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Welcome to music theory lesson #2! Congratulations on completing the following lessons already:

Day 1: Major Scales (Yesterday)


... but we still have 9 days to go!


Day 2: Minor Scales / Blues Scale
Day 3: Whole Steps, Half Steps & Intervals
Day 4: Major Chords & Minor Chords
Day 5: Chord Inversions
Day 6: Seventh Chords
Day 7: Blues Chord Progression
Day 8: Scales & Chords
Day 9: Ear-Training
Day 10: Playing in every key


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Lesson 2: Minor Scales/ Blues Scales
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As we learned yesterday - Scales are Important!!!!!!

If you know your scales, playing chords will be very very easy to do!



The Minor Scale
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If you remember, the major scale pattern is:

W-W-H-W-W-W-H

Now, to add another "scale" to your musical toolbox, the minor scale pattern is simply:

W - H - W - W - H - W - W

The (C Minor Scale) is:

C - D - E flat - F - G - A flat - B flat - and C


From C to D is a whole step (w).

From D to E flat is a half step (h).

From E flat to F is a whole step (w).
From F to G is a whole step (w).

From G to A flat is a half step (h).

From A flat to B flat is a whole step (w).
From B flat to C is a whole step (w).

Try playing all 12 minor scales with the pattern above (C min, D flat min, D min, E flat min, and so on...)


Gospel Music
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Gospel music is closely associated with the minor scale. Another scale that gospel music (and many other styles of music) utilizes is the:


Blues Scale
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You've heard it in B.B. King's music! You've heard it in gospel, jazz, and rock. Just about any type of music you can think of utilizes the Blues Scale.

The Blues Scale is simply a minor scale without a few notes, and... with one "other" note added. An example is given below:

Remember that the (C minor) scale is:

C (1), D(2), E flat (3), F(4), G(5), A flat (6), B flat (7), and C (8) *** numbers represent scale degree


To create a blues scale, simply get rid of the (2) and (6) degree. In (C minor), that would be D and A flat. Then add the note in between the (4) and (5) degree.

1: Omitting the (2) and (6) notes would create the following scale:

C, E flat, F , G, B flat, C

2. Adding the note in between the (4) - F & the (5) - G would mean adding an F# (or G flat) between F and G.

3. The new scale is:

C - E flat - F - G flat - G - B flat - C

Try playing it!

Note: A blues scale only has 7 tones.


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Blues Scales are always heard in gospel music!
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Listen to some of your recordings and you're guaranteed to hear them!


Well... thank you for your time once again! I'll write to you tomorrow!

Jermaine
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More Music Theory Piano Lessons

Major Scales Music Theory
Minor Scales / Blues Scale Theory
Whole Steps, Half Steps & Intervals
Major Chords & Minor Chords
Piano Chord Inversions
Piano Seventh Chords
Blues Piano Chord Progression
Piano Scales & Piano Chords
Piano and Keyboard Ear-Training
Playing in Every Major Piano Key
Common Musician Questions P1
Common Musician Questions P2
"4 Steps to Playing Most Songs"

 

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