🚨 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:

Here’s my rendition of Etude #18 by David Friedman. Any comments, questions, or feedback is much appreciated!

Here’s a recording I got of Etude #17 that I got Sunday on the return to Temple. Any comments, questions, and feedback is greatly appreciated!

Pedaling Exercise

David Friedman Dampening and Pedaling Etude #18

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.

My Rendition of Friedmans Dampening Etude. 5

Friedman 9 Dampening Etude

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…