Can someone help me with the fingering for the pentatonic blues scale up and down, say 2 octaves or so?
1234 12 1234 12 is fine going up.
but attempting to go down from High C down 2 octaves starting with finger 3 is weird, because it (I found this info on http://www.learn-piano.org/blues-scale.html) tells me to then play:
C Bb G Gb F Eb C with
3 2 1 4 3 2 1
Maybe it's just me, but playing Gb with finger 4 is not at all comfortable!
Fingering for Pentatonic Blues scale?
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Count_fuzzball Count_fuzzball https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=182471
- KVRian
- 765 posts since 9 Jun, 2008 from Ireland
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- KVRist
- 179 posts since 11 Feb, 2008
1. You only play C? Each one will have a different fingering.Count_fuzzball wrote:Can someone help me with the fingering for the pentatonic blues scale up and down, say 2 octaves or so?
1234 12 1234 12 is fine going up.
but attempting to go down from High C down 2 octaves starting with finger 3 is weird, because it (I found this info on http://www.learn-piano.org/blues-scale.html) tells me to then play:
C Bb G Gb F Eb C with
3 2 1 4 3 2 1
Maybe it's just me, but playing Gb with finger 4 is not at all comfortable!
2. You only play them as scales? It's helpful to jump around the tones of the scale, so that will vary the fingering too.
3. 1 and 3:
C Eb F F# G Bb C Bb G F# F Eb
1 3 1 3 1 3 4 3 1 3 1 3
It's not a "classical" scale, and there's no need to use a "classical" fingering on it (or classical scales for that matter).
Fingering depends largely on the musical context.
If you're going to use more fingers, I agree with the one from learn-piano., though you could 1 3 4 for G Bb C as I did.
4. Now for the LH
Steve
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- KVRist
- 133 posts since 23 May, 2006
Suggested fingering is just to get your speed and finger movement down. If I were to do a riff around an inversion of the C Blues scale (F-F#-G-Bb-C), I'd probably leave my thumb around F. The specific note doesn't need to paired with a certain finger every time.