00:52 Blues Scale & Chords 01:33 3 Jazz Scales & Chords 02:02 C Dominant Diminished 03:41 F Dominant Diminished 04:38 G Dominant Diminished 07:58 Jazzy-Blues Scale Exercise 10:39 Play with backing track - 100bpm 11:57 Play with backing track - 70bpm 12:47 Conclusion
Jonny does not mention the really good news that when you master these three shapes you actually have 24 scales under your fingers! So C Dom dim is same as Eb, F#, and A Dom dim. So these 3 become 12, going up half whole half whole... If you start and end the C shape one half step up you are playing a C# diminished scale. These go whole half whole half... So 3 shapes yield 24 scales. I usually see the first played over dominant chords and the second over diminished chords. Finally, they are very easy to visualize. C shape is an inverted U white to white, and a U black to black. F is two lower black keys of 3 and adjacent lower black, else white. G is 2 upper of 3 black keys and adjacent higher black key, else white.. Three easy shapes you can learn in an afternoon, 24 amazing scales you will use all your life.
How often do you break fingering when improv-ing? I'm mostly self taught and when I'm jamming I don't really think of fingering at all and it changes all the time. Is that bad practice?
Sounds good! Just seeing what notes to “ lean on “ to make the scale sound good . At a glance , playing a Gm9 arpeggio (on the C7 chord ) but starting with the D note is very tuneful. Will keep playing to see what happens thanks am very bored of blues scale ! *** Haha edit the D isn’t in that scale but sounds good!
00:52 Blues Scale & Chords
01:33 3 Jazz Scales & Chords
02:02 C Dominant Diminished
03:41 F Dominant Diminished
04:38 G Dominant Diminished
07:58 Jazzy-Blues Scale Exercise
10:39 Play with backing track - 100bpm
11:57 Play with backing track - 70bpm
12:47 Conclusion
merci Jonny. I'll be taking baby steps, but this is really valuable.
The best teacher !👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I lay my right forearm on the white keys and left on the black keys and that makes it really colorful
Thanks Jonny
Thanks, Jonny! These videos are really cool! Exactly what I was looking for. (from Brazil)
Great presentation
thank you! Feel like i've just levelled up my piano :)
Nice job Jonny. I’m gonna need to do your lessons full time in order to grasp them fully. So much stuff to catch up with, so many distractions...
Yey, exactly what I needed!
Yes this dude is good at putting out just the right stuff at the right time!
Jonny does not mention the really good news that when you master these three shapes you actually have 24 scales under your fingers! So C Dom dim is same as Eb, F#, and A Dom dim. So these 3 become 12, going up half whole half whole... If you start and end the C shape one half step up you are playing a C# diminished scale. These go whole half whole half... So 3 shapes yield 24 scales. I usually see the first played over dominant chords and the second over diminished chords. Finally, they are very easy to visualize. C shape is an inverted U white to white, and a U black to black. F is two lower black keys of 3 and adjacent lower black, else white. G is 2 upper of 3 black keys and adjacent higher black key, else white.. Three easy shapes you can learn in an afternoon, 24 amazing scales you will use all your life.
Is that a yamaha your playing? Also LOVE all your lessons!
How often do you break fingering when improv-ing? I'm mostly self taught and when I'm jamming I don't really think of fingering at all and it changes all the time. Is that bad practice?
Sounds good! Just seeing what notes to “ lean on “ to make the scale sound good . At a glance , playing a Gm9 arpeggio (on the C7 chord ) but starting with the D note is very tuneful. Will keep playing to see what happens thanks am very bored of blues scale ! *** Haha edit the D isn’t in that scale but sounds good!
FC From Thailand
Ok but how do you play with all that passion 😭
You can’t really play C7 with a 9th in your left hand voicing when the diminished scale has b9 and #9 in it, play the #9th with your left hand
How Many Jazz Scales Are There?
I'm not very familiar with it but this kinda sounds like the octatonic scale.