The 'Blues' Arpeggio - exercises + tutorial

[@robertzullo8707]

What a lesson!!! It's like instant dixieland music. Just a great concept that when explained, and even more importantly when played, makes perfect sense. Thanks again for sharing this jewel. .

[@billymakesmusic]

Using the cycle of 4ths with this concept is reminiscent of the New Orleans Dixieland sound. Very cool to understand this concept that I have given much thought to but never explored. You just laid it out perfectly! Many Thanks!

[@JazzDuets]

It is right?

[@harmonicawithjp9100]

Dear mister « JAZZ DUETS » ... As a self learner ... (I ((try to)) play harmonica by the way) : When « watching /listening » your videos ... I admit it : first time.. I dont understand (at all) all, second time is better, third time is (a little bit) more clear ! Well... I spend hours trying !!! Thank you very much for charing your knowlegde and experiments ! Hello from France ! JP

[@dkwvt13]

I have been using this chromatic step for years as a cheat between major minor and seventh chords. This is a great build out, I never considered putting it "to paper". You have elevated me from a hacker to a wizard...! 😎. Thank You!

[@julianjohnson7957]

Definitely going to learn this in all keys! Man, I swear each video of yours gets better and better!!!

[@lindhmusic]

This channel is pure gold! Thank you so much for all the hours of inspiration and fun.

[@songsabai3794]

Throw in the minor 7th and we have the "Hendrix Pentatonic"...which I'm still working on....thanks for the revisit/update of your 'Blues' Arpeggio...Great Stuff!! So happy to support - Cheers!

[@tioliak]

What a lovely soprano sound! 💛

[@4menshenin]

Pure gold, thanks for your work!

[@WhiteOakAmps]

To me, this one video, (and I was brought here by going backwards following the link from the soul scale videos), especially the "obvious" open voiced blues arpeggio, makes the segue for me as a player to triad pairs for more comprehensible. Also, the major 3rd/minor 3rd movement relates to Nick's orchestral videos, like the one on Chopin and other romantics. This cadence is so subtle, but all pervasive. Thanks so much Mr. Homes!

[@ivolime]

man, i really enjoy your playing. do you have a band or something? id love to hear you improvising

[@011001er]

This should be an equally mandatory educational starting point

[@msdonnalouable]

Wow! How utterly cool I feel playing this! Thank you !

[@paoloalbano4690]

Great video ! Thanks a lot for sharing such simple but precious ideas!

[@trumpsahead]

Wow! Music theory doesn't get any clearer than this. Thank you very much for this gem of a lesson; will practice diligently.

[@OfficerGarlic]

This is great stuff, and similar to the way I'm already teaching my students to improvise. Thanks!

[@markmcmyn8967]

New orleans slow blues (louis armstrong) is in a class by itself. One of the greatest blues sounds! Great arpeggio for new orleans music.

[@hakeemfayomi7776]

Very useful Information

[@gabrielarcanjo9084]

Cadê os BRS??? Tamo aqui, esse canal é bom demais👏

[@andresaxmanbrown]

Seriously dig this. Fantastic

[@mrhidetf2]

I wish i had you as a music teacher nearby, but these videos are a great substitution

[@h0tsex0r]

I was surprised at the cool flavor of C to F7 and back.

[@robertskolimowski7049]

Sounds really awesome👏, two things though a) I don't keep up music knowledge wise, b) I wish it was presented for the guitar (tabs and stuff) Keep up the great work anyway🤞🏻

[@F20ization]

I love this video turorial.about blues.It is helpful.I am gonna making practise and i beleive it will help me to improve my slills about blues.

[@calcal5135]

Hi Nick I use a blues “arpeggio” that is a bit different. As an example in C I ascend C, Eb, E, G, C and descend C, G, Eb, D, C. It sounds great over C dom, C maj 7, Am7 harmonies.

[@joelpierson2628]

I appreciate the line "it might take your fingers places they may otherwise have gone" That is the value of doing etudes. Playing the easy quarter note examples @4:24, I found the Eb to low C a little weak and the F chord line not hard, just a little out of my realm of movements. I'm only in my third year on Saxophone so, I'm finding these things often.

[@alexojohndlaborgona3653]

Usted sabe mucho mr. Nick!. Saludos!.

[@saxfish]

< This scale should be named; " The JazzDuetScale" >

[@vincental3038]

Just purchased ...to play It on Guitar...for study and in the future to improvise better...i hope

[@pascaletienne7734]

Great, thanks Nick !

[@hjc5523]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing!

[@carlosneto4072]

Que Mestre grande aula congratulações

[@FacundoTroitero]

Great video. Though I'd argue the PDF costs the price of 10 cups of coffee

[@JerroldKavanagh]

Great channel - thank you.

[@doudoudbidou]

I always love your videos ! thank you for all these ideas. un abrazo

[@izzylazy2902]

superb!

[@antonstjarnbrandt1003]

The major pentatonic + b3 / "major blues scale" / "gospel scale" without the 6th :)

[@devinwebb0]

Never disappoint

[@klisher]

you might also throw in a b5 (flat 5) to add that blue note.

[@composer7325]

Excellent thank you .Great video.

[@JazzDuets]

thanks Peter!

[@obiem9319]

Very nice.

[@hori59]

thank you！love your video

[@Tabu11211]

Is there a way I can get a complete volume of all of your practice exercises and one book?

[@andyokus5735]

Nick I want to turn you on to an album that taught me how to improvise. " The Turning Point " by John Mayall. The sax playing of Johnny Almond is incredible. I have never heard anything as inspired and emotional . If you aren't hip to it you really should check it out. Thanks for the channel.

[@rafaelortsespadero4870]

Muchas Gracias !

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

What's the best way for fingering on the piano for this? Do you use the 3rd finger for both the b3 and the 3? Or is it best to use the 2nd for the b3 and the 3rd for the 3?

[@TONIKOBLER]

hey , tudo bem , legal o video , thanks

[@bassoelettrico]

Great, thanks 😍

[@leonardvanbiljouw5330]

In African traditional music, on traits of which blues and jazz are built, there is no major or minor interval and no leading tone. There are even cultures where an equidistant pentatonic scale exists (see Gerhard Kubik: Theory of African Music) So, our western system is not the only system and can't be applied to blues. Blues artists, though, had to translate their (subconscious) hereditary to western instruments. Exactly in the way as Nick described it. (the addition of V7 (G7 in C) came later, as an adaptation to western sounds. Music unites!!)

[@dannyprasetya2496]

Light bulb!! Thanks

[@boppincloud2125]

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[@MouladaGenius]

This is really nice thank you ! Just a question : why you didn't include the 7th in this arppegio ?

[@JazzDuets]

because I wanted to show what can de done with just 3 notes before going on to the 7th and other juicy notes! cheeers

[@josephfelice601]

cool. I realize it would be a lot harder to conceive w/o rests, but I would have not skipped out on 1/8ths all the way through each bar.

[@harrisfrankou2368]

Yesterday is in F Major..saddest opening ever.

[@calcal5135]

Looks like a bunch of comments got nuked. Why?

[@JazzDuets]

this is a new upload. The other one had an error! And that will not do

[@jg0r]

Is that you playing soprano??

[@jazway27]

Arpeggio(s)??

[@giotheproducer2476]

these licks probably came from Ragtime and influenced early jazz and blues

[@JazzDuets]

they may have come from martians! you never know!

[@giotheproducer2476]

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[@juwonnnnn]

👍

[@palinaurus]

Utterly confused! Just starting out on the ABRSM jazz grade 5 saxophone after going through the grade 4 and 5 classical exams. Surely the blues scale has six notes. 1,b3,3,4,5,b7 but none of these exercises use the 4th or flattened 7th

[@JazzDuets]

this is the Blues Arpeggio NOT scale, that like most colourful sounds is not found in the ABRSM system

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

Some jockes tells that the missing link is the truck driver 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@davewray9909]

'Just TOO limiting...' (Sorry, Mum was an english teacher.)

[@vvblues]

I wonder if Robert Johnson used the Blues Arpeggio when he was singing about real pain and suffering and playing rent parties for food?

[@JazzDuets]

I am sure he probably did, inadvertently, just as for instance my little girl can speak and understand English perfectly without being able to write it as I have taught her solely by speaking to her ( she has not yet studied grammar as she speaks Spanish here in Argentina) . As an adult it was impossible for me to learn spanish that 'natural' way aurally, I needed the theory and to try to understand verbs etc. I believe learning music is very similar unless you are a genius.

[@thomasschneider1785]

Sorry you are way over my head. Remember I only been playing for 4 years

[@andyokus5735]

Man you need to practice more!

[@wyndhl9465]

I adore this emotionally and spiritually - the Arpeg Blues, eh! Now, I am trying to apply the concept without appearing to be practising exercises during my improvisation. Thanks, Nick!