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Blues etude: Part 1

Blues etude: Part 1

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Blues etude: Part 1

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- Alright here's a blues etude that I'm going to be leading in to. Blues is obviously a very important part of bluegrass and blues and all musics pretty much. It's a big part of American music and basically when you're playing blues you're playing out of a blues scale. But let's start with just a regular G diatonic scale. (plays scale) Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do. Zero two on the third string. Zero one on the second string. Zero two, four, five or you can hit the fifth string for the last note. And a blues scale is generally a pentatonic scale. You might add another note or two, to kind of make it a little more colorful. But (plays scale) since we are in the wonderful world of G, as we so often are in bluegrass, (plays scale) we're going to deal with a pentatonic scale, from the Greek "Penta". I'm on slightly shaky ground there but I'm pretty sure that's right. Meaning "five", it's a five note scale. (plays scale) One, two, three, four, five. And then you end on the same note you…

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