TUTORIAL: Learning Scales & Chords

[Tee2]

Whats a "blue note?" I read about them somewhere. Is that like when you play a chord and one of intervals falls onto a note that's not actually in the scale?

[Nick83]

this is great, man. really appreciate you taking the time to lay it out for us. i'm currently self teaching myself basic theory and i am only about a month in and this kinda clears it up a bit. good work, thats what this site is all about.....helping your fellow brethren

[Guilty J]

Whats a "blue note?" I read about them somewhere. Is that like when you play a chord and one of intervals falls onto a note that's not actually in the scale?

I'm not sure, i've heard the term used in Jazz & Blues music, not sure of its meaning tho.

EDIT:

In jazz and blues, a blue note (also "worried" note[1]) is a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres. Country blues, in particular, features wide variations from the diatonic pitches with emotive blue-notes. Blue notes are often seen as akin to relative pitches found in traditional African work songs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_note

this is great, man. really appreciate you taking the time to lay it out for us. i'm currently self teaching myself basic theory and i am only about a month in and this kinda clears it up a bit. good work, thats what this site is all about.....helping your fellow brethren

No doubt man. I struggled with this stuff when i was learning, nobody ever layed it out simply.

Actually this guide helped me a lot, you should check it out, i should have posted this in the original post:

www.ravenspiral.com/ravenspiralguide.pdf

[nattwalls]

thanks for this!

[Ev-G]

That's great thanks

[Desire6393]

1st time here

[krazyk]

nice post man....helped alot

[E.Money805]

okay so wait hold on... what do you mean count backwards. i've re-read the first section of this but still don't understand. i bet it's simple but i'm just not trackin' yet. hmm...

[Guilty J]

okay so wait hold on... what do you mean count backwards. i've re-read the first section of this but still don't understand. i bet it's simple but i'm just not trackin' yet. hmm...

Its cool..Which part are you havin trouble with?

[E.Money805]

can we define scales, chords, sharps and flats and such. i think that'll help. err.. maybe i'll google it and get back at it...