piano with

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Johnny comm I'll put a link to that

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below as well I do want to make a quick

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note here before I teach you some of

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these really sweet licks that use these

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two scales that you may have noticed on

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the f7 chord

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that ye does not really line up very

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well with this cord and so this is one

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of the avoid notes basically if I'm

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playing my major blue scale on an f7

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chord because that f7 has an E flat in

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the chord then I would avoid the e

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because this is a a major 7 and the F

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has a dominant 7 in the scored okay if

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you don't know your dominant 7 chords

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then I would check out our 7th chord

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courses over at piano with Johnny so

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make sure to avoid that particular note

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only when you're playing the f7 chord on

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the the c7 and on the g7 it's fine to

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play the E flat because it doesn't

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contradict any of the notes in this

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court alright so here we go let's talk

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about some licks that you can play with

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both of these skills this is where the

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rubber meets the road and you can

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actually start to use these ideas so

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here's a quick example of how I would

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use both skills in a lick check this out

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okay super super cool okay so what am I

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doing here

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basically I'm starting on my C blue

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scale with my B flat on the minor blue

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scale B flat I'm doing a little turn to

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the G so grab that B flat turn down C B

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flat G okay

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and then I'm gonna do a crossover at G

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flat and C okay and then I'm gonna go

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middle finger on F and then e flat C E

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flat and then I'm in this mamas f7 chord

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I'm gonna grab my major blues scale this

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is gonna be the switch here okay D and a

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I'm gonna grab this I'm gonna do a

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little turn off that D okay that's a

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flat DC and now I'm gonna go back to my

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minor blues scale B flat G little

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harmony there gr G flat and C f/c and

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then I'm gonna go back to my major blues

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scale get in that cool I'm grabbing DNA

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on the top doing a little turn off that

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D so grab it turn hey on the bottom CNA

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okay and that's gonna be basically the

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lick and then we repeat it like that

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okay so once more here's the full lick

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it's a minor blues crossover major blues

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minor blues major blues and when you

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speed this up it sounds super cool

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here's a little bit faster

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and that nice and you can do this over

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your full blues form so next chord I'm

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on is on an f7 you can do the same thing

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and that nice you do it on the g7 chord

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okay all right before I teach you lick

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number two I do want to mention if you

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want to learn more licks and riffs just

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like this check out our Bible of blues

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riffs course we have 120 of my favorite

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blues riffs for a beginner through an

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advanced playing level

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all right lick number two this is a

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really fun way that I like to use both

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of these skills together here's how I

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play this one

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[Music]

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okay this is a Superfund lick basically

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I'm starting nice and high on my major

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blues scale DNA I do a little turn off

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the e or the D so I go a flat DC like

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that and then I come back up D and a C

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crossover this time I'm gonna go minor

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blues B flat G I'm gonna stay on my

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minor blues G flat and C down to F and C

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by the way you could use your two finger

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there B flat and C down to C by itself twice

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and now we're gonna go major blues okay

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it's gonna be a down slide from the E

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flat to the D so like that you can use

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your third finger you could use your two

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finger like that so twice on the slide

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and then a and then C an a up to the DNA

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okay and then we do that again little

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pick up note make sense take here's how

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the whole thing sounds one and two and

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three and four and

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and four and one two three and four two

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and three four okay and then if you play

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this with the backing track it sounds

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super cool check out what this sounds

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like a woman - here we go

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[Music]

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all right my friends this concludes this

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