- 1. By: Lama and IshaALL ABOUT THE BLUES
2. The Blues Scale is Played in two Different Scales:The
Hexatonic Scale:Which Sounds Like This:And The Heptatonic
ScaleWhich Sounds Like This:THE BLUES SCALE 3. On Piano the Blues
Scale Looks Like and Sounds Like This:C, D, E Flat, F, E Flat, A, B
Flat and COn Guitar the Blues Scale Looks Like and Sounds Like
This:HOW IS THE BLUES SCALE PLAYEDON PIANO AND GUITAR? 4. On Piano
the Key of C Look Like This:On Piano the Key Of A Looks Like
This:On Piano the Key of G Looks Like This:THE BLUES CHORDS IN THE
KEYOF C, A AND GAnd Sounds Like This:And Sounds Like This:And
Sounds Like This: 5. On Guitar the Key of C Looks Like This:On
Guitar the Key of A Looks Like This:On Guitar the Key of G Looks
Like This:THE BLUES CHORDS IN THE KEYOF C, A AND G 6. Walking Bass
Line is a Style of Music That is Accompanied by the Bass,Which
Gives the Music a Quarter Note Beat. This is Commonly Played in
Jazzand Blues Music; Sometimes Even Classical.WALKING BASS LINE 7.
Walking Bass Line on Piano Looks Like This:Walking Bass Line on
Guitar Looks Like This:HOW CAN THE WALKING BASS LINEBE PLAYED ON
PIANO AND GUITAR?And Sounds Like This:And Sounds Like This: 8. On
Drums You Play Shuffle by Playing it Around the Eighth Note
Triplets.The First Four Notes Should be Played on a 2-4 Beat Pulse;
While the LastTwo Notes are Played as a Half-Note Pulse.On Drums
When You Want to Play the Swing Feel its Basically Just Likethe
Shuffle Except You Combine the Symbol With Your Drum. You Have
toPlay The Song With a Swing-Laid Back Feel.The Use of Triplets is
That You Get to Rest in the Middle After Playing aThree-Note
Triplet Group. Triplets Allow the Musician to Give Music aRhythmic
Pattern Without Clashing or Destroying the Rest of the
Melody.SHUFFLE, BASIC DRUM BEATS,USE OF TRIPLETS IN BLUES 9. Tonic
in Music is the Very First Degree on a Music Scale (the Keynote,
Ex. Cis the Tonic Note in B Flat Concert Scale)Subdominant in music
is the Fourth Note on a Diatonic ScaleDominant in Music is the
Fifth Note on a Diatonic Scale and its Importanceis Right After the
Tonic Note.TONIC, SUBDOMINATE ANDDOMINATE TERMS IN MUSIC 10. Call
and Response in Music is When One Person Starts a Note or Melody,
Then theSecond Person Either Repeats What the First Person Did or
Finishes it.In Jazz Call and Response is Usually Just a Note Played
and Then the Second PersonRepeats it. You Can Also Have Two People
Play the Same Melody, Accept TheyWould Play the Notes in Two
Different Octaves (a High Octave and a Low Octave)Heres an Example
of Call and Response in JazzCALL AND RESPONSE IN MUSICAND JAZZ 11.
Trading Four is When Two or More Solo Instruments Play Back and
ForthFour Measures Each.YouTube
Links:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFjKk6gd-cMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WWg7SrMB-Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtGedWqRxeETRADING
FOURS 12. Introduction: The Beginning of a Blues Song Usually
Starts Off With Singing, a Solo From anInstrument or a Very Catchy
Theme That Pulls in the Song or Explains the Main Melody of the
SongStatement of Head: The Statement of Head is Usually the Songs
Main Theme or the Most DramaticPart of the SongImprovised Lines:
Improvised Lines in Music are Known as Musical Improvisation Which
Combineson How You Play Your Instrument With the Song and How You
Feel With the Music and OtherMusicians.Restatement of Head: When
the Statement of the Head is Repeated or Restated.Ending/Coda: A
Coda is Played Right Before the Ending of a Song. You Play a
Specific Set ofMeasures and Once That Part is Played You Go Back to
the Ending of the Song and Finish It.INTRODUCTION, STATEMENT
OFHEAD, IMPROVISED LINES,RESTATEMENT OF HEAD, ANDENDING (CODA) 13.
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(CONT.) 15. Any Questions?THANKS FOR WATCHING!
