Jazz Blues Etude 8am CT

[00:00:01][music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] All right. Good morning, everyone. Hey, Bill. How's it going? Hope you had a good weekend.

[00:00:58]All right, so at first before we get into the etude, let's go ahead and just get the fingers moving. And a couple things that I like to do is just what I was doing right there. I was picking one little place and just working on some chord tones. So this idea, C triad, and then I'm going to the third of F.

[00:01:25]>> [music] >> Now I'm on the ninth of D [music] flat 13, which we've been working in.

[00:01:37][music] Hey Doug.

[00:01:45][music] [music] [music] All right, let me stop the track for just a second and we'll kind of get going with our lesson. [music] See if I can pull this up.

[00:02:08]>> [music] >> So, uh, good to see you, Vance. Good to see you, Dad. Awesome. I think I got everybody. All right. So, as we're working on this etude, [gasps] um, a couple things we're really going to hit is just this idea of the diminished chord. So, when we get to the four chord of the C blues, it goes to the diminish. So, it's a measure of F [music] and then you have diminished.

[00:02:31]So, you can go up the arpeggio of F sharp. Remember this trick everyone that you go a half step up and now I'm on F sharp diminished [music] and you can arpeggiate that going up going down you can skip things around you can do it like [music] right you can go so many different ways you can do it you can play it as a scale of course we've talked about that but for us let's actually work in this on the etude. I decided to stick with this.

[00:03:09][music] Now, what this is doing is it's going up and there's the diminished scale, which we talked about, right? F# sharp, Gsharp, A, B, C. So, there's your diminished scale, but we're going to go approach it here. And then we go into arpeggio mode. And when we get up to the top, we're going to do octave. So, A up to G.

[00:03:33]Okay. So, let's actually work on that.

[00:03:35]And then once you get this sound in your head of the diminished scale o over that four chord, the sharp four, then you could just turn it around any way you want and you'll hear the sound. Okay? So, and it doesn't mean that you have to go straight up the scale and do it.

[00:03:55]Sometimes you want to skip notes. As I mentioned, you could go >> [music] >> And same thing on on A. It becomes the a B flat diminish chord. Awesome. All right, let's uh turn on the track and just get those fingers moving again.

[00:04:14]Right now, we're just identifying chord tones. So, you could do yard work blues [music] or something close to that.

[00:04:23][music] Now, here comes that diminished.

[00:04:27]And I'm going to hit it right here. So we go. [music] [music] Now that time I did the G [music] uh the diminish for the G, which is a flat. Uh I need to say this. Sorry. I don't want to be confusing. Whenever we get to an a dominant chord like F7, C7, uh G7, you can go a half step up of whatever that chord is and play a diminished arpeggio.

[00:05:00]If you understand this, put got it in the chat. So for C, technically you could go up to C [music] sharp and play a C sharp diminished. For F, you can go up a half step, which is what we're kind of focusing on here, play F sharp diminished. And for G, you could play a G, I mean an A flat diminished. So all it does is gives you that flat N sound [music] go by going up a half step. And there are a lot of really cool things you can do with that. All right. Uh, very nice.

[00:05:32]That's smooth as butter. Vance says it's smooth as butter. Okay. So let's just go ahead and dig into this. One, two, three, and [music] >> [music] >> Now since we have everybody on I need you guys to help with which version we are going to use for the final version of this etude. One of them has the busy.

[00:06:11]So this is the alt four. But let me go back. And these are in the member folder everyone just so everybody understands.

[00:06:18]I think most of you are are already subscribed to the folder if you're a member of the YouTube channel. So watch this.

[00:06:26]Um here's the version passing through number three. And I'm curious to know what Vance and others think about this.

[00:06:33]This one doesn't stop and hold here. It goes back to >> [music] >> and it adds the eighth notes in the middle there. Let's turn on the track and let's let's go go through that one.

[00:06:47]I like them both, but you guys are going to have to let me know which which one we decide on. Two, one, two, and three and [music] [music] >> [music] >> Hey Vicki. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Now watch what I can do here.

[00:08:04][music] So, just like going from yard work into this, just passing through a tude. When you get to the four chord, I go [music] uh let me see something really quickly.

[00:08:27]Um, [music] so I'm just going to demonstrate the difference between those two one. The first etude that we went over has this sorry uh on the diminished [music] and then it holds that G.

[00:08:56]The second one is this.

[00:08:59]Oh, sorry. Uh, I'm not playing it right. One and two.

[00:09:07]It adds the eighth notes.

[00:09:11]Okay. So, here's the other one.

[00:09:26]It's [laughter] kind of a subtle subtle thing just passing through your yard.

[00:09:33]Yeah. There's an old movie that uh that is really funny. Has anybody seen This is an old movie, but The Golden Child where Eddie Murphy goes into the backyards the backyard of those people's house.

[00:09:48]All right, let's turn this on and do this again.

[00:09:53]Two, a one, two, and three. And [music] [music] I got to fix that backing track.

[00:10:10][music] What do you guys think? [music] The golden child, of course.

[00:10:24]That's such a funny thing.

[00:10:27]Bill was actually in that movie. [gasps] Hey, we do have we do have famous people that have been in movies before at IM Music Academy.

[00:10:38]Just saying.

[00:10:40]All right, that's for another conversation, though.

[00:10:44]Um, we had we had a member in the Jewel of the Nile. One, two, three.

[00:10:52][music] [music] [music] All right. So, Vance and Bill and anybody else interested, notice that when we get to the D minor, we have a ton of options. We can do this.

[00:11:25]We can do what's written, which I kind of like because it gets us playing the scale on the down beat. It's not too scalarly, if that's a word.

[00:11:36][music] and it get but it gets to here and it has your altered. Now remember the difference between a diminished scale and an altered scale is one note. You have diminished scale for four notes, half step, whole step, half step, whole step, and then it's whole step, whole step, whole step. And that's a really neat sound. So when I come up here and play this over a G7, it [music] sounds really cool, really nice to me.

[00:12:06]And if you like that, put an in the chat for nice.

[00:12:10]I like that sound. And something really awesomely related to that is notice this just an E flat scale. E flat major scale. The first four five notes. 1 2 3 4 5. So I can do D minor. And I go.

[00:12:31]Okay. Let me uh let's let's actually go to a different track. Let's do 110 and see if you guys can let me know if you like the space or the eighth note version as the regular version. Let's do this again.

[00:12:46][music] [music] See there's no break there.

[00:13:09]Now, this time I'll do it with the spa.

[00:13:10]Yeah. Okay. Vance likes the space. So, we'll leave the Well, you see, I want other people to weigh in on in on it as well. Here we go. Four, [music] two, and three.

[00:13:32]>> [music] >> Okay. So, let's say it's a Monday morning and it's time to to practice. Of course, we have a uh we have an etude on that. But we've talked about this idea of the root and the fifth. I'm sorry, the the fifth and the six as it starts off your blues. And these kind of five six root of the scale are great ways to get your groove going for the week or just like Vance says less is more. It's true. Sometimes you want to be busy and even in the etude sometimes we want to be busy because we're working the fingers. But sometimes we just want [music] [music] >> [music] >> Let's do that again.

[00:14:35][music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> And even as you're being simple in your improvisation, notice that when it goes to the F sharp and you want to experiment with that, just put a few diminished notes when it gets to that F sharp. You don't have to play, but it's not a bad idea to play that as an a great exercise on getting familiar with that diminish scale. So, [music] [music] [music] let's do that again. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Vance.

[00:17:13]>> [music] [music] [music] >> All >> [music] [music] >> right, let's talk about a couple of uh interesting things. Hey, Hugh, good morning.

[00:17:58]Awesome.

[00:18:00]So, what I was intending on today's lesson was to really go over the etude and the diminish part, which we've been doing, but I think this is kind of involving to this kind of a less is more kind of important thing here. I have this etude with a bunch of notes in it.

[00:18:17]But I also love for you guys to to enjoy practicing and and and really just enjoying playing the blues, right? Or jazz or whatever it is you want to play.

[00:18:27]You want to build some confidence. So, I would say this is not a bad place to start. And even when I went here and I would did something I don't even remember what I did, but at one point I was kind of hinting around to your your flat 7, right, of F. And that turns right into that diminished, right? So, even when I'm here and I'm I'm doing like um [music] once I hit to that F sharp, I can do anything diminish related. And that's why it kind of works over the blues scale. So if I'm here and I go [music] so when I go to F I go [music] I could do anything there related to F sharp diminish scale right that's kind of a nice to to know that we can do that and that's why I wrote out this idea All right.

[00:19:31][music] >> [music] >> Okay, let's um let's add a blues lick into that. If we take this idea, the one we've been working on lately, or even this, and you go to minor there, that's not a bad way to add to a simple improv, is it?

[00:20:12]Two and three again.

[00:20:17][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Well, here's your diminished [music] Here [music] we go.

[00:21:12][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> So, I don't even know where my pedal is.

[00:21:40]But what was fun about that is uh this fun trick you can do is if you're if you're playing your C blues and you're doing whatever you want to do instead of playing just C and I go right I can go G minor or G minor 11 or any kind of G minor and it creates this.

[00:22:02]There's my pedal.

[00:22:06][music] Isn't that nice? Everyone, what's up, design studio?

[00:22:18]That That's kind of a shock to the system when you do that and a very nice welcome thing.

[00:22:24]I'm showing we have one like on today's stream, [music] even D minor.

[00:22:34][music] Let's add that blues lick. Here we go.

[00:22:39]>> [music] [music] >> Now it turns to minor.

[00:22:57][music] >> [music] [music] >> See that diminish goes in there very nicely.

[00:23:23][music] All right, let's talk about what I just did right there. Memphis ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch chime in as always. When when we're down on likes, you can expect that Memphis is going to join in. Good to see you, Memphis.

[00:23:39]Everybody say hey to Memphis.

[00:23:43]So, did you guys see how easy and simple it was to set up the F# diminish that we've been talking about today? I go here and I give you a C6 lick and then it turns to an [music] F. That's the fifth of F. And when I get to this F, I can go Or I could go. [music] So I could turn it into diminish notes.

[00:24:08]Or I can go back to blues scale notes.

[00:24:11]And then I want to arrive at something that really feels good.

[00:24:19]Okay. So then we have this idea of um that that I do not want to miss telling you guys. So you remember how we talked about the five chord meaning yes that's diminished and that's really important but also the difference between the diminished and the altered is this.

[00:24:41][music] Okay this idea of [music] instead of just this we have diminished whole tone whole tone whole tone whole tone. So a diminished whole tone is made up is also called an altered scale is also called a superloan scale. But that's way too much to think about on a Monday. But all you need to know at this point is this idea comes right out of the uh the diminished scale. Sorry, the altered scale.

[00:25:14]Now notice that he even when I was here I went um I did something like this.

[00:25:22]which that's not a part of the alter scale, but this I go [music] even your your diminish notes [music] work really nice over that G7, right?

[00:25:35]And even like that's the flat 13.

[00:25:41][music] So you can get away with all of those notes over that. Okay, let's turn on the track again. And we have we're going we have about 11 minutes left.

[00:25:49][music] Here's our diminished. [music] [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> Uh, what do you guys do you guys like adding the um the G minor over the C or does that seem too out there?

[00:26:36]Let me know in the chat while I get a nice welcomed drink of coffee. Somebody asked about music camp. Was this the music camp song? No, but music camp starts tomorrow and we have a record amount of kids that are going to be learning about music.

[00:26:56]That was cool. I like the 13th dimension. Yes, Vance. So, uh, a couple of things that I was doing today to kind of reinforce the simplicity of things.

[00:27:07]If you guys love Oscar Peterson like I do, then you know that there are so many things we can learn from Oscar Peterson.

[00:27:14]It's endless. But this idea of if you're in the key of C, Oscar would do this all the time [music] where he's doing doing the fifth as a as a pedal note, right? So even if you're playing a C blues, it's not a bad idea to practice playing that. [music] like you listen to his recordings a lot, even his solo piano stuff, he's doing this, [music] just hitting that five chord of whatever key he's in. That's a really fun tip.

[00:27:47]And so all I was doing was going getting to the end of the blues, you know, and and just just having fun with that because it does change it up a bit when you do that.

[00:28:02]Put a Y in the chat if you agree with how nice that is.

[00:28:07]So, we're on the [music] See, I did at the last part.

[00:28:21][music] Two and three and boom.

[00:28:26]Yeah. Let me show you guys what I just did there. I think this might be in one of Vance's etudes that um here's a really nice tip everybody. We have 10 people watching.

[00:28:38]Everybody lock in. Okay, everybody put an L in the chat. I'm going to show you some amazing tips right here.

[00:28:46]Is that if I'm going G minor, I'm going to go 4 32.

[00:28:54]Do you see how nice that is? Bill Vance to lead Vicki to lead you to G minor and I go 432 and Memphis 432.

[00:29:07]So I'm outlining this G minor 11 and then I go to the third of C. [music] But this Yeah, that's in his etude.

[00:29:16]This idea of Now why is that so nice? Because it's part of Vance's etude. Yes, we know that. But also it's the minor third of G. So getting to the minor third starting at the 11th is a really nice tip. Now watch this. 11 5 flat 7. And here's where the magic happens.

[00:29:37]It goes to the flat 9 of C, which is what we have been talking about is whenever you're on a dominant chord, in this case it's C. Go up a half step. And these notes come from the diminish scale to give you that flat n of C. Watch this. [music] And now watch this.

[00:29:57]Vance says he would not uh he would blush, but he's not in the least a bit embarrassed. I'm so shocked, Vance. So, watch this.

[00:30:08]Hey, uh a shout out really quickly. We have since we have 12 people watching.

[00:30:11]Uh and I don't know if dad's still in the chat, but dad, I'm trying to get with Vance and uh I hope I owe Vance a lesson this week because of your generosity, Dad. So, make sure Vance you reply to my message. Maybe you already have Vance and I just did didn't see it, but I think I emailed you a couple times. We got to get your lesson in this week.

[00:30:38]I guess I guess uh Bill doesn't like his etude. You don't like diligence?

[00:30:47]Go back to this thing really quickly here. This idea of Hey guys, this is gold right now.

[00:30:54]Anybody watching out there, like take any if if I'm playing uh in any key and I want to hit it, it it gets me to the flat N of whatever I'm on, right? Any any key. And I go right here, I go G minor and I go 4 3 2 flat N. And it gets me to the third [music] flat N.

[00:31:30][music] Isn't that a nice idea? So, so just get the G minor for now.

[00:31:40]Let's put it in the Let's put it in the actual playing. [music] All right. Bill says he loves his etude.

[00:31:47]We should probably play due diligence [music] before this lesson is up. 1 6 [music] two. We have this. Everybody pay attention.

[00:31:58][music] Isn't that nice?

[00:32:08][music] >> [music] >> Yeah. So, even that right there, I'm on I'm on D minor. And I could think just by playing that G, I'm on D minor 11.

[00:32:27]And here I can go.

[00:32:29][music] There's that altered sound that we've been working on. And then I want to resolve on something that sounds kind of tonal. Uh, dad says, "Make sure he uses the metronome." [laughter] Yeah, my dad is guilty. He's a great site reader. T-Man can read anything you put in front of him, he's going to play it through. And, uh, and we always joke about at his house, uh, he's cheating on IM Music Academy with a bunch of books he got gets from the library. But uh like tons of really cool sheet music.

[00:33:04]But it's like when you have windows like I do on my computer, that's the way his piano looks. It's book after book and you have to peel away the layers. But then when I give him it's time for his lesson, he all he does is turns on the metronome. I said, "We got to turn on the metronome and do this." So he'll turn it on, but he doesn't listen to it.

[00:33:22][laughter] [gasps] All right. Doug uh Doug says, "Doug's speed police attitude." Yeah, maybe we do. So, the Speed Police A2 could be something like this, Doug. We might do it. Here we go.

[00:33:38][music] [music] How about that, Doug?

[00:33:55]All >> [music] [music] [music] >> right. This is Doug's etude.

[00:34:16][music] >> [music] >> Now, what we're going to do is add this G minor idea.

[00:34:31][music] [music] Now, I could go diminish two and three. But that's probably that'll probably get a siren.

[00:34:48]Here [music] [music] we go. G minor.

[00:35:04][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> All right. So, Doug, I'll write that out for you.

[00:35:39]After all the all the sirens, I just don't know if we're going to even add the G minor because that might be an infringe infringing on the Vance etude.

[00:35:50][music] [music] [music] All right. Now, let's wrap this lesson up by just talking about how you're going to practice some of these things. This etude teaches a bunch of different things, right? Different ways to uh use passing tones, diminish scale, [music] and this is in the membership folder.

[00:36:25]And I think that all of you are subscribed to it. I think we're mostly members this morning. But let me just put this in here just to make sure.

[00:36:33]Copy.

[00:36:37]Uh, let's see.

[00:36:44]Vance says, "I wasn't going to say that, but [laughter] you can't infringe on the rights of Vance's etude, but I do want you to think about that."

[00:36:56]All right, I pinned this. This is for members. Just click on the folder, and right now we have three different versions in there. and you have uh three backing tracks at different speeds.

[00:37:07]Really important to mess around with that. Also, um you guys know that the membership area is nice and full. Right now, we have 30 members, which I'm excited about, but five of those I think were gifted by me or at least five and maybe a couple of you as well. So, we're hoping that people will enjoy this. But here's the way we're going to wrap this lesson up is that notice the simplicity of Doug's blues that I now have to write out.

[00:37:36]Put it with something else. This idea of a simple blues lick that we've been working on from another etude, right? Or you could put it with yard work blues.

[00:37:46]And the idea is wear something out like whatever you're working on, make it be just practice it over and over and kind of get it into your playing. So even though we're doing this simple blues idea for Doug now, occasionally I want to do that or occasionally I want to go over the F7 idea of that. So any one idea is going to sound great as you're working over all this stuff or working through all this stuff. Let me um let me check the track and let me check make sure the music is good to go.

[00:38:18]So we have [music] [music] [music] [music] Watch this.

[00:38:55][music] [music] [music] All >> [music] [music] [music] >> right.

[00:39:37]Have you enjoyed this lesson today?

[00:39:38]today. Just let me know in the chat.

[00:40:00]Take out take us out with some due diligence. All right. Yeah, let's pull up due diligence.

[00:40:09]Do v diligence. All right, let's look at due diligence.

[00:40:31][music] Hey, that that fits right along with the idea of simplicity, doesn't it?

[00:40:36]>> [music] >> What do you think?

[00:40:47]Hey, why don't we do this? If I get enough likes in the chat, I'm putting this in the membership area right now.

[00:40:56]Let's see.

[00:40:59]I like this one because it is simple.

[00:41:04][music] even on your G minor.

[00:41:10]What do we end up here? Uh [music] oh, we did that.

[00:41:23][music] Yes. If we get a few likes in the chat, I'll put it in the membership in this same folder right now. The July folder.

[00:41:40]Two. Oh, one, two, three, four. [music] [music] Flat [music] 13.

[00:42:11][music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [laughter] >> All right. Hey, I have to say that uh that due diligence works really well with Doug's Future Blues. Maybe that's what it's called. Doug's future blues, doesn't it? You have this idea of And then you have due diligence, which to me that's a really nice idea of surrounding the major third.

[00:43:41][music] And what what Vance says, it's deceptively simp. I love what Vance is the is kind of like the chat G TBT as well of uh he's more of the claude of IM Academy. It's deceptive deceptively simple with a killer ending. Yes. And what's really nice about the end of due diligence is this [music] is everything is explained even in this chromatic descent. It's all chord tones, right? Which is really nice. Uh, Doug yesterday, Doug today, Doug tomorrow.

[00:44:16]That's too long of a title.

[00:44:23][snorts] Yeah, you have one minute to give me a name for Doug's Future Blues. Or maybe it's called Doug's Future Blues. Doug yesterday, Doug today, Dougar is too long. Nobody wants due diligence in the in this folder.

[00:44:40]My guess is I already have it in the YouTube membership. Am I right?

[00:44:49]Just to be safe, we're going to put it in there.

[00:44:53]Doence.

[00:45:08]Somebody confirm if it's already in there.

[00:45:14]Dig tomorrow, Doug yesterday. [laughter] Gosh, how about Dig Doug today?

[00:45:28]Here's what I want want to leave you guys with on this. We still have 13 people watching, which you have to really love me to still be watching to my um my lessons that keep seem to go go and go. Watch this. You have this simple idea from Doug's blues and these simple blues licks that we're putting in. Wear these out. Like make it your own by just the way you play it, the way you change up the rhythm. And then this notice that you can go so many places here. You can go yard work blues. You can go Ray Charles. You can just highlight the arpeggios, right? You can do that. But also the simplicity of the first four notes of the A blues scale, right?

[00:46:14]Uh Van says it's already in there. It's already in the membership area. [music] Yeah, Doug's SP Blues of Speed Police.

[00:46:28]Yeah, I think it needs to be too more direct than that though, Doug, because um that that means I'd have to explain it, unlike due diligence.

[00:46:42]Oh gosh, that's good. Good way of thinking about it. So, any of my members, if you think of a good name for Doug's Future Blues, this one that goes [music] I'm going to write it out.

[00:46:56]And then remember to take one of your simple blues ideas along the way.

[00:46:59]There's so many things that you can unlock right here. You can go uh you can go here.

[00:47:09]You can go here.

[00:47:11]Because remember that even when I go to the F chord and I'm on the doing the first five notes of the C blues scale, even this turns to to diminished.

[00:47:22][music] >> [music] >> H how how did we get to Doug's blues and not even do the etude from today? Crazy.

[00:47:40]All right, you have one minute to say goodbye.

[00:47:45][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> the Future tense of Doug.

[00:48:21][music] The future tense of Doug.

[00:48:31]What about Doug is two tents.

[00:48:34][music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Hey, hey, [music] hey.

[00:49:21]>> [music] >> see you guys.

[00:49:30][music] I was just trying to get some speed police and like what are you doing before I left? All right, Vance, good to see you. Dad, good to see you. Hugh, good to see you. Vicki, Doug, Bill, due diligence is in the house. Uh, Dad Vicki. Oh, um, also somebody else lived in there.

[00:49:52]Let's see.

[00:49:56]Bill.

[00:50:00]See, shout out to Design Studio Memphis. Memphis.

[00:50:12]All right, guys. Have a great day. See you in the next one.