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The Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale) 2

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Instructor
Jonny May
Workshop
Intermediate
Advanced
02:23:11

In this workshop, you will learn the most important piano scale for improvising over any musical style – the Major Blues Scale!

We’ll start with 3 left hand accompaniment options including chord shells, guide tones, and rootless voicings. Jonny will you teach you his best techniques for improvising, including 3 harmonized grips, 2 gospel connectors, 8th notes, triplets, slides, turns, rolls, and other line building tips. We’ll dive further into the scale by learning the fingering for both hands in all 12 keys.

In the end, you’ll be able to improvise with this scale over blues, swing, bossa nova, and jazz ballads!

Course Objectives
  • Learn the Major Blues Scale with fingering for both hands in all 12 keys
  • Discover 3 left hand accompaniment options you can use to improvise over the right hand: chord shells, guide tones, and rootless voicings
  • Practice 3 essential exercises to master finger control, dexterity and speed
  • Develop your improv technique with 2 harmonized grips, 2 gospel connectors, harmonized 8th notes, harmonized triplets, and harmonized slides
  • Embellish the right hand with 3 harmonized turns and 2 essential rolls
  • Understand how to use this scale to improv over 4 styles: blues, swing, bossa nova, and jazz ballad
Learning Focus
  • Exercises
  • Improvisation
  • Scales
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RIgorous but rewarding
Started this course on May 4th - finished October 10 - over 5 months - there is a lot to learn in this course and like all of Jonny's courses, they all well designed and structured for progressive development from 1 stage to the next. Control your progress and ypu will reap the benefit.... well done ... again

Course Lessons

1
The Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale) 2 – Lesson 1
05:46

The Major Blues Scale

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2
The Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale) 2 – Lesson 2
26:43

Major Blues Scale Exercises

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3
The Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale) 2 – Lesson 3
40:32

Improvisation/Soloing Part 1

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4
The Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale) 2 – Lesson 4
29:08

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5
The Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale) 2 – Lesson 5
18:44

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6
The Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale) 2 – Lesson 6
11:10

Fingering Reference in All 12 Keys

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7
The Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale) 2 – Lesson 7
11:08

Q&A

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Featured Reviews

View PWJ member reviews of this course!

RIgorous but rewarding
Started this course on May 4th - finished October 10 - over 5 months - there is a lot to learn in this course and like all of Jonny's courses, they all well designed and structured for progressive development from 1 stage to the next. Control your progress and ypu will reap the benefit.... well done ... again
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