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Tuning - Major Diatonic, Part 18 (2nd Position, IV Chord)

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Mon, 02/14/2011 - 08:17
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The IV7 Chord in 2nd Position is the same as the I7 Chord in 1st Position. One easy way to think about the IV7 Chord is to blow when it comes... it literally is every blow note plus 3' and 10"+... this makes it easy! More info below...

IV7 Chord
C E G Bb

IV7 Chord Blues Scale
- C Eb (E-flat) F Gb G Bb C

First Octave: 1+ (2+) 2" 2' 2 3' 4+
This is fairly complete, we're just missing the flat-3rd.

Second Octave: 4+ (5+) 5 6+ 7+
No bluesy notes (flat-3rd, flat-5th and flat-7th) are available, so essentially there is no blues scale in this range.

Third Octave: 7+ 8'+ 9 9'+ 9+ 10"+ 10+
This octave is complete.

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