Learn to Improvise!

When you improvise, you make up your own melody. Here is how to improvise with the blues scale, using Jam and Jelly Blues.

Jam and Jelly Blues

Learn how to play the 12-bar blues! Next week, we will start improvising.

Waving Flag

One of my favourite songs from K'naan. It was the graduation song for our school a couple of years ago, and the official song of the FIFA World Cup in 2010. The chords move slowly and are quite simple: D, G, B minor, and A7. You can also sing along with K'naan.

D Major Scale

Review how to play the D major scale. For all you hot-shots out there, I also teach you how to play in thirds. This means you add the note that is 2 steps above in between each scale note. Don't worry, I go slowly. And you can always rewind.

Regular D scale: D-E-F#-G-A-B-C#-D

In thirds: D-F#-E-G-F#-A-G-B-A-C#-B-D-C#-E-D-

Back down: D-B-C#-A-B-G-A-F#-G-E-F#-D-E-C#-D

Or think of it in numbers: 1-3-2-4-3-5-4-6-5-7-6-8-7-9-8