🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 4
Up to this point, we’ve stayed in F and focused on building a strong foundation:
• Clear guide tone movement
• Controlled upper voice motion
• Consistent Charleston rhythm
This week, we take a big step forward.
👉 We move to the key of Bâ™, one of the most common blues keys.
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 3
Over the first two weeks, we focused on building a solid foundation:
• Clear guide tone movement in the left hand
• A stable and controlled upper voice
• Consistent Charleston rhythm
This week, we start introducing more functional harmonic movement into the blues.
You’ll notice a few important additions:
Dampening and Pedaling
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 2
Last week we built the foundation of our blues comping using guide tones and the Charleston rhythm. The goal was simple: clear harmony and solid time.
This week we’ll start adding a little more movement to the voicings.
Instead of keeping the upper voice mostly static, we’ll move the top note of the chord to create two different sounds for the same harmony. Even a small change in the top note can dramatically change how the voicing feels.
Hello! I have attached a link to a youtube playlist which contains all of my lesson material for the last month. Thanks
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp2ia_j36ngaDEfKtQhc4BOtiwMqQStjG&si…
🚨 New Series Alert – Play a Great Blues in 3 Months
Back in January at the World Vibes Congress, I shared materials from my Working on Time series — focusing on pulse, clarity, and guide tone awareness on the vibraphone
A lot of that material centered around one idea:
If your time and your guide tones are clear, the music makes sense.
This new 15-week track builds directly on that foundation — but now we apply it to something practical:
🎵 Playing a great blues.
This is some old great stuff!
