Emanuel Hedberg

Sixteen-Bar Blues - Help the Poor

Added 2023-05-22 12:21:49 +0000 UTC

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Backing track for intro solo can be downloaded. File name: 16 bar blues backing track D Minor.mp3

Here is a link to the backing track used during the second take.

Hi!

Here is a 16 bar blues solo in the key of D minor.

There is a scale/chord explanation available for download.
File name: Analysis.pdf

As usual, you can find the right hand notation in the guitar pro files and pdf file.

p = thumb
i = index
m = middle
a = ring
c = pinky/little finger

Chord Progression & Scales

I have two different lessons available about the minor blues progression

I talk about different scale options - in one of the lessons above - for each chord that you'll find in this 16 bar blues progression.

The pictures down below are available for download as pdf files.

Lessons

In order to understand the analysis I recommend you watch/read the following lessons/texts down below.

Altered Scale

In jazz, the altered scale (altered dominant scale) is a seven-note scale that is a dominant scale where all non-essential tones have been altered. This means that it comprises the three irreducibly essential tones that define a dominant seventh chord, which are root, major third, and minor seventh and that all other tones have been altered. These are:

the fifth is altered to a ♭5 and a ♯5
the ninth is altered to a ♭9 and a ♯9
the eleventh is altered to a ♯11 (equivalent to a ♭5)
the thirteenth is altered to a ♭13 (equivalent to a ♯5)

Source (wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_scale

Bebop scale

The bebop scale is a great scale to use if you want to add more chromatics to your lines.

I have a lesson about the 8-note bebop scale:

The Eight-Note Dominant Bebop Scale

The standard bebop scale consists of eight different notes.
Bebop Scale is a term referring to common seven-note scales that have an added chromatic passing note. In general, bebop scales consist of traditional scales with an added passing tone, and when the scale is begun on a chord tone and on the downbeat, all other chord tones will also fall on downbeats. The remaining tones in the scale occurring on the upbeat.

The Dominant (mixolydian) Bebop Scale has a chromatic passing between the root (1) and the minor 7th (b7).

Remember that it is extremely important to play the chord tones on downbeats when you use the Bebop scale.

The 10-note-dominant-bebop scale is the mixolydian mode but with an added note between the root and the minor 7th, an added note between the major 3rd and the major 2nd, and an added note between the major 2nd and the root.

Chord Tones

Here's a few lessons regarding chord tones.

Blues Lesson - SPICE UP Of The PENTATONIC scale with CHORD TONES

How To Mix Chord Tones & Scales

Simple" Trick How To Outline The Chord Progression

Chromatic scale

I have a lesson about chromaticism. Click the link down below

Chromaticism (Introduction)

The chromatic scale or twelve-tone scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone, also known as a half-step, above or below its adjacent pitches. As a result, in 12-tone equal temperament (the most common tuning in Western music), the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches. Thus, there is only one chromatic scale.