🚨 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.
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Cool lesson. It turns into an etude once you get the chords down. Spend some time on this!
? Lesson 1: Building a Solid Time Foundation With a Metronome
? Goals:
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Cool Way To Voice V7
Simple example of a way to study harmony. Learn it and use it for more complex progessions. It usually almost always works, but sometimes it doesn't.
In Part 4, we take the 7th chord outlines from the previous lesson and extend them into 9ths, while also adding alterations and inversions on dominant chords. The result is a more melodic, colorful, and expressive soloing vocabulary—still grounded in chord structure, but reaching toward the sound of bebop and beyond.
I think of modal playing as when you hang on one chord for a long time!
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 5
So far in this series, we’ve focused on building a strong comping foundation:
• Guide tones in the left hand
• Smooth voicing movement
• Consistent time and rhythm
This week, we shift the focus toward line development.
👉 Using 3rds and 7ths, we begin outlining the blues with single-note lines, helping you connect harmony in a clear and musical way.