The 'Blues' Arpeggio - exercises + tutorial

For the student of improvisation the minor / major 3rd sound dichotomy is essential to know and love as it is arguably the most fundamental sound of Jazz and Blues.
There is no arpeggio that is taught academically that contains both Major + Minor, that is until now.
The BLUES ARPEGGIO offers a solution to this massive hole in music education.
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[@lindhmusic]

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

[@julianjohnson7957]

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

[@4menshenin]

Pure gold, thanks for your work!

[@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?

[@paoloalbano4690]

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

[@OfficerGarlic]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@msdonnalouable]

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

[@hjc5523]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing!

[@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

[@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!

[@pascaletienne7734]

Great, thanks Nick !

[@andresaxmanbrown]

Seriously dig this. Fantastic

[@tioliak]

What a lovely soprano sound! 💛

[@mrhidetf2]

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

[@doudoudbidou]

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

[@alexojohndlaborgona3653]

Usted sabe mucho mr. Nick!. Saludos!.

[@JerroldKavanagh]

Great channel - thank you.

[@carlosneto4072]

Que Mestre grande aula congratulações

[@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.

[@011001er]

This should be an equally mandatory educational starting point

[@trumpsahead]

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

[@hori59]

thank you！love your video

[@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.

[@brianna_crawl]

So amazing 😍

[@ivolime]

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

[@izzylazy2902]

superb!

[@bassoelettrico]

Great, thanks 😍

[@composer7325]

Excellent thank you .Great video.

[@JazzDuets]

thanks Peter!

[@hakeemfayomi7776]

Very useful Information

[@devinwebb0]

Never disappoint

[@rafaelortsespadero4870]

Muchas Gracias !

[@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.

[@obiem9319]

Very nice.

[@vincental3038]

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

[@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🤞🏻

[@TONIKOBLER]

hey , tudo bem , legal o video , thanks

[@h0tsex0r]

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

[@klisher]

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

[@gabrielarcanjo9084]

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

[@saxfish]

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

[@Tabu11211]

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

[@FacundoTroitero]

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

[@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.

[@antonstjarnbrandt1003]

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

[@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!!)

[@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.

[@dannyprasetya2496]

Light bulb!! Thanks

[@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?

[@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

[@boppincloud2125]

Here's Cannonball Adderley Quintet doing his tune Inside Straight which leans very heavily on a Major to Minor chord vamp. Turn up the volume! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn_GppJ9jNWfm9k

[@juwonnnnn]

👍

[@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.

[@jg0r]

Is that you playing soprano??

[@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

[@harrisfrankou2368]

Yesterday is in F Major..saddest opening ever.

[@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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[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

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

[@davewray9909]

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

[@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

[@thomasschneider1785]

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

[@andyokus5735]

Man you need to practice more!

[@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.

[@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!