Chords for Bluesette Improv Insights Lesson Demo

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_ _ [Dm] _ Alright, [Gm] I want to show [C] you a [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] study _ _ using [Eb] scales to solo [Ab] around bluesette.
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And [Eb] I think this is [Db] valuable.
_ [Eb] This is where you're going to [Dbm] draw your _ [Gb] _ _ _ [C] _
notes [F] from, your melodic [D] phrases are from the [Db] scales
and the [Bb] arpeggios as well.
But again, this [Dm] is just a good [A] lesson _ to [Gb] give you [Gm] some insights into improv.
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_ _ [Eb] _ Well, I've got a few different concepts here. _
[Gbm] One of [Ab] them is _ playing as [Db] soon as_
[E] it's kind of a neat [Gb] thing.
[Eb] If I'm in the key _ [Gb] of _
_ _ [Eb] E flat, and [Bbm] then I have _ [Gb] E flat minor to A flat 7 [Fm] to D flat.
[A] Now there's four [B] bars.
Bar of E [C] flat minor, bar of A flat, [Fm] _ _
and bar of D flat, or two bars of D [E] flat.
I can play just in the D flat scale [Db] as soon as that E minor, because that's [Bb] two of D flat,
[Gb] _ _ _ five [Db] of D flat, and then one.
So [A] anything I play in D flat is going to sound [E] nice.
And that happens a couple of times in here.
First in E flat, _ then on D flat, and then on B. _ _
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_ _ _ So at that point, you know, we can kind of pour it on, we can play some harder things,
_ or we can double time and sound kind of cool.
So there's a couple of different ideas.
Also, we're going to explore the idea _ of playing the _ _ harmonic minor.
In other words, if I'm in the key _ _ _ _ of_if_i I have an E flat minor chord to A flat 7, _ I would generally play that D Dorian, _ or that would be _ _ E_excuse_ me, D flat major, _ or E flat Dorian. _ _ _ _ What I could do is instead of playing D flat major, I could play D flat harmonic minor. _ [Eb] So _ when I do that, [Am] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ I get [B] the sound and then go to D flat [Ebm] major, _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [E] _ B harmonic [G] minor, _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ B major. [Em] And so I'm playing basically _ the harmonic minor _ _ _ _ _ of the _ _ home key and then going to major. So it's a neat effect. [Eb] _ _ So we'll [Am] explore that as well. So let's [Dbm] get into some of these [C] soloing [D] ideas. [F] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] Here's B flat, _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ E flat, _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [G] _
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that was [C] B major. [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _
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We're starting off our improv with scales, and _ _ _ we're going to use scales as our source [Bb] of material to draw from. _ And the first scale, since we have a B flat major 7 [E] chord and we're in the key of B flat, is B flat major. _ _ _ Now, in order for that scale not to sound so much like a scale, don't start on the root. Whenever you do your studies, get used [Eb] to [G] practicing _ and [C] _ playing [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ everything but the root, _ _ [Gb] _ as far as starting on _ the _ _ starting note. [Bb] When I do [G] this, even in the study, _ _ you know, it sounds so scale. But [D] if I play this, [G] _ _ _ it doesn't sound as bad. _ _ _ So there's our first _ [Bm] _ scale for measures one and two. It looks like this, starting on D, the [Fm] third of the chord, _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ _
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[Bm] and then we'll end it on the B flat. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ The next scale is going to be G [Abm] harmonic minor, [A] because I have A minor 7 flat [D] 5 to D7. _ That's 2 5 of G [Em] minor. And we are going to go to a G minor. _ [E] So if I use the harmonic minor, _ _ it's going to bring out the flat 5 for the A [Bb] minor 7 flat 5, as well as it's also going to bring out the flat _ _ 9 _ E flat against the D7, as well as the augmented [D] 7, _ the B flat _ note. So [Gm] that scale looks like this. Now again, I'm not starting on the note G. _ _ If I did, it would [Ebm] look like this. _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ I'm going to start on [D] A. _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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_ _ So there's [E] my scale. _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
So far we have this. _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ So that's 2 5 of G minor, which takes us to G minor. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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