Playing D Minor Blues Scales on Piano

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Summary: Learn how to play minor blues scales for the piano and how to read minor scales in D major in this free music video on playing blues on piano in D major.

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Playing D Minor Blues Scales on Piano

Now we're going to do our minor blues. To do that, we're going to take our three 7 scales we learned and we're going to flat the 3rd in each scale. If we start on D. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Instead of this, we're going to take the 3rd and make it this. Now, D has no sharps. Now, we have our C chord. Now we have a flat in our G chord. Our 4 chord is G, and we're going to have a flat in there. We're going to have our flat right here on our 3rd. Then our A chord is just going to have one sharp now, and you're going to have this C natural right here. You go over the 3 scales we learned and flat the 3rd. We still use our D blues up here. We're going to run through minor blues. Now 4 minor. 5, 4, 1. That's your basic minor blues in D.