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The Blue Scale: Piano


Ever wished you could play the blue scale. here is a little tip for you. The blue scale is a combination of the
 major diatonic scale(meaning all your natural notes,chords) plus three additional notes which are:
  • The flatted 3rd
  • The sharp 4th/ flatted 5th
  • The flatted 7th 
 So the blues scale really contains 11 notes -- the 8 of the normal diatonic scale -- and the 3 "blue notes". 
These are used in various combinations, as we shall see, to create a "bluesy sound".
     The blues started  not as a piano style, but as a vocal style, and of course the human voice can sing "in the cracks" between
the notes on the keyboard. So when we play blues on the keyboard, we try to imitate the human voice by playing BOTH the
3rd and the flat 3rd -- BOTH the 5th and the flat 5th -- BOTH the 7th and the flat 7th. We would play in the cracks if we could,
but we can't, so we do the best we can by combining the intervals to imitate the quarter steps that a human voice can sing. (Certain    
instruments can do that too -- for example, the trombone. Since it has a slide, it can hit an infinite number of tones between any
two keyboard notes.). Here is a formula chart for all your blue chords.
  

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