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FREE music lessons from Berklee College of Music
The Songwriters Workshop:MelodyJimmy Kachulis
Lesson 36Major Blues over Progressions
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Major pentatonic blues melodies can be sung over any chord progression in a majorkey. The major blues scale is particularly useful when the chords change quicklymuch easier than matching all those chord tones. But its also used over any chordsthat have a blues color in them (see the Appendix for blues scales and chords).
Hit songs that use the major blues scale over a progression are very common. Thesesongs use the scale over the following types of chord progressions:
One Chord: Hold On, Im Comin, Great Balls of Fire, Midnight Hour
Chords in a Major Key: Heart of Gold, Man in the Mirror, September,Desperado, Crocodile Rock, When a Man Loves a Woman, Beast ofBurden
Fast Chords: Hit Me With Your Best Shot, And When I Die, Soul Man,Believe Me Baby (I Lied), The Way You Do the Things You Do, In theMidnight Hour, Gimme Some Lovin
Blues Chords: Hold On, Im Comin, Boogie On Reggae Woman, PurpleHaze, In a NY Minute (Ronnie McDowell), Bird Dog
Listen
Listen to the first part of Major Blues Over Progressions: Five-Foot-Two (CD 63). Asyou listen, notice that the same C major blues pentatonic melody works over a one-chord groove, various chords in the key of C, blues-colored chords, and a fast chordprogression.
A. Melody Over One Chord
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LESSON 36Major Blues Over Progressions
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L E S S O N 3 6 Major Blues Over Progressions98
B. Melody Over Major-Key Chords
C. Melody Over Blues-Colored Chords
D. Melody Over Fast Progression
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Five - foot two in her
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Listen again, and sing along with the recording. Did you hear how the melody seemsto float above the chords? When you compose a melody by using this scale, youlluse the reverse process. Youll use the scale over any of these types of chord progres-sions.
Writing Exercises
Sing the following exercises along with Rhythm Track 26: Five-Foot-Two (CD 64) orto your original rhythm track using any chords in a major key.
Practice
Reset the lyrics to Five-Foot-Two in three different way using only the notes of themajor pentatonic blues scale.
Five-foot-two in her high-heeled shoesWe all stop and stareBut she struts right on by
Set Your Own Lyric
Create an original lyric, and set it using notes from the major blues scale.
Rewrite the Hits
From the songs you know, find an example of a melody that uses the major bluesscale over chords in a major key. Then create your own major blues setting of thatsongs lyrics over the same chords.
Write a Song
Create a song where the verse uses a chord-tone melody (see units II and III) and thechorus uses a major pentatonic blues melody over a chord progression.
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