3 Scales Every Jazz Musician Should Know

Do you know the 3 scales that all great jazz musicians know?

00:00 Introduction
00:42 Diminished Scale
01:56 Pentatonic Scale
03:16 Blues Scale
05:07 BONUS SCALE!

[ForceOfWill]

Learning this kind of stuff makes me feel like a beginner again, and I love it. I was classically trained for 13 years before life got in the way, and as grateful as I am for that, it was rigid. We'd spend months perfecting a Chopin for a judged performance, but playing like this just feels freeing. I hope I can master this style one day!

[deepbreaths.sounds]

Well taught...years of searching, listening, analyzing, discussing, practicing & performance (pre-YOUTUBE) condensed into a 6 minute teaching. Priceless.

[winstonmacmahon]

Excellent as always Peter, would love to see another 6 min video on how you practice them individually and finally how you inter-mix the 3

[ConanDuke]

That might be the most concise music lesson I've ever had. Excellent. Lean, no BS.

[coloaten]

Brilliant. That's what you call a No-Bull Lesson! It's a Noble Lesson too!! And a No Ball I'll stop now! 🤣

[dougfolkins]

OMG In all my years
I never had a better more
well thought out lesson In my life. Thanks so much

[knowledgeapplied]

1:55 Wait, wait, wait, hold on..back it up, just a little bit, Peter.

You forgot to mention one of the best parts about learning diminished scales. ...

And that is ...

The shortcut, or the simplification of it all.

Just as there are only three (3) primary diminished chords [and diminished 7th chords], since all of the notes are spaced out evenly, similarly, there are only three primary diminished scales to learn as well.

If you can figure out & learn the first 3 dimished scales (C, C#, D... literally, just those 3), then you've already learned all 12.

Just remember what fingering you had used, when you get to the other nine scales, and you're all done.

Also, you may want to try different fingering patterns to discover what order/sequence works best for you.

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[benardmshila]

Am happy to have learnt something new..These channel is Very Educative.. Thank you Teacher.

[efs]

The path to many long solo lines of rich tensions is way shorter than I anticipated. I can't believe this material was right under my nose all these years. It seems a lot of this could have been derived from the Persichetti or the Messiaen harmonic technique books, but for some reason I just never did (or wasn't led to) the short walk from there to here. 😢 Much missed joyful playing and reinventing the wheel with just a handful of licks with juat one of these scales seems like it could have flourished into a nice gig much earlier. Listening to this is like a chiropractic adjustment in the musical part of my brain, 25 years overdue. Well I'm still alive and there's always today at least. Time to get to the piano. Thank you so much for putting this down.

[drstrange]

Haha!! A “post credit” scene! Bravo!! 👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾

[DojoOfCool]

Good stuff as always. Interesting "Jazz club" lighting cool for talking Blues and Pentatonic scales.

[king]

Six minutes packed with goodness. Excellent!

[robertfieldsjr.]

You are a great teacher
You have your heart into helping musicians. Keep up the wonderful work.

[grocheo]

I hit the like button even before the video actually starts. These guys are amazing. Thanks for the content! Thanks

[paddylandreville]

That was awesome Peter, thanks for posting, enjoyed that.

[jdbroome]

Thanks for a great Tutorial!
Much appreciated !

[colorfulwater]

Thank you so much! This was a missing piece that I needed.

[dividedwords]

Great video! One thing that always puzzles me: why is so little attention paid by teachers to either the major mode of the pentatonic (1 2 3 5 6) and/or especially the major blues scale (it's called other things, too: 1 2 b3 3 5 6). That last one seems so important, but so few people even mention it. @Open Studio? Anyone?

Thank you
Greetings from Madrid
Peace and 🎹

[zorroinhell]

Great and important video. Is it possible for you to explain what you are doing with the left hand?