7th Chords in Blues Piano

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Paul Becker and I'm going to talk to you today about playing the blues on the piano, some beginner intermediate need to advance information about the blues and I'm doing this for Expert Village. The other important sound in a blues at least when I play it is important to the 7th chords and the 9th chord, you'll see for an example we use a 7th chord in blues on the very first opening measures of the song. Which isn't very common the 7th a lot of times the 7th used too when you're moving to something else but right not at the beginning but we'll inject the 7th chord right into the beginning of a song. Just by comparison here like plain Jane is the sound is without that. (playing piano) Similarly when I go up to the 4th I'm almost playing the 9th chord there if I stay right in that position. Found the G I'm going to be playing the 9th chord too. (playing piano) Here's why I like to throw that D in (playing piano) now these same notes are not only important recording but when you're starting to improvise these are the notes that are really going to distinguish the music in blues. You want to give certain emphasis so for example (playing piano) There's a 7th I'm landing on the 7th using the minor 3rd emphasizing the 7th, using that flat 5th, 7th, flatted 3rd, 7th. (playing piano) So you want to find ways when playing this music to really bring out what's distinctive in music."