From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
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Combined pentatonic scale
From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
Combined pentatonic scale
- So we're finding more and more right hand sounds that will work over a 12-bar blues. If you put them all together, you end up with something called the combined pentatonic scale. This scale is built by putting all of the notes from the major pentatonic scale together with all of the notes from the blues scale, which we know is just the minor pentatonic plus one extra note. Let's check this out in the key of C, Here's the C major pentatonic. (C major scale) C, D, E, G, and A. That gives you one type of sound on the blues. Now here's a C blues scale. (C blues scale) That gave us another type of sound on the blues. Put together, you get C, D, E-flat, E, F, G-flat, G, A, and B-flat. And we have endless sound possibilities. Okay, that's a lot of notes to work with and sometimes we have to be careful how we use them. For an example, here's an idea from the combined scale that we might play over the first four bars in a C blues. (C blues music) Now normally we might choose to repeat the…
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