From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
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Playing off the dominant chord and dominant bass line
From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
Playing off the dominant chord and dominant bass line
- We can use dominant chords in our right hand as well to add a whole lot of interesting note choices and sounds to what we might play in our right hand. Here's a figure I call playing off the dominant chord. We start this figure by playing the root, fifth, and flat seventh of the chord. Here it is in G. G, D, F. Then we're going to bring the fifth and seventh down to become the fourth and the sixth, C and E. And finally resolve to the root third and fifth, G B D. And we keep the root on the bottom the whole time. You can just think of outlining a G7 chord and then a G triad, but with a passing chord in between. Okay, let's try this on a C chord now. We'll have C, G, and B flat, moving to C F A, and then C E G. Okay, and we can play down the figure and then back up. How 'about on a D7 chord? We'll have D, F sharp, and C. I'm sorry, D, A, and C moving to D, G and B, then D, F sharp, and A. Okay? Now our approach to playing through the form changes a little bit. We have to play the…
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