If you’re ever stuck for ideas, this is a really good place to start. When you flatten the seventh note, you’ll play a B flat instead of a B. You can do this in any other key such as C-major too. This is called the Mixolydian Mode, which is used a lot in Rock & Roll as well. Flatten the seventh note, in other words G major, all on white keys. When you’re trying to develop a blues riff, start with a major scale such as G major and change just one note in the chord. If you’d told Mozart that years into the future, people would be playing music like the blues, he’d probably have told you that was not possible but here we are, and it sounds just great.
The two worlds constantly meet to produce this wonderful soulful music. Part of the beauty of the blues scales is that they integrate very well with the standard major scales. There’s a big misconception that to play the blues well, you need to stick with a blues scales but that’s not actually true. Keep practising this until you play it really smoothly, then you can improvise over the top with the right hand. In the video, I start with a 12-bar blues in G major to take you through the left-hand pattern first. And while it is not difficult at all, playing the blues still involves a fair bit of practice to ensure the co-ordination of your left and right hand is integrated. Mind you, you still have to know what to do, what the structure of the blues is, or your music will not sound very good. Playing the blues involves a lovely mixture of combinations and allows you a lot of freedom to improvise.
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