Playing 5th Chord of C Major Blues Scale on Piano

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Summary: Learn how to play blues scales and how to read and play the 5th chord for C major in this free music video on playing blues on piano in C major.

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Playing 5th Chord of C Major Blues Scale on Piano

Now we're going to go over our 5 chord. If we start on C again, we start here. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and we have our G7 here. No flats, no sharps. Real easy scale. We're going to do 1, 3, 5, and then 1, 4, 6 again. We're going to from 5, 4, 1. With our blue scale, 5, 4, 1, 5. You can use your G7 scale to improvise over it, or you can simply use your blues scale. This is a couple of ideas to help you get moving over the blues.