We started with 12 Bar Blues.
With blues music ….you say something and then you say it again in a different way.
Pentatonic Scales 4 to 5 to F7 to Octive (a root note riff) is pentatonic scale.
Target notes have a root to an octive.
Playing open is not always your best option. (The best mandolin players play in the middle of the instrument.
Playing open isn’t necessarily the best alternative. What is a flatted 7?. What is its relation to the root note?
Need to stay focusing on target notes.
Blues is about scales, chord progressions, target notes, and improvising.
To be able to do all that, you need to put all this stuff together and to think out of the box.
Homework: Practice 4 to 5 flated 7 8 8 riff
2nd variation was a flatted 3rd
Then a Call and answer by varying the riff.
Moral of the story: We have to start learning to play up the neck.
Find your 1s 4s and 5s, find your target notes, find your octives. Practice to the drum track understanding your target notes.
