Chord "cheats"?

[rotcod]

Do any of you keyboard players have a good site for learning new left hand blues/jazz chords?

 

Or, just kind of "intermediate" pattern stuff?

 

I'd appreciate an email (or a response here), if you know of such a place.

 

Thanks!

 

 

rzzaj@attbi.com

[KikkyMonk]

I don't know anything about keyboards but this *might*

 

helphttp://looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/

 

I dunno

 

Dave

[rotcod]

Well, now... THAT did th' trick! Thanks, Dave!

[Byrdman]

Originally posted by rotcod:

Well, now... THAT did th' trick! Thanks, Dave!

 

A useful site - sort of an online keyboard Grimoire.

 

I notice it falls into the common error of failing to notice that there is a major and a minor blues scale - it simply gives the minor blues scale as "the" blues scale.

[Jojje]

Hey, what´s this about a MAJOR bluesscale???. Never heard of it but I´ve propably played it...please explain..

[Jojje]

Or are you referring to a pentatonic scale? You know: C D E G A in the key of C?

[Jojje]

Ooops! Sorry forgot this message for rotcod:

 

http://www.jazzbooks.com/jazzhandbook/Default.htm

 

lots of words of wisdom there für ze aspiring und begleibte jazz student.

 

viel spass

[graypencil]

Rotcod:

 

You also might wanna check out:

 

JAZZ THEORY

JAZZ PIANO

 

both by Mark Levine .. lotta info in there

 

BTW: I always thought the "all purpose blues scale " was:

 

( in a C mode )

 

C Eb F F# G Bb C .. with maybe an occasional E natural thrown in

[rotcod]

Jojje,

 

THANKS for that link... there's a LOT of good info in there... some of it will help me, no doubt!

[Byrdman]

Originally posted by Jojje:

Hey, what´s this about a MAJOR bluesscale???. Never heard of it but I´ve propably played it...please explain..

 

So, in the key of C the minor blues scale is

 

C (E flat) F (G flat) G (B flat) C

 

Now just like the regular minor to major transformation play the same notes starting a minor third higher.

 

(E flat) F (G flat) G (B flat) C (E flat)

 

That's the major blues scale of E flat.

 

Transpose back down to C and you get:

 

C D (E flat) E G A C

 

That's the major blues scale on C.

[graypencil]

Originally posted by Byrdman:

 

So, in the key of C the minor blues scale is

 

C (E flat) F (G flat) G (B flat) C

 

Now just like the regular minor to major transformation play the same notes starting a minor third higher.

 

(E flat) F (G flat) G (B flat) C (E flat)

 

That's the major blues scale of E flat.

 

Transpose back down to C and you get:

 

C D (E flat) E G A C

 

That's the major blues scale on C.

[graypencil]

RE Blues scale per Birdman as shown above:

 

uhh ..whrere are the* sevenths* in your blues scales scales???

 

C = Ma 6th in Eb scale...... ( Db) ?

 

A = Ma 6th in C scale....... ( Bb) ?

[burningbusch]

You might look at these sites as well:

 

http://www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer/index.html

 

http://www.learnjazzpiano.com/

 

Busch.