Rob Schumann: The subject to this tutorial is adding 9's and 6's to the Blue scale and this is something that comes in really handy, if you have already been playing the Blues for a while, you are used to that minor pentatonic and blue scale box, and looking to add some connecting notes and you could just make them melodic. Possibility is you can make some of licks sound a little bit more shred like and I can also give a Jazz element to what you are already playing.
So, we will start by taking a look at where these 6's and 9's fall and then take a look at some licks that we can also incorporate those into. Before we get into that, let's apply this to a major scale and actually find out what our notes that are the 6's and 9's scale degree and where they will fall. I am going to start on this fifth fret A, and that's the key will play out of and I am just going to play a major scale for starters.
So this way we can find out what our notes are that actually are the 6's and 9's. So if we consider A1, we will just go up the major scale 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. So there is the sixth thats an F sharp, seven; which in this case will be G sharp that's on to our blue scale but there is seven, then back to eight or one again, and then we go to nine, which is going to be B.
So that tell us that our two notes in this case are F sharp and B. so when we in the key of A Blues, we can add the F sharp which is going to be that six and the B which is going to be the nine. Well, we found both of those notes here, here is the F Sharp on the forth fret and the B on the forth fret as well. However, that is not the only place, we can play them, and in fact there is more effective places to play them.
You can use an octave shape and this is just sort of staying in this familiar fifth fret box here in A, but we can use an octave shape to find the next highest of F sharp. So there I have another F sharp and I can do the same thing with this B. So what that shows me is, on my seventh fret here, on the second string, I have an F sharp, that's my six, and on the seventh fret of the first string, I have a nine.
So, I am going to keep in mind as I navigate the Blue scale, that I can also add this note in and this note, and then I can also backup here to the fourth fret and grab a nine there and a six there. So that adds some notes to my scale as I go. And a good way to think about that, is to play the Blue scale, and then step back and think, okay, there is my nine, there is my six.
Same thing here, here is the three, flat third going down on the nine, here is the flat seven, going down to the six.
In our next segment, we are going to go through the other forms that A Blue scale and look for those same notes in there as well.
Ryan Newell: Hello everyone! My name is Ryan Newell, I play guitar in the band Sister Hazel. This would be a G chord and you just strum down and then arpeggio back up.
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