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Summary: Learn how to play blues music on the flute from a professional flutist in this free music lesson video about musical instruments and music theory.

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Kiely Griffin Kiely Griffin is a third-year music management and jazz flute student at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, CT. She has previously served as vice pre... read more

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How to Play Blues on the Flute in E Flat

I have now put the E flat blues together and showed you how to play some of the chord progression. The next step is to understand the notes that are used in playing the head and also in playing a solo. Let's look at the notes that we found from the chords all broken down so we can see the notes to be used. We have E flat, F, G flat, G natural, A flat, B flat, C, D flat, D natural, and E flat. These are the basic notes from the E flat major scale adding in the flat third and the flat seventh. These notes are very important in jazz because they alter the major sound making it sound jazzy or bluesy. I will now play these notes for you. You can tell how in E flat we have the flat third and seventh making it sound more blues. This is because they have been flattened out also making it sound depressed which relates to the origins of African American blues music.

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