Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

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Exercise 16.5—Class Exercise


Improvise a melody to a 12-bar blues progression in C major; perform this for the class.
There are only three rules:



  • Play notes of the scales that have been notated.

  • Always maintain a steady beat. (If a “wrong” note is played, do not stop.)

  • For the bass, play the 12-bar blues progression. (You may also use Track #106.)



  1. Notate the triads using a C major blues progression. The first measure is done for you.

  2. Using the blues scale patterns shown in the box below, notate the blues scale of your choice (or the
    instructor’s) on the staff below for the tonic, subdominant, and dominant keys.


Blues scale on tonic: C

Blues scale on subdominant: F

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The 12-bar bluespattern may use just the primary triads of the scale: I,IV,V.The melody may use a variety of blues scales
including the five-note (pentatonic) scale, the six-note (hexatonic) scale, or ten-note chromatic scale.
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