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This is a great kind of thing for getting people into music. There's a piano in my local pub and when people say they "can't play piano" I'll play a 2-5-1 in C and tell them to hit any of the white notes. People love that they can make up their own tunes having never played before.



And then you show them the black blues note...


I was miserable for most of my piano lessons (I learned to sheet read well – I become a fairly adept piano-playing robot – but I never sort of "figured out" music more generally.) That said, one lesson my teacher played a basic blues chord progression and told me to hit anything on the blues G scale however I wanted. That was one of the most fun times I've had making music ever. Well, the only time that has been fun, actually.


If you want to do this with someone who doesn't play, the experienced person can play in Eb and then the black notes make an Eb blues scale.


I do this too! D dorian works great as well.


The pedant in me is screaming -

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Here I was doing barre chords on the 2nd fret, 5th fret, and 1st fret on my guitar and wondering why it didn't sound good. ;)




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