Playing Blues scale

[BUMNOTE]

Someone did me blues in all keys backing track,by Jamie abersold,now if I play a track in c..can I use d minor scale,or F major scale...think my head haggled from work..to muchn going on.Thanks.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Someone did me blues in all keys backing track,by Jamie abersold,now if I play a track in c..can I use d minor scale,or F major scale...think my head haggled from work..to muchn going on.Thanks.

If you have a blues in C you can use a C minor blues scale, which will probably be fine over all 12 bars - especially if you phrase it well. A C major blues scale will be fine over the C chords, but not so much the others, especially F7. And not really at all if it's a minor blues.

I'm not sure where you get D minor or F major if it's a C blues.

 

[Jez Watson]

Hi Bumnote, i think you think you have to go up a tone, are you playing tenor? its probably or not? written out in the tenor key, is it in Bflat concert key?, i would learn chord tones for the chords and experiment with those as well as the "blues scale" in the key you need to be in? regards , Jez

 

[BUMNOTE]

not sure where you get D minor or F major if it's a C blues.

Hi Pete thanks for reply,the guy said as a example,if I play track 3,and when I play it,it announces the track as C,he printed me a list of blues scales major and minor,and marked D minor or F major to play along with,or did I misunderstand..

 

[BUMNOTE]

are you playing tenor?

Would that explain confusion ? Think I need to jack it in.

 

[Jez Watson]

Bumnote, do you want me to give you a ring, try to see whats going wrong?

 

[spike]

Nip over to Taming The Saxophone
You'll find an enormous amount of really helpful info about playing the blues and improvising over the basic I | IV | V blues chord changes.

 

[Jez Watson]

if on the cd he says its in C then if you are playing tenor you are in D, if alto you are in A

 

[Pete Thomas]

Yes, I didn't realise we were talking about transposition

See here:

Saxophone Transposition chart and transposing information

 

[kevgermany]

I think it's a few things mixed:

Transposition
Chord progressions/scales mixed
Jazz progression (2nd) mixed in.