Modesto High School Music Department
Welcome to the home of the
Modesto High School
Music Department's
Website
  • Home Page
  • Classes
    • Band >
      • Pep Band and Christmas Music
      • Modesto High School Home Page
    • Orchestra >
      • Orchestra Christmas Quartet
    • PAA
    • Guitar
  • Parade Info
  • Fundraising
  • MHS Music Teachers
    • About Mr. Cover
    • About Mr. Serpa
  • Practice/Review
  • Wrong2
  • White Christmas

12 Bar Blues - learning to solo.

Learning to solo with 5 notes - the scale is called a Penta-tonic scale.

Click on the audio file below to start the background track for our blues song. You'll hear a hi-hat count you off.

Using just the 5 notes in a Pentatonic Scale, try to make up a solo that would fit our song.
Start easy - just quarter notes - then progress to using eighth notes - then progress to using notes that are either sharp or flat or NOT in the 5 note pattern. Always try to keep it so it sounds good. We're not trying to scare away cats... :)

Picture
Proudly powered by Weebly