The REAL Way to Use The Blues Scale - Pro Jazz Piano Tricks

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In this Jazz Piano Lesson, we break down 3 unique and interesting jazz piano patterns in the form of runs that you can directly apply to your playing. Even more importantly though, in learning how to play these, you should also see how they are structured and be able to use that skill and knowledge to create your own patterns that are similar for different jazz and neo soul chord progressions.
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Noah Kellman is a musician and teacher known for his unique approach to modern jazz piano. In this video, Noah shares several highly-useful left-hand bass lines that will help you improve technique, rhythm, hand independence, and more.
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0:00 Getting Started
0:42 The G Blues Scale Resolution
3:04 Free Stuff!
3:39 Resolving to Different Chords
4:49 Advanced Resolution Examples
7:52 Non-Dominant Options
8:24 Rhythm Changes

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@dfhwze Жыл бұрын

I upvoted this video before watching it. After watching this video, I can confirm I made the right decision.

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

hahaha thanks so much appreciate it!!

@johncracker5217 Жыл бұрын

Just like every one of Noah’s videos

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

@@johncracker5217 🙏🙏 thanks John!!

@user-xg4td3gg7e 6 ай бұрын

Nice. Playing scales on keyboard piano is my favorite hobby. Thanks. 😉

@robertdbuckley 8 ай бұрын

Great video…helped me use the blues scale when I solo on all my pieces.

@rdettwyler 20 күн бұрын

1. Noah, you make it look easy; I am working towards the day it is easy for me. 2. This is an excellent video, as are your others. 3. You da man.

@NoahKellman 20 күн бұрын

Hey thanks appreciate that 🙏🙏

@flober1970 Жыл бұрын

Thx a lot ! The major blue scale works pretty well too !

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey Florent, yes absolutely! That one is great as well.

@c3ajeff Жыл бұрын

Just the kind of stuff I've been looking for. Thank you.

@ldahui Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this. I had never tought about resolving the blues scale 😅

@matthewnjuguna7899 Жыл бұрын

The journey of piano is a constant battle, jazz has finally opened up the opportunity for me to understand myself, and it all goes back to the blues scale. Still a jazz beginner, but I can’t imagine a life not filled with it, though I’m not necessarily trying to make an income from it, I do think even us enthusiasts need the technicality and understanding of a professional, for meditation, healing, contemplation and really just guidance in loving this life.

@electone2 Жыл бұрын

Noah is that rare case where musical intellectuality meets musicality in the most seamless way! Wonderful material, again.

@caswelljohnstone200 Жыл бұрын

Here's my thoughtful comment: there is quite a bit that is over my head here! There seems to be this next level that lots of people, when they've entered into it, become very easily conversational with the topic. I'm not there yet, but I am jealous of you! I get the concepts about tension and resolving, but the way you fly through the scales and the accompanying chords and movements (especially on the left hand) is simply impressive and beyond me. I know there is something I'm missing that will unlock this, but I don't know what I don't know! Is your JPE course for advanced pianists, or would an amateur (like myself) be able to get a good return on the resources you are making available?

@lethaldose2000 Жыл бұрын

Noah the way that you express and visual the thought patterns that soulful and purposeful blues piano pplaying should be really makes it easy to get to that next level as a blues piano player. Love it. Great and insightful content for sure.

@martinbrook8778 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed to.learn how you can use the blues scale from other keys to add tension to the original key and ways to resolve it. Eager to incorporate these ideas in my own playing.

@sallywebber6579 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Very helpful

@Jamppion Жыл бұрын

Brilliant Noah! Thank you for this ideas, again!!

@andym264 Жыл бұрын

Makes sense......must try

@zackfishman3245 Жыл бұрын

I am trying to use your advice on my trumpet solos and piano solos. Very satisfying when I get it right.

@bryangibson2114 Жыл бұрын

Very nice , i have found your videos to be very helpful

@supratikdas3734 Жыл бұрын

Love from India... Your experiences helps me a lot to understand the scales and applying it to improve playing skills...

@sashaveregin Жыл бұрын

I’m really loving your videos man, thanks for sharing your insights brother. Super keen on the neo soul reharm concepts, would love to dive into that!!!

@robertpien8708 Жыл бұрын

Jazz musicians and also Rock musicand have been using blues scales for a long time . If you can do a video on what is the difference . And how we can use. Them on Rock progressions that would make them sound authentic also. Loved the lesson when we connect to emotion is such a way that is when we learn to express ourselves greatly.

@DavidHiland-nf1om Жыл бұрын

Great guidance for the blues scale!

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Thanks, David, happy you enjoyed it!

@fsixel1 Жыл бұрын

I'm a brasilian pianist, and whant enterro in your curse jazz plano evolucion! Yuo are very ditact to explain ! Congratulacion

@fsixel1 Жыл бұрын

I speak portuguese and corretor is in portuguese, sorry about english errors

@rongould4598 Жыл бұрын

The way you use of dope ass patterns is inspiring❤

@jeanrobertverna1133 Жыл бұрын

very interesting

@Lamkool Жыл бұрын

A very thoughtful insight into using the blues scale.

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Thanks glad you liked it!

@StevieG777 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff Noah. I appreciate the multiple examples, and how you worked the blues scale in with other scales. Very useful technique for adding different colors.

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey Stevie, thanks for the comment. Glad you are finding the tips helpful. Cheers!

@mtbagz Жыл бұрын

Great video and detailed teaching!! Thanks so much!!

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@vincepanero3758 Жыл бұрын

Noah, thanks for demoing these blues tips -- especially the basics of inferring and resolving.

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Sure thing, Vince. Thanks for the comment.

@michaelcarson8878 Жыл бұрын

This is extremely helpful because, like you mentioned, I have that tendency to just play the blues scale in the key of whatever the song is, and I've been trying to find ways to make it more nuanced and interesting

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey Michael, that's awesome, can't wait to hear how this changes your approach!

@Jack-fs2im Жыл бұрын

great stuff and very usable thanx

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Sure thing, Jack

@esiegel2 Жыл бұрын

in the early 60's musicians started using blues phrases in completely unrelated keys. I think ornette kind of started that, dolphy and herbie did it too. It is a very characteristic sound of those three in particular. Its a way to go outside the harmony, as you say, blues phrases really strongly suggest a key, so it was and is a way of creating a polytonal sound when used in a different key.

@george_guitar_lessons Жыл бұрын

Resolution is a key 🔐

@raybart5604 Жыл бұрын

Man alive this has opened some doors. As a guitarist I am hearing a lot of Benson doing this. A big thank you!

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey Ray, amazing, keep up the good work!

@mr.fantasee Жыл бұрын

I'm learning so much from your videos thank you Noah!

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

@jeremyhope1649 Жыл бұрын

I had to come to this through listening a feeling, well said on the tension and resolution. My classical piano teacher was incredible but didn't feel the "blues". He felt Beethoven, Brahms etc which I would argue are expressing the soul differently but with no less than blues. How it is played is where the players should is expressed in the written music IMO. Thank you!

@pekkalaine-loungevibes74 Жыл бұрын

Blues-scale adds nice tension to phrygian vamp too. For example with F7(b9)sus try Bb-blues scale. Probably not the first choise scale but worth trying

@donniediago Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, interesting ideas

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Donnie

@ariel100531 Жыл бұрын

Clears up a lot of the confusion for me about what I’m supposed to do with the blues scales. Running back home to start comping and work the 1625 progression✊🏽

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Glad it's helping you move forward.

@vortexsophia Жыл бұрын

This is just so good and easy to follow. I wish this was around as a teen banging my head away with classical piano trying to pull usable modern music from instead of Hannon exercises.Same with the pentatonics and McCoy videos.

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks 🙏 I definitely know what you mean

@xterminatorau Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@terrymiller111 Жыл бұрын

How many times do you listen to that little intro? Three. Awesome stuff.

@niccolomaldera 11 ай бұрын

Noah, the rhythm changes part was incredible. Can you explain us more about those amazing blues lines? I see some double notes but I don't know how to create that sound

@bengtchr Жыл бұрын

Would be great with a lesson on options and examples of how to use the blues scale in a turnaround and in jazz standards. Which key, which tension resolution and must-notes.

@WiardMusic Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video! I always associated the blues scale with pentatonic scales, but this video has opened my eyes a bit about how you can use it as something else!

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it, Wiard! My pleasure.

@JohnPaulRiger Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s cool! Sometimes I also love to use the blues scale from a minor third beneath the dominant I chord. So like if I’m jammin out in G7 I can use the G blues scale for sure and also the E blues scale too and then mix em up with a few chromatic fills and a quick slice of the altered scale of root’s tritone. In fact, recently I’ve found and have been exploring that every altered scale is functional on any dominant chord. Believe me! I know! I’m still trying to wrap my head around that one, but it’s true! I’m seriously in uncharted waters a lot and am loving sailing to somewhere totally unknown before! 🤣

@irawardmusic Жыл бұрын

Awesome lesson Noah! There are a lot of good tips here. I like using the Emin7 blues scale over the 5 and 4 descending back to the 1. Although jazz is a more complexed music, blues is a much more complicated music as it has rules LOL. You have to know when and how to break those rules for it remains blues LOL. Thanks for sharing!

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for the comment, appreciate you sharing your approach.

@frankmontis Жыл бұрын

I think the Major 3rd should be included in the Blues Scale, like you are actually doing I guess. As an organ player that listened a lot to the greats like Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff and all the other legendary players that played a lot of blues orientated jazz, I think they almost always include the major 3rd in the Blues Scale. Usually as a slide from the minor third to the major third or as a resolution note.

@Yapouchkine1 Жыл бұрын

THANX THANX THANX ......THANX!

@steveimprovises Жыл бұрын

Great video. I've been really getting into using the "happy" blues scale based on the 6th of a key, it has this old timey Count Basie ish sound. Practicing that has made the blue notes creep into my wackier chord progressions. I never thought of using the full blues scale over neo progressions, I'll definitely give it a try.

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, yes I believe you're referring to the Major Blues Scale. Absolutely, that one sounds great! Let me know how giving this a shot goes.

@steveimprovises Жыл бұрын

@Noah Kellman @Noah Kellman I don't know what to call it. I discovered it from Tony Winston, who sometimes calls it "the other blues scale" or "the jazz blues scale" or "the happy blues scale". For example, I'm playing Hay Burner, which is in F, but soloing using a D blues scale. I don't really like to call a blues scale major or minor, it just is what it is. But I really appreciate the advice in your video to use it more often on more kinds of chords and progressions.

@alan-ml2yg Жыл бұрын

I tried to understand that device from old Ray Charles recordings, but now it is much more clear¡ Love that resolution sound :) Thanks and greetings from Spain,

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey Alan, I’m glad to hear you understand it now. Cheers!

@dfhwze Жыл бұрын

5:24 reminds me of Jill Scott - Golden, or was is an Anita Baker song (sweet love) ..

@user-we8yy4mx1r 8 ай бұрын

About considering destination and resolving to the next chord rather than micro focusing on the current chord.

@jayswitzer9871 Жыл бұрын

I think a combination of learning the song and chords traditionally, learning to solo on chord tones bebop style is paramount to hear and internalize, get the power of knowledge under your fingers first and then be able to get down and dirty with the blues notes from the key of the song would be my strategy. but I also never learned Oscar chops because i thought they were to hard , instead wynton kelly and McCoy were my go to's. ... I'm making a playlist of every Oscar tutorial i can find... I think my goal for this year would be to learn to Oscar-ize any song.

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey Jay, for sure, I agree with that. I think understanding bebop improvisation is a great foundation. I have some specific tutorials about Oscar as well. Cheers!

@TheGabrielMagioni Жыл бұрын

Thank Noah this was great! It helps a lot to see the blues scale resolving in different progressions and contexts, specially when it’s more jazzy stuff. It’s a very detailed explanation as well

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey Gabriel, happy to help! Yeah I always found this subject confusing so I liked the idea of clarifying for everyone. Cheers!

@madd2377 Жыл бұрын

Hi, what app do you use to show the keyboard, the staff, the chords and intervals as you play? Thank you

@johncracker5217 Жыл бұрын

You should collaborate with brother Jeff Schneider

@phildupuis1084 Жыл бұрын

As soon as you mentioned that this was a device by Oscar Peterson you got my interest. Very useful video.

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Thanks Phil, good to hear you found it valuable.

@BroadwayMelody1974 Жыл бұрын

what is the programm your working with called?

@diplamatikjuan3595 Жыл бұрын

I was stinkfacing my way through this entire video. Thanks for the wrinkles Noah, great tutorial!

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey, you're welcome! Thanks for the comment.

@HappinessKazimoto-in3er Жыл бұрын

😮😮😮

@jazzzman1000 Жыл бұрын

Bro, what is that tee-shirt?!! LOL

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

hahah actually the artist who did my album art made it and it's the character logo of his company! His name is Nick Prevas and he's incredible, check him out - www.feral-kids.com/nickprevas

@VinceKully Жыл бұрын

Would have been nice if you explained what the blues scale is... Seems like some say it includes the flat 3, others say it contains the sharp 4.. As a beginner, it was unclear what u were talking about right away. Perhaps this channel isn't for beginners?

@mharbaugh Жыл бұрын

The blues scale used here has both a minor 3rd AND a sharp 4. In C, it's: C Eb F F# G Bb C In G, it's: G Bb C C# D F G This is sometimes referred to as the "minor blues scale," but often is simply the "blues scale."

@NoahKellman Жыл бұрын

Hey Vince, I do have a nice playlist of beginner videos which is called Jazz Piano 101, however the channel overall is more geared toward intermediate and beyond as there are a lot of other beginner channels out there. Make sure to check out Marcus' answer below as it's a great answer to your question! Nice to meet you and hope to see you around the channel and jazz piano community. If you'd like more tips / guidance, consider joining the discord server (link beneath video) as there are tons of people in there who could help you.