[0:00] do you know the three scales that all
[0:03] great jazz musicians
[0:07] know that's
[0:12] diminished that's
[0:17] pentatonic and that's the blue scale if
[0:20] you're not up on those three scales no
[0:22] problem I've got you covered trigger
[0:24] warning this gets a little Advanced and
[0:26] I go fast because we're hitting three
[0:28] indispensable scales in just 6 minutes
[0:30] but it's super essential if you want to
[0:32] become a great player and make sure to
[0:33] stick around to the end I've got a
[0:35] special bonus secret scale something
[0:37] that none of the theory books ever talk
[0:39] about but that all the pros use so let's
[0:42] dive in first up is the diminish scale
[0:44] what exactly is the diminish scale it's
[0:46] an octatonic or eight note scale that
[0:49] alternates between half and whole steps
[0:51] let's look at the diminished scale in
[0:53] the key of
[0:57] C half step whole step step half step
[1:01] whole step half step whole step half
[1:04] step whole step c d flat d flat E F
[1:09] sharp G A B flat C simple stuff
[1:15] diminished half hole scale okay how do
[1:17] we use it well we can add
[1:20] tension over a dominant
[1:26] chord so if we're starting on C7 and
[1:29] then then we're going to resolve to F
[1:30] major normally we might be
[1:32] [Music]
[1:34] going just over the dominant scale but
[1:37] with that diminished half
[1:42] hole it gives us the flat nine the sharp
[1:45] nine sharp 11 to
[1:48] [Music]
[1:52] 13 all those great tension points next
[1:56] we have the pentatonic scale this is of
[1:58] course a five note scale and it's worth
[2:00] noting that there's actually quite a few
[2:03] different types of pentatonic scales but
[2:05] the most important is the minor
[2:13] pentatonic so what is it we've got C E
[2:16] flat F G B flat C so we've got the root
[2:22] C the minor third the fourth the fifth
[2:27] the dominant 7eventh and back up to the
[2:29] root
[2:34] all right how do we use the minor
[2:36] pentatonic here's an example over a
[2:38] classic C minor
[2:40] [Music]
[2:57] sound now you notice I'm not just
[2:59] running up and
[3:00] [Music]
[3:02] down that doesn't really work I'm
[3:05] varying
[3:06] it I'm finding those shapes in there you
[3:10] can check a link below I did a whole
[3:12] video on how to practice this minor
[3:14] pentatonic scale to get you to that
[3:16] place our third and final essential
[3:18] scale is the blue scale now what exactly
[3:21] is the blue scale well be glad that you
[3:23] just learned the pentatonic scale
[3:25] because the blue scale is exactly the
[3:27] same with just one additional
[3:35] note okay so the
[3:38] pentatonic the
[3:40] blues that flatted fifth that's the
[3:43] additional
[3:45] note okay so we got six notes 1 2 3 4 5
[3:48] 6 back up to the root C E flat F F sharp
[3:54] or g flat flat and fifth G natural B
[3:58] flat C
[4:02] [Music]
[4:15] that's all with the blue scale and you
[4:17] see how coming out of those patterns
[4:19] those shapes that we learn from the
[4:21] pentatonic scale how you can really
[4:22] spice things
[4:23] [Music]
[4:26] up now this is not really the
[4:29] traditional way way that we use the blue
[4:30] scale it works there too if we kind of
[4:32] [Music]
[4:40] do over an actual
[4:44] [Applause]
[4:57] Blues that's the three scales that all
[4:59] the Masters know of course there's a
[5:01] bunch more but if you get these down
[5:03] you're going to be well on your way to
[5:05] being a fantastic jazz musician now
[5:07] here's a little bonus here we learned
[5:09] the
[5:10] pentatonic the blue scale what about the
[5:13] secret blue
[5:16] scale same as the blue scale but with a
[5:19] major third
[5:23] also that's how you get that real blue
[5:25] sound so you got the root minor 3D major
[5:28] 3D fourth flat and Fifth Fifth dominant
[5:34] seventh rot c e flat E F FP G B flat
[5:46] C gives you a lot of flexibility
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[6:08] peace and
[6:19] piano someone's been using my setup