4.2 – Exercises 3 & 4: Line Analysis

Ex. 3 – Here, the 8th-note line has two repeated notes before it begins to descend.
This is our first technique where we add a note that wasn’t in the original line.

This time, we’ll add an extra note between the repeated ones.
That extra note is the next scale note below (from the blues scale).

Here’s another example where I use this trick on nearly every note of the scale.

Ex. 4 – This example shows three variations of transforming a blues scale.

In bar 2, we add one triplet. In bar 3, we add two triplets.
In bar 4, we add three triplets. (The last line is descending so it loops smoothly back to bar 1.)

If you want to explore this concept further, experiment starting the blues scale on different notes.
Here’s an example.