From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation
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Essential jazz scales: D minor, G7, and C major bop scales
From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation
Essential jazz scales: D minor, G7, and C major bop scales
- Let's get our two five going to C, the people's key. The chord here, first chord we're going to work on, D minor seven, D, F, A, and C, we've got our D minor triad, straight up, add the seventh, we get a, kind of a jazz flavor to it. Then we go to G seven, and then to C major seven. That's the major seven right there. As we've been doing, the the minor bop scale is going to go up, and have a little bit of an extra degree between five and six, and the natural seven, as opposed to a flat seven, so, the scale, (plays scale) you can see, is D, E, F, G, A, our passing tone, A sharp, to B, C sharp (continues playing scale). Let's take a look at the fingering here, the way I do it, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, three ... Something about the bop scales, that they just seem to all naturally fall into that little group of fingering. I haven't really focused on it, but there's not a natural way to get the fourth and the fifth involved with…
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