A lesson in the common practice of simplifying the music notation for shuffle music in order to make the score easier to read…
Category Archive: Blues School
Before we even begin to delve into comping, scales, and blues harmony, it is absolutely essential to have a deep understanding of Blues Rhythm…
Welcome to the first and most important lesson in Minor Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony…
This harmonically sophisticated 12-bar Blues variation combines many of the ideas we have already studied–creating lots of harmonic interest and sense of forward motion…
This commonly used 12-bar Blues variation substitutes a full turnaround based on secondary dominants V7/II-V7/V-V7 in the last two bars…
This commonly used 12-bar Blues variation inserts a secondary dominant A7 (V7/ii) in bar 8 to feed the Dm7 (ii7) in bar 9…
This commonly used 12 bar Blues variation substitutes a ii7-V7 progression for the V7 chord in bars 9 and 10…
This commonly used 12-bar Blues variation inserts the V chord in bar 12 in order to create harmonic tension that sets up the next chorus…
A commonly used variation substitutes a IV7 chord in bar 2…
This variation creates harmonic motion by inserting an F7 chord in bar 10…