hello tail tellers and mini jazz players and mini blues players welcome to the performing arts free school um now then let me see how are we going to start well i tell you what we're going to spend the next 12 days working on 12 blues scales okay and they're so easy they're so easy and they're going to allow you to improvise really really easily now if you don't know i'm doing the mini jazz classes grade one abrsm um piano uh book we're working through that and this blues scale is going to help you make beautiful music for your solo parts in your exams but we don't have to do all that exam stuff we don't want to we can just do it for our own pleasure these wonderful scales are going to help you make beautiful beautiful music and you're going to be able to make it up as you go along and that's just fantastic because you'll impress even yourself your biggest critic critic is yourself no doubt so let's start with middle c and then we're going to play an e flat with our second finger and an f natural with our third and then we're going to play an f sharp with our fourth okay go do that for me c e flat f f sharp back down uh let's start with the f sharp f sharp f natural e flat c okay don't worry i'm going to give you a backing track in a minute and you can play around and improvise yourselves it's really great fun and then rather than play the g with our pinky we're going to pass our thumb under and we're going to play thumb on the g section of the b flat and third on the c now there are lots and lots of different ways of um you know mapping out how your scales and and the fingering that you're going to use but this is the fingering we're going to use today okay and this is i think the best for our purposes for the time being that doesn't mean to say you'll be doing this all the time because when you get more advanced you become a little bit more uh flexible and you have to sometimes stretch your hand about the place so let's try that all in one go c e flat f f sharp thumb under g b flat c back down again b flat g f sharp f natural e flat and c okay one more time

okay so don't forget to pass your your fourth finger over now let's try it from the middle c

a mirror version okay and then we're going to come back again i'll explain why we're doing this mirror version in a minute

now i just think it's going to be much more useful for us to start that c down there with our third finger so c base c e flat f

f sharp with your fourth g with your third b flat with your second and thumb on that c okay under back up fourth over okay how did you get on well that's it but i do think it's beneficial to go up and down okay so when you're practicing mix it up a bit start on the c and go outwards and then start on the c's and go upwards and back down again whatever you whatever you want to do and as long as you stick to those notes you're going to be absolutely fine so what i'm going to do now is i'm going to get one of my robots to play a c minor backing track with a bass um should we have libby libby is one of my robots okay now you can play double time so you can do one two three four one two three four one two three four or you can speed it up etc entirely up to you but i'm going to let that run and i recommend you practice as as long as you can have some fun with it and we'll be back tomorrow with d flat the d flat minor but we've got some other classes coming up in a minute for the bedford views if you're interested do do

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okay guys i hope that was really really helpful and um yeah just open go keep going back and doing more of the same and then of course you can improvise and you can do these in any order that you want

okay have some fun with it it's great isn't it enjoy