Getting started using blues scales start here for beginners. How to play bb blues scale on trumpet concert ab blues scale the blues scale. Lesson pdf s air flow exercise art farmer whisper not bebop scales 1 bebop scales 2 interval study 1 isfahan trumpet solo by ron stout jazz licks by clifford brown jazz licks by kenny dorham jazz licks by tom harrell jazz licks by woody shaw kenny dorham solo on a slow boat to china lip flexibility 1 lip flexibility 2 major. Hey i really need all of the trumpet blues scales for improve in jazz band. The hexatonic sixnote blues scale is basically a minor pentatonic scale with the addition of a blue note between the fourth and the fifth degrees. Blues scales for trumpet music lessons with mr taylor. You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. When playing a twelve bar blues in the key of bb, use the bb blues scale anywhere in the chord progression. One option then has the line returning to the root still within the pentatonic scale. Recently i did a post about the 3 most important jazz scales for beginning improvisers. Print and download in pdf or midi musescore3a1e9d38cd7a778fcb6c9551b4be39eb0afe63d2a0985aaa792564123d8cfb0b. Often regarded as a starter scale for those of us exploring jazz improvisation for the first time, its actually incredibly useful for improvisors of all levels it can sound convincing in almost any context.
Trumpet easy notes easy to read trumpet studies in pdf. Each of the cd tracks utilize the same 12 bar blues chord progression, 1 4 1 1 4 4 1 1 5 4 1 1 but feature a different musical style. In the bb version of this book, some exercises will fit better with the range of the trumpet and some with the range of the saxophone. Saint louis blues trumpet bb or bugle or cornet, piano easy 3 pdf 2 mp3 playalong arranger. Blues scales w dominant 7th arpeggios milton high school. Many times its just the best choice for solo improvisation, and, as long as you play the right notes, theres really no wrong way to do it.
I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all keys. Gordon is he feels, one of his most important books because of the nature of the blues scale and how it is used to improvise in many styles of contemporary music. Pentatonic major and minor are essentially the same thing starting a minor 6th up. A collection of most used blues scales for trumpet. C blues scale, f blues scale, b flat blues scale, e flat blues scale, a flat blues scale, d flat blues scale, f sharp blues scale, b blues scale, e blues scale, a blues scale, d blues scale, g blues scale. The major blues scale is some less common than the minor blues scale, and therefore we start with minor and you will find the major by. Upsidedown scale studies for improvisation upsidedown. A trumpet specific, embouchurebuilding supplement to craig fraedrichs scale studies for improvisation. One octave major and minor scales trumpet in bb author. Blues scales trumpet lexcerpts sheet music for piano. They just ooze that minor bluesy vibe or sweet major vibe. Jazz scale sheet music for trumpet download free in pdf. The advanced trumpeters perfect practice pdf and all sheet music downloads are free for members of learn lead trumpet. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player.
Since they are stacked minor 3rds youll only need to learn 3 different diminished scales depending on what note you start on. With trumpet easy notes you can play more music, faster and the more you play the more you will be god at. Blues scales on trumpet learn your blues scales in all 12 keys with the help of this pdf. These are fundamental scales that every trumpeter should know. The solution below shows the bb blues scale, on the piano, treble clef and bass clef since the key of bb appears on the circle of fifths diagram as both a major and minor key, the lesson steps explain both ways of constructing this blues scale for this key the 1st construction, using the major scale, starts at lesson 3 the 2nd construction, using the minor pentatonic. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to master. Adding a blue note to the regular pentatonic scale result in the pentatonic blues scale. Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues.
Like the tenor sax and clarinet, the trumpet sounds two semitones lower than what it reads a d sounds like a c the player has to play in a key two steps higher than the band. These scales are for obvious reasons perfect when playing blues on the piano. Jazz scale applications the preceding scales are here roughly arranged from most consonant to most dissonant in relation to the following chord types. Despite its name, the blues scale is not only used in blues music.
Miller 2005 concert bb blues concert eb blues concert f blues. Here is a pdf of the 36 important scales major, dorian, and. If you could send me a link to where i could get them for free that would be cool thanks re. Pentatonic scales are killer scales to play over blues and over iivv changes. After the pentatonic minor scale and major scale, the blues scale is probably the most widelyused scale in guitar improvisation.
To summarize, the most important scales to learn first are the major, dorian, and mixolydian scales because they help you navigate major 7th, minor 7th, and dominant b7 chords, respectively. The trumpet fingering under each note, makes it easy to know and reference the correct combination of valves to use when playing this scale. The advanced trumpeter s perfect practice pdf and all sheet music downloads are free for members of learn lead trumpet. Pentatonic scales trumpet pdf the following article is an excerpt from my book, recycling in jazz improvisation which can be downloaded as a pdf in my books section of. I play baritonsax in a blues band and it would help me a lot in my improvisations.
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