Soul Scales (major Blues scale) for Improvisation - All instruments

Soul Scales (major Blues scale) for Improvisation - All instruments - part 1

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7 жыл бұрын

Pdf of exercises here: jazzduets.com/collections/exe...
This video is meant for newcomers to Jazz improvisation (but not music) who are hungry to learn and play the more 'exotic' notes that Jazz and Blues players use to express themselves that are not included in the Academic scales they perhaps already know, and who are perhaps unsure of how to approach learning and assimilating these
colourful (may be unfamiliar) sounds, especially if they are new to the Jazz Genre.
I hope by introducing these 'colourful' notes here
to share some raw material that students
can practice in creative ways.
I have included some examples of lines to whet the appetite
cheers- Nick Homes
Skype Classes- www.jazzduets.com/contact
0:45 - Blues Arpeggio
2:40 - Soul Pentatonic
3:26- Examples of Soul Pentatonic over major vamp
4:50 - Soul Scale
5:20 - Examples of Soul Scale
6:00 - 7 Note Soul Scale
6:35 - Examples of 7 Note Soul Scale

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@brianswitzer 7 жыл бұрын

Keep at it. You'll eventually go viral. Congrats

@JazzDuets 7 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@hectorromero8215 3 жыл бұрын

I agree !

@jamestaylor3595 6 жыл бұрын

Maaaaaan you are doing the lord's work out here in these music theory streets.

@JazzDuets 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much my brother!

@alessandrobuontempo9240 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Maestro! You really get to the point. I am a self-taught amateur studying in an academic way and I feel like I am not able to connect with my musical brain while improvising or approaching songs. This will definitely help me a lot!

@ThanakarnSrifun 8 ай бұрын

Easy excercise & practice Easy to understand

@karlakaay Жыл бұрын

You are an amazing teacher. Gracias! Greetings from México

@daveaustin4538 6 жыл бұрын

I am a full-time professional pianist, and these videos are creating breakthroughs in my thinking that simplify and allow me to move more freely on the keyboard.

@aggelospikrakis5201 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, distilled, scale exercises. Thank you for sharing.

@mehertouihri1940 5 жыл бұрын

it's brilliant how you offer diamond Information and you explain it in such a smart accessible way :) cheers from Berlin :)

@dragoscolce 5 жыл бұрын

This channel is PURE GOLD dude!!! I couldn't be more grateful for these videos!

@barakados 6 жыл бұрын

The best master class I've seen in internet.

@thebowdjangos2662 6 жыл бұрын

Guitar teacher and music nerd here...your vids really are some of the best out there! Keep up the great work!!

@bicisendasmusic8242 6 жыл бұрын

Sos un capo, todo súper claro y ordenado, felicitaciones mil

@760Piper 7 жыл бұрын

Great job Nick!! You present these concepts in a very clear way. Love the way you teach.

@todboreham9186 2 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic! Invaluable knowledge. Thank you 🙏

@bf2err 5 жыл бұрын

Hey man I just wanted to say thanks for all the quality content. I really appreciate it.

@CarlosRicovslosmolinosdeviento 6 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Thank you. I love it!

@alessandropatricio9889 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing how good and rich are your explanations. Thanks!

@theps3god12 6 жыл бұрын

This man is giving such invaluable advice. It took me years of listening and studying music to grasp all the subtleties in the Jazz idiom he's teaching in just a few hours of video. You rock man, and I hope everyone appreciates your work too.

@LPmiester 6 жыл бұрын

Great presentation of this topic. Very useful across all solo instruments

@ortizvillarreal4070 6 жыл бұрын

I highly appreciate your help!

@josephfraley4614 5 жыл бұрын

Ive been studying music theory and jazz on the piano for about a year, and have been really conscious of the gap between traditional theory presentation and the use of scales/theoretical ideas in a popular music context. i really appreciate your videos! i also like: adam neeley tantacrul new jazz nahre sol jeff schneider if you dont know them already you might like their pedagogical ideas!

@wstulgin 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks...seeing some things described in a different manner. Always a good thing

@valeriadele4373 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for presenting such vital information so neatly and concisely

@JazzStrat781 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome videos! Very much appreciated! Thanks so much!

@dennis_johnson 4 жыл бұрын

So grateful for these :)

@BernoRock 6 жыл бұрын

I really need your videos. Thank you so much!!!

@GlennMichaelThompson 2 жыл бұрын

I've been using this note grouping for years. I just called it a major blues scale. Soul scale works for me too. Love your videos! I can't afford the pdf's right now so I take the time to write them down from the videos. You put out some great information. Thanks so much! 🙏

@carlosfernandez3565 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@DanDan-jp4wk 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Thanks so much

@mathijslemmens9727 6 жыл бұрын

Finally someone who can explain scales without using those difficult terms, keep on the great work !!

@monkeydelightmm 6 жыл бұрын

This is so awesome!!

@ericy1005 2 жыл бұрын

Ridiculously good vid! Common Now!!!

@dazzid 6 жыл бұрын

clean simple and beautiful

@antoineburguiere3137 6 жыл бұрын

Great videos really!! thanks a lot Nick

@tdubasdfg 6 жыл бұрын

Woah. The soul scale is the major version of the blues scale. Great lesson!

@Sophiestelle 6 жыл бұрын

Lovely knowledge; thank you very much!

@patrickgriffiths2628 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson man , love you stuf. !!!!!

@jean-pierrelobsiger2045 5 жыл бұрын

Extraordinary usefull ! We want more more and more !

@jazzguitarlicks 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome channel I will recommend it to my students. Thanks Nick

@krakenlover318 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another fantastic lesson sir. This will really help thanks.

@andrew1753 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these lessons 🙏🏽 very helpful!

@bennryan2 6 жыл бұрын

dude, fantastic videos

@jaylevert2312 6 жыл бұрын

Outstanding conceptual delivery of some age-old, as well as, contemporary musical theories. It is all in your personal tutorial persona. Well done.

@JazzDuets 6 жыл бұрын

cheers!

@magnificentelectromagnetic7417 6 жыл бұрын

loves it, thank you

@FranklinBalmantemusic 6 жыл бұрын

Great job ! thanks

@morphojazz 3 жыл бұрын

Great great great thanks

@patricklage5972 7 жыл бұрын

Very instructive. Thank you

@olivierherment1188 6 жыл бұрын

Encore une fois merci

@blazelarson1427 4 жыл бұрын

This was a really great lesson, country shredders, oh my!

@PhotoFalcinelli 3 жыл бұрын

I love it

@skimanization 7 жыл бұрын

Excellent!!!

@damirthrasyvoulides9923 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for all the information you are sharing mate! Keep up the good work. I wisg you lots of luck in ur life.

@logothescanandeffectmaker2122 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks so much 👍🏻

@mariofloreshernandez4467 3 жыл бұрын

Genial tutorial, thanks a Lot

@vitodonatone846 5 жыл бұрын

VERY GOOD ...GREAT ,GREAT LESSON

@guyvelvet1980 3 жыл бұрын

This is an excellent lesson

@432___htz 6 жыл бұрын

4:20 is the melody from my favorite movie..... Close Encounters of the Third Kind. thank you for your great lessons

@MomLAU 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, i caught that too!

@andynguyen985 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@zaza_danslemetro 7 жыл бұрын

GREAT!!!!!

@jamierogers6600 6 жыл бұрын

Great lessons!

@wellingtonlopesc 3 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏magnific

@rccarsandmusic2641 4 жыл бұрын

I call it the Rag time scale, Key of A mix the A m 7th arpeggio with the F# M 7th arpeggio and you got it, simple that way.

@leopardtiger1022 4 жыл бұрын

I am going crazy with your inspiring video I must try it on my violin....

@zecastello 5 жыл бұрын

Man, this content is awesome! Congratulations! I will keep following.

@thelonious-dx9vi Жыл бұрын

Amen to this. Guitar players especially, I think (being one of them), many of whom transition from rock and natural blues, may tend to think this language just kinda comes along with them. Newsflash: Not. If anything, it's actually country players who have more of a leg up here. Anyway, if you look to keep some blues in your jazz playing (without which, why even bother 😉), it isn't gonna just happen by itself, so definitely work this material.

@alcofribasnasier5089 3 жыл бұрын

Another tasty pizza ! Many thanks. You are the best pedagogue on the whole wide net...

@JazzGuitarScrapbook 6 жыл бұрын

Great vid!

@dannyheijnen1179 Жыл бұрын

Geweldige les!

@beberdos 5 жыл бұрын

Great editing and content, subscribed ! :)

@Samuriele 5 жыл бұрын

Great!

@roberthavard5206 6 жыл бұрын

What a awesome lesson. Thank you! Big like!!!!

@anthonymcalpine1729 5 жыл бұрын

Nick. Love your tutorials, and your playingI thought of another tune with the soul scale. Chucky's in Love. Ricky Lee Jones.. All the best to you and your family. Anthony, bass player from Brighton

@broncojonnes 4 жыл бұрын

too good

@LuckFx 6 жыл бұрын

What a great video, I'm just getting to the point where I can play the scales I've been learning consistently (I'm just an amateur who plays in his spare time), but could not for the life of me get a good melody actually flowing, and I swear that from 3:33 onwards, you opened my eyes. It's exactly what I needed to progress,. or feel like I'm progressing. Thank you very much, I'm definitely subbing! P.S.: also, 4:21, what a close encounter...

@bigbrownsound 6 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! I call it the "Happy Blues" scale. Listen to Rolling Stones piano players Ian Stewart, Chuck Leavell....any blues based rock piano players. (and b5 for extra flavor of course)

@andersonassuncao-muggdosax8014 6 жыл бұрын

Amanzing Help

@avatar90404 6 жыл бұрын

Great concepts. if only I could read music...Concepts alone worth the ride..

@reubenpompei3896 6 жыл бұрын

why this is very usefull

@perfectbeat 6 жыл бұрын

Digital applause. Thumbs up! :-)

@TheYamaduta 5 жыл бұрын

Nice vid ... dude ...

@dannyheijnen1179 Жыл бұрын

Inreed INVALUABLE

@titopassos5223 7 жыл бұрын

Nick, Você é espetacular! Muito bom mesmo. Very, very bood.

@JazzDuets 7 жыл бұрын

thanks so much!!!!

@jonassantos4763 7 жыл бұрын

Que bom que não sou o único brasileiro que acompanha esse canal espetacular!!! Esse canal merece muitos inscritos!!!

@fgsproducer 6 жыл бұрын

Very Gershwin like.

@saxfish 6 жыл бұрын

< MasterFull very cOOl Educator YOU are ! I owe you, Thanks ¡ >

@alexdante 6 жыл бұрын

Great great video! One of the best theory lessons I've ever watched!

@lorenperhid9349 4 жыл бұрын

Muy interesante, pero sería fantástico que pudieras poner subtítulos en español. Gracias.👍

@_left_eye 4 жыл бұрын

Nick.. after having surfed the web for zillions of tutorials on how to improvise I've finally headed for the right place.. The way you gradually take a musician THERE, is simply fantastic! I play bass and guitar, soloists and singers love to play with me cos I can't improvise, so I've developed a consistent way to accompany them. Now, I'll study your videos, if eventually, I'll become good at improvising and they will get rid of me, you will be responsible for that ;-)

@nowitskevin3951 5 жыл бұрын

4:21 nice....

@Lutemann 6 жыл бұрын

Great ideas. Years ago I had trouble soloing over Tuxedo Junction, so I invented this scale: C D Eb E F Gb G A Bb B C I really worked well.

@ProfileP246 4 жыл бұрын

What just the C major scale then?

@neilbarton5235 3 жыл бұрын

Profile p since when are Eb, Gb & Bb in the key of Cmajor?

@Lutemann 3 жыл бұрын

@@neilbarton5235 They are blue notes. Try it.

@daveaustin4538 6 жыл бұрын

these Pentatonix work well through a 2-5-1 progression

@wilsoncosta5822 6 жыл бұрын

Bom.

@sequoyahcisneros8719 5 жыл бұрын

2:55 kinda sounds like in a sentimental mood

@rock2paul 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, great video. I have some questions. Does this scale only work for major triad? Or on 7 chords as well? And does only work if the chord is pedal? Or on any diatonic, in this case F major? Thank you so much. I literally on my way to buy your bundle and doing my research before buying. Thank you again for posting so many great stuff

@zsoltjoanovits5539 5 жыл бұрын

This is very helpful. I wonder, if there is something similar for minor progressions - to simply play the same in parallel key doesn't work. Or am I just not getting something?

@joshcharlat850 6 жыл бұрын

Nick, I subscribed...need I say more? Oh, wait a minute!! I have one editing request. You show a line which you play, and as soon as the sound of your playing it stops, boom it disappears. Because I'm playing tenor and you write out the lines in concert C, and I use my ear better than I read (though my reading is improving), it would be great if you left the line on the screen for about 1 second longer, so I could more easily pause it to study it. One second longer would help out greatly. Believe me. We have to do a lot of pausing because your videos are dense with information. I'm working hard to get these sounds under my fingers. Just learning a lot of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. A fun language.

@JazzDuets 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I hate long videos that are long with lot of yapping! You can always download the pdf! cheers!

@KuitlahuakR 6 жыл бұрын

This ia Advance to me. I play trumpet.

@karolyhorvath7624 6 жыл бұрын

Soul Scale = Major Blues Scale

@andresaxmanbrown 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much 😅

@andresaxmanbrown 3 жыл бұрын

Major Blues Scale + Flat 7th

@AmeeliaK 5 жыл бұрын

Can't find the follow up video with more tones, is it yet to come?

@juscelinomozart7092 4 жыл бұрын

Que pena que não tem em portugues do Brasil! acho que esse videos são maravilhosos para aprender!

@Mauronog1 3 жыл бұрын

Juscelino, você pode configurar para aparecer as legendas em português. Nem sempre será totalmente correta, mas a pronúncia dele em inglês é muito fácil de entender e a configuração assim traduz quase que cem por cento fielmente. Tem um quadrinho no vídeo na parte de baixo à direita que você clica e vai aparecer a legenda em inglês. Depois você vai no outro ao lado que é configurações e escolher o idioma para o qual quer traduzido a fala dele. Espero que consiga. Boa sorte.

@sigmonky 5 жыл бұрын

This particular series is a good example of what music theorist Phillip Tagg discusses in his book “Everyday Tonality”. tagg.org/mmmsp/EverydayTonalityInfo.htm. Can’t wait for the next installation. I’ll be posting a link to this vid and it’s predecessor on a few blues harp groups.