Thank Neal,
One more question do you have any ideas for trying to improvise on the blues.
I know the basic blues formula (1, 3, 3b, 4, 4b, 5b, 7) but how do you make it sound melodic and cool blues?
Thank you in advance.
Darryl
Hey Darryl,
What you described sort of looks like the ‘blues scale’. But it’s not the same…. I’m not really sure what that was- (1, 3, 3b, 4, 4b, 5b, 7)
There is no blues formula.
Certain notes- b3, b5, b7 give the blues part of its sound, but it’s not a formula.
My advice would be to start simple.
And listen to blues players.
-Neal
Neal if a guitar player is playing a blues I’n a what key would I use on tenor sax all the best mick57
Hey Mick, a guitar is in concert pitch, so you go up a whole step from there to B. You do that because the interval between C and Bb is a whole step. So anything for guitar or piano you take up a whole step if you want to play it on tenor sax.