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Summary: Rock tune rooted in classical works. Learn how to add a blues beat to classical music in this free video on how to play classical music on rock instruments.

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Scott Smith Scott Smith has been a professional musician since the age of fourteen. Throughout his career, he has been both a musician and teacher. Scott as played in sou... read more

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Adding Blues Beat to Classical Music

Hi, I'm Scott Smith with Expert Village. Right now we're going to talk about blues and we're going to talk about how we can take a classical piece and blue's it up. Basically blues is played many times blues is played in minor keys. A minor and a major key are two different types of chords. This is a major key and you'll hear how happy it sounds. Happy. You change the third note and you go down just a half step and it sounds sad. That's sad, that's happy. Blues is done primarily in the sadder tones. So if we took a song that we played a little earlier, a piece by Bach. Well it's already in a minor key the sad sound. So if we change it around and use rhythms, what we call "anticipated rhythms" which a musician might call quantities to give more of a swing or blues sound, and that only talking about the rhythm itself. It could sound like this. And there you go!

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