4 Scales Every Jazz Musician Should Know

Every jazz musician needs to know these scales, so let's find out if you have what it takes!
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  • @cuneytsonmez
    @cuneytsonmez3 жыл бұрын

    What a lesson this was. Now give me 2 years to practice and internalize them in 12 keys.

  • @robertmurphy3608

    @robertmurphy3608

    Жыл бұрын

    And 5 hours everyday!

  • @ianmoore5502

    @ianmoore5502

    Жыл бұрын

    2 years of practicing for 5 hrs a day would make you an absolute monster

  • @abrahamkim2304

    @abrahamkim2304

    Ай бұрын

    All done? 😂

  • @cuneytsonmez

    @cuneytsonmez

    Ай бұрын

    @@abrahamkim2304 WHAT A TEACHER WE''VE GOT HERE?! NOT ONLY INSTRUCTING BUT ALSO PURSUING. After 3 years...

  • @hurrdurrrderp
    @hurrdurrrderp2 жыл бұрын

    Time codes: 3:55 Blues scale 9:37 Altered scale 11:23 Diminished scale 14:05 Pentatonic scale

  • @matthewgrace4352

    @matthewgrace4352

    Жыл бұрын

    Ii

  • @matthewgrace4352

    @matthewgrace4352

    Жыл бұрын

    How bbbbbhhuhuu

  • @doncleary5531
    @doncleary55313 жыл бұрын

    If I spent as much time practicing what you guys talk about as I do watching what you guys present, I'd be amazing lol. I now know way more than I can implement. Great stuff, guys!

  • @MAYNOR82

    @MAYNOR82

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m in the same boat captain! Where are we sailing to?!?!

  • @blow-by-blow-trumpet

    @blow-by-blow-trumpet

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know that feeling, but these days I pick one small concept and work it every which way for a couple of weeks before moving on to something else. This approach is really working for me now and I can see real tangible improvement. Be strict with yourself.

  • @abdulalshibly3930

    @abdulalshibly3930

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@blow-by-blow-trumpet That is what I am trying to do. In the beginning I was eager to just know more and forgot about practicing any of these concepts so it lead me to just being more of a music theorist than a musician.

  • @zeljkopranjic123

    @zeljkopranjic123

    Жыл бұрын

    6 is

  • @ArthurRosch
    @ArthurRosch2 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in Olivette in the 60s and YOU GUYS WEREN"T THERE yet. Hardly anybody was there. You have transformed the ST. Louis area music environment. I mean...the scene.

  • @luiszimbron2
    @luiszimbron24 жыл бұрын

    You all’s channel so extremely underrated! Please don’t stop making videos!

  • @sarankeys9746
    @sarankeys97464 жыл бұрын

    Best KZread channel for jazz musicians ❤️

  • @BauKim
    @BauKim2 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate that you guys put these episodes on youtube. I've started following you guys on spotify cause I need more, but I would loooove more video episodes!

  • @abrahamkim2304
    @abrahamkim23044 жыл бұрын

    Love that you guys are back. Need my daily Open Studio fix

  • @lucaslieberman7625
    @lucaslieberman76253 жыл бұрын

    This video is gold!

  • @eddiemajour8481
    @eddiemajour84814 жыл бұрын

    This is great! Thank you!

  • @tsnotes52
    @tsnotes52 Жыл бұрын

    You guys are amazing, thank you so much.

  • @robertomui333
    @robertomui333 Жыл бұрын

    You both are such an inspiration...even as guitarist ! 😃...thx for your work

  • @cisumgre
    @cisumgre3 жыл бұрын

    I’ve watched this a LOT of times. (Just watched it now*). Always great to refresh. 🙏🏾

  • @swiftla
    @swiftla4 жыл бұрын

    Missed you guys! Cheers for the great content as always

  • @romanslegion7771
    @romanslegion77714 жыл бұрын

    Nice banter and playing , fellas.

  • @EmilioConesa
    @EmilioConesa2 жыл бұрын

    I can’t get enough of you guys! Thank you

  • @felixhoezen3935
    @felixhoezen39354 жыл бұрын

    I love your podcast and the guided practice sessions! Great to see you back on here together 🙃

  • @thealchemyofsong8632

    @thealchemyofsong8632

    Жыл бұрын

    Where can you find their guided practice sessions? Would love to try that out.

  • @brianmeese1641
    @brianmeese1641 Жыл бұрын

    This is gold nuggets just served up 🙏

  • @mickpattison7489
    @mickpattison74893 жыл бұрын

    Wow this video really reached out to me. I could watch these two all day

  • @maxbui276
    @maxbui2764 жыл бұрын

    Big fan of your videos guys!!

  • @tropicvibe
    @tropicvibe Жыл бұрын

    I took Gary Burton's improvisation course from Berklee and he did not believe in teaching any other scales except for 10 specific ones until you could demonstrate some kind of improvisational proficiency; The 7 modes (in order of brightness to darkness), diminished scale, altered scale, and Lydian b7. Reason being that in the beginning, with scales like blues, pentatonic, etc, it's way too tempting to let your fingers pick out notes instead of your brain creating the melodies... but of course all other scales are covered afterwards. Either way thank you for the vid, was quite informative.

  • @rodcoombes8711
    @rodcoombes8711 Жыл бұрын

    I don’t know a lot of theory but I love jazz chording from Herbie in the 70’s , but this half hour has sealed it for me, like I was right all along I know what I love .A big thankyou.

  • @Pajamasmakesmusic
    @Pajamasmakesmusic4 жыл бұрын

    Adam looking fit bro. Good work!

  • @eserevcil
    @eserevcil Жыл бұрын

    Major and minor 3th :)) Thanks

  • @michaelrichardson2359
    @michaelrichardson2359 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! I had to slow down the keyboard to .25%, but now I’m beginning to have a better understanding of “the blues scale” and I got to learn some cool licks! Thanks to both of you!

  • @LevieSolonka
    @LevieSolonka3 жыл бұрын

    Impressive!

  • @gerrycappuccio4186
    @gerrycappuccio4186 Жыл бұрын

    The bonus scale is the Whole tone scale !

  • @robertzantay5923
    @robertzantay5923 Жыл бұрын

    There are two whole tone scales which both can be started on six different tonics. There are four half tone whole tone scales each of which can be used for three different keys. This knowledge helps the Jazz soloist to more efficiently organize his approach to practicing the materials. Playing an F major pentatonic over a Bb major seventh chord is a simple way to achieve the celestial sounds that Bird identified while avoiding the tonic.

  • @Ambidextroid

    @Ambidextroid

    Ай бұрын

    *3 half whole scales that can each be used for 4 different keys

  • @Landsdoodle
    @Landsdoodle Жыл бұрын

    You guys are the Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers of music, great stuff!

  • @MAYNOR82
    @MAYNOR822 жыл бұрын

    This video is amaaaszing! Straight schooling us jazz peasants! If there are any teachers here please send this video to your students! PLEASE DO SO!!!!

  • @genekelly3961
    @genekelly39612 жыл бұрын

    These guys are today’s torches of jazz education. 15 stars to Adam Mannes and Peter Martin. Holla!h!

  • @Victor2612
    @Victor26124 жыл бұрын

    I was waiting for this video...

  • @chasjazzz7842
    @chasjazzz78424 жыл бұрын

    lol, look like a 9' piano w/o the keys...Adam..I love your courses Jazz chords for beginners and the New one you just put out "Magic of voicing". Think I'm gong 2 get it

  • @WoodyGamesUK
    @WoodyGamesUK Жыл бұрын

    When I first tried to learn the blues, pre-internet time, I naturally played the major blues scale before I found out about the minor blues scale. The reason is simple: I was first introduced to a bluesy sound not through the blues, but various pop songs with piano (think Elton John, even Guns n' Roses, I mean the list is very large), and I noticed that they commonly use the major blues scale from the key of the song. This is what guitarists do when the play the minor pentatonic over everything (which is like the major blues scale starting on a different note). If you gave me a blues I would have done the same, and it sounded fine. But I didn't realise what is really specific to the blues sound. I remember the first time I actually played the minor blues scale over a major blues, thinking It cannot be right as it doesn't "match" the chords, but at the same time realising that for the first time it REALLY sounded like the blues, and that it was what I had been missing.

  • @seth1482

    @seth1482

    Жыл бұрын

    Now mix minor and major blues together and it'll start to really sound like the blues.

  • @arthurrosch5378
    @arthurrosch53783 жыл бұрын

    You and Adam are phenomatastic. I just made up that word.

  • @ulrikandreassen3923
    @ulrikandreassen39234 жыл бұрын

    Is it only me thinking the table make the piano look like a Grand piano? :) Great video as always!

  • @willsims2009
    @willsims20092 жыл бұрын

    WOW I'm seeing some interesting things to do with the altered scale. I noticed that the C altered scale can be played over C9 and over Gb7. I noticed that the Gb alter scale can be played over a Gb7 and C9. This is cool!! I stopped at the altered scale

  • @willsims2009
    @willsims20092 жыл бұрын

    Wow! This altered scale of a note a half step down works over a Min/Maj 7. For example a B altered scale sounds great over a Cmaj/min 7 or cm6/9. I just tried this on Nica's Dream and it worked! Bbmaj/min 7 with an A altered and then a "G Altered" over the Abmaj/min7

  • @frederikmarohn6358

    @frederikmarohn6358

    Жыл бұрын

    Makes sense. Altered scale is the 7th mode of the melodic minor scale.

  • @michaelo061
    @michaelo0614 жыл бұрын

    Thanks guys, another great video! Can u do a vid on the harmonic minor scale? And applying it over the 5, in a minor 2-5-1?

  • @Ambidextroid

    @Ambidextroid

    Ай бұрын

    Use the 5th mode of the harmonic minor over the 5 chord, i.e. use the harmonic minor based on the 1 chord that the 5 is going to, so if you are playing A7 which resolves to D minor, use the D harmonic minor with the A7. You can then continue playing D harmonic minor over the D minor chord, or switch to a different D minor scale when you get to the D minor for more variation.

  • @thelonious-dx9vi
    @thelonious-dx9vi3 жыл бұрын

    I see the half-whole diminished as whole-half up from any degree of the rootless b9 synonym of the diminished chord. I'm not sure how much of that is guitar "shapiness" and seeing the neck, but that's what I see. Not saying I don't start/end lines, and generally relate things to the root of the dominant, not like that at all. I just mean in terms of the mental layout, where the notes are without having to think about it.

  • @shaolin1derpalm
    @shaolin1derpalm2 жыл бұрын

    At a distance the guy on the right reminds me of Jack Packard.

  • @TheMarcellojazz
    @TheMarcellojazz4 жыл бұрын

    Impressionante

  • @nicookkerse4199
    @nicookkerse4199 Жыл бұрын

    Guys, only with the diminished scale you describe what it actually is. With the other three scales you only add more varieties without the basic. Also very fast doesn’t mean better understandable….

  • @joepalooka2145
    @joepalooka21454 жыл бұрын

    I like the reference to Louis Armstrong. Miles Davis wasn't joking when he said "The history of jazz can be said in four words: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker".

  • @KiraPlaysGuitar
    @KiraPlaysGuitar4 жыл бұрын

    As far as the reverb goes by the way, I would put a couple of rugs down, one under the desk, one in front of the door, and some diffusers behind each of you (and maybe the wall next to you) those will help break up any sound that bounces from the walls so it doesn't all hit the mic at once (creating thick reverb). Adam's voice is hitting the wall behind Peter and going into Peter's mic (then back to his own) and vice versa!

  • @otraperspectiva

    @otraperspectiva

    2 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree, there's a lot of reverb going on.

  • @JudahDaniels
    @JudahDaniels4 жыл бұрын

    Love this extra long setup lol

  • @tebs
    @tebs Жыл бұрын

    "That's where the plant-based meat is man" hahahaha love that, great video! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @shaolin1derpalm
    @shaolin1derpalm2 жыл бұрын

    What was the bonus scale?

  • @quentinmorales
    @quentinmorales4 жыл бұрын

    You forgot the bonus scale or did I miss it?

  • @francescofusillipiano6163
    @francescofusillipiano61634 жыл бұрын

    Can you post a link for the app?

  • @romanslegion7771
    @romanslegion77714 жыл бұрын

    ??? Does anyone know about some kind of poster or resource that has , For Guitar , These 4 scale fingerings, associated chords , & when to best use them in context ???

  • @Ambidextroid
    @AmbidextroidАй бұрын

    My picks would be diatonic, melodic minor, whole tone and diminished. Using all their modes and sprinkling in some chromatic scale you can get pretty much every sound you'd ever want

  • @hillsbeverlycreative5087
    @hillsbeverlycreative5087 Жыл бұрын

    Oh, maaan !

  • @Bdorian
    @Bdorian3 жыл бұрын

    What about whole tone scale?

  • @Veyelet3
    @Veyelet33 жыл бұрын

    Hey There! is that a midi keyboard you are using peter? which one if you don't mind me asking. mad luv!

  • @hansolo7003
    @hansolo7003 Жыл бұрын

    Can anyone tell me what type of keyboard/digital piano Peter is using in this video?

  • @willsims2009
    @willsims20092 жыл бұрын

    A "B altered scale works over an F13... This is nuts!!! I'm also noticing reversals (it's what I call them). I played a "B Altered" over a Balt chord and F13 and over those same chords I played an "F altered' scale....Someone help, I see the relation, but can't explain it!!

  • @flpsnk4848
    @flpsnk48488 ай бұрын

    5# Augmented scale on maj7 chords - minor third, minor second cycle - C, Eb, E, G, Ab, B, C, Seriously, try it out...

  • @stephenrothman6058
    @stephenrothman60582 жыл бұрын

    Fingerings for each of these scales?

  • @ArthurRosch
    @ArthurRosch2 жыл бұрын

    I'm curious as to the pianos you use. I've had a Yamaha P125 but it's getting to be limiting. And the keys rattle...badly...some of them. Is this an appropriate question? If I have 1500 to spend, where should I look? I'm juicing on the Yamaha P515 or the Roland RD88.

  • @potatoindespair4494
    @potatoindespair44944 жыл бұрын

    I think you forgot the bonus scale haha

  • @KiraPlaysGuitar

    @KiraPlaysGuitar

    4 жыл бұрын

    Haven't watched the video yet but I'm going to go ahead and say Altered Dominant (Locrian b4/Super Locrian). Every note is flattened except the root, give that guy a guy over any altered dominant seventh chords (V7 with a b9, #9, #11 and/or #13). Another way to think of the scale is it starts like diminished scale and ends like a whole tone scale. Fun stuff.

  • @anthonysilva5312

    @anthonysilva5312

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@KiraPlaysGuitar that was the second scale

  • @KiraPlaysGuitar

    @KiraPlaysGuitar

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@anthonysilva5312 Yeah, I watched it afterwards. It was just a weird, dumb guess.

  • @anthonysilva5312

    @anthonysilva5312

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@KiraPlaysGuitar not dumb at all! Altered scale is a go to jazz choice! Cheers!

  • @ArgoBeats
    @ArgoBeats4 жыл бұрын

    and... the bonus scale?

  • @MarioCalzadaMusic
    @MarioCalzadaMusic4 жыл бұрын

    Thank u very much, btw, I didn’t understood the pentatonic scale, is not the same as blues?

  • @KiraPlaysGuitar

    @KiraPlaysGuitar

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Blues scale has one extra added note, the b5 (aka #4, tritone, blue note), making it technically a six note scale, as opposed to the five note "penta-tonic" (penta=5 tonic=tones). As they said it's more of a sound than a scale, you don't go building chords from it or anything. But throwing in the tritone into your minor pentatonic licks make them sound a whole lot more bluesy and dark. The minor pentatonic scale is the 1, b3, 4, 5, b7. The Blues scale is 1, 3, 4, b5, 5, b7. For more of a blues sound, bend/slide/trill (depending on your instrument) up to the b5 from the 4. E.g., [first triplet on beat 4, second triplet (two notes and hold) on the one] (8th note triplets) 𝄽 𝄽 𝄽 {4-b5-4} {3-1- -}

  • @fucu41
    @fucu41 Жыл бұрын

    Yall. Etter teach the people

  • @kevinclifford3240
    @kevinclifford3240 Жыл бұрын

    What is the intro song??

  • @matthewgrace4352
    @matthewgrace4352 Жыл бұрын

    Julie

  • @guidemeChrist
    @guidemeChrist3 жыл бұрын

    Really if I was told to use 4 scales only, I'd use the 4 scales of chords only. You know, 6th diminished, minor 6th diminished, dominant 7th diminished, dominant 7th b5 diminished. Also, I like to think about the "altered scale" or "lydian dominant" as the synthesis of the diminished scale with the whole tone scale

  • @romanslegion7771
    @romanslegion77714 жыл бұрын

    And the link to that Beta test thingie

  • @nukeman444
    @nukeman4444 жыл бұрын

    Four(4) scales that every jazz musician *betta' had know* lol

  • @masonshirley4051
    @masonshirley4051 Жыл бұрын

    In France, they call the blues scale "the scale of many capabilities".

  • @anthonysilva5312
    @anthonysilva53123 жыл бұрын

    20 fingers+4 huge ears = I’mma need some practice

  • @blaisegeorges1935
    @blaisegeorges19354 жыл бұрын

    Whats the tool you think about learning music ?

  • @akmuk7
    @akmuk72 жыл бұрын

    🙏🙏

  • @TheToothGoose
    @TheToothGoose4 жыл бұрын

    Whats with the "SIMP" sticker on Adam's Macbook?

  • @Breakbeat90s

    @Breakbeat90s

    3 жыл бұрын

    no kinkshaming pls 😂

  • @Alic4444

    @Alic4444

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Breakbeat90s lol :)

  • @Albeit_Jordan
    @Albeit_Jordan10 ай бұрын

    7:10 "You do that if you want to sound like an amateur... actually, if you're really professional you could probably get away with it." Yup... that really is how music is ey.

  • @juwonnnnn
    @juwonnnnn4 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @jeffparker9791
    @jeffparker97913 жыл бұрын

    A trick going up the diminished scale with 4 notes at a time: Just make sure to hit the first note correctly and then plan the dismissed chord starting with that note. It all works out.....you don't even have to think about the notes of the scale.

  • @willsims2009
    @willsims20092 жыл бұрын

    A D alt works over an Ab13......

  • @HuggumsMcgehee
    @HuggumsMcgehee4 жыл бұрын

    How do you guys get that keyboard to show up at the bottom of the screen in your videos?

  • @alistaircornacchio5727

    @alistaircornacchio5727

    4 жыл бұрын

    If I were to guess... That keyboard definitely has midi capabilities and they probably have some program that transfers the midi information into that on screen display.

  • @peterbrien2975

    @peterbrien2975

    4 жыл бұрын

    alistair Cornacchio GOogle VPMK!

  • @katzebausch3937
    @katzebausch3937 Жыл бұрын

    these two man are only conversation choaches???

  • @bobrobertson9547
    @bobrobertson95473 жыл бұрын

    95% chat, 4% demo and 1% imparting of and any rationale. Mince.

  • @Albeit_Jordan
    @Albeit_Jordan4 ай бұрын

    who's the bald dude he's dope

  • @rodapa1
    @rodapa110 ай бұрын

    En el Video hay dos fuentes sonoras superpuestas: Alguien hablando y otro tocando...no es muy didáctico...In the Video there are two superimposed sound sources: Someone talking and another playing...it's not quite didactic...

  • @orkunzafer
    @orkunzafer7 ай бұрын

    great explanations however so fast to understand :(

  • @tonyandrew3222
    @tonyandrew32223 жыл бұрын

    Who else gotta a problem with the spellings that are appearing on youtube screen nowadays guys 🤔

  • @EllenObrock-gs4tq
    @EllenObrock-gs4tq4 ай бұрын

    What pandemic?

  • @michaelvogt-gitarre9096
    @michaelvogt-gitarre90964 жыл бұрын

    blablablablablablaba.... make music, show music, teach music, but come to the point....

  • @tedpowers2045

    @tedpowers2045

    2 жыл бұрын

    Then go away

  • @_Moses44
    @_Moses44 Жыл бұрын

    Jazz is the diarrhea of music.

  • @NotFine

    @NotFine

    Жыл бұрын

    hard disagree but you do you

  • @IRACEMABABU

    @IRACEMABABU

    Жыл бұрын

    As the ass of music you know first shot.... LOL

  • @JimBaker-ks4io

    @JimBaker-ks4io

    8 ай бұрын

    Low IQ spotted

  • @thomasvick361
    @thomasvick3614 жыл бұрын

    You all talk too much. Please teach more with your playing and do less talking.

  • @sabinehohler4101

    @sabinehohler4101

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's completely unorganised and endless chat, not very useful

  • @pichipachu

    @pichipachu

    3 жыл бұрын

    If these guys changed their style... probably nobody would listen to them. I think it's probably their joie de vivre that's getting to everybody! Nah... Are these guys joyful musicians? Is music sometimes joy, too? Joy Behar. Joy Stick. Joyce. Comedy. KZread comedy. I Love Music... Any Kind of Music... I Love Music... just as long as it's grooving (the O'Jays)

  • @JJArts-sr5jw

    @JJArts-sr5jw

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dude this lessons was priceless good. With high quality for more advanced players.. Be happy these legends give us lessons for free!!

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    @arthurrosch53783 жыл бұрын

    This link leads to the Writer's Digest Award winning novel about a jazz musician struggling to fulfill his promise. It's FREE! Musicians love it and I love you guys as mentors and inspirations. @t

  • @idinemousavi7444
    @idinemousavi74444 жыл бұрын

    What was the bonus scale?

  • @slickwillie3376
    @slickwillie33766 ай бұрын

    What was the bonus scale?