Comments on: C Blues Piano Scale (Video)

By: Lee Clarke

Lee Clarke — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 03:53:37 +0000

Thanks for this on c blues and also the Christmas Carol Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas lesson with the stride. Still would like We Wish You A Merry Christmas in Gb on the blog. Also Oh Christmas Tree ala Vince Guaraldi in F. Thanks for all your efforts.

By: joshua

joshua — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:21:19 +0000

thanks a lot for the lessons it has given me some improvements.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:28:55 +0000

In reply to Johnny. My pleasure, Johnny - glad I can help!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:28:33 +0000

In reply to Gerard Morris. Glad you like it, Gerard! Yeah, I find that looking at the keys, scales, chords in different ways in my mind really helps me play and remember them.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:38:42 +0000

I am really enjoying the lessons you are sending. I had a liver transplant and am own disability, so I have a lot of time to practice. I hope to purchase your course soon. Thank you so much for sending the news letters and lessons.

By: Gerard Morris

Gerard Morris — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 03:38:03 +0000

Love it: the colour coding, the shapes (the mountain and the V), the ‘voicings’ in the left hand. Mind you I haven’t tried it yet and I doubt I can move my right hand fingers as fast as you or stay as co-ordinated, but it looks as if I might be able to improvise safely following those instructions. By “safely”, I mean, “without playing anything discordant”.
I have learned to improvise in D major, playing single notes of the pentatonic scale, 1,2,3 5,6 i.e. D, E, F#, A, B in the right hand and pairing those notes with chords that I see in Buskers’ books for songs written in D major, i.e. D, Em, F#m, Bm, pivoting on A7 before resolving on D. It is also “safe” to use a G chord (in the left), even sometimes an E, E7 or B7. When I do this improvising, someone listening might say,”That sounds nice” (because the tune is “safe” and always resolves) or “take your foot off the loud pedal!” which I often forget to do.
Most of my chordings in the left are three note (except where I add the seventh, e.g. Em7 or Dm7) and in first position. I must learn more about “voicings” and inverting chords.
I have great difficulty remembering how to play even simple three or four chord tunes: why is that? I have your piano by ear CDs but haven’t unwrapped them yet.
Please keep the colour coding.
Regards,
Gerard