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Blues & Boogie Woogie School

  • Blues
  • August 11, 2019
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Learning Goals To master commonly-used blues forms To add standard comping patterns to your repertoire To understand the big three

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Blues & Boogie Woogie School: Intro/Turnaround #3

  • Blues
  • January 13, 2019
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A good intro builds excitement and establishes expectations before jumping into a tune, while a turnaround (typically the last two

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Blues & Boogie Woogie School: Intro/Turnaround #2

  • Blues
  • January 9, 2019
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A good intro builds excitement and establishes expectations before jumping into a tune, while a turnaround (typically the last two

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Blues & Boogie Woogie School: Triplet Riff #3

  • Blues
  • January 6, 2019
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A Riff is a melodic-rhythmic snippet that is repeated again and again over the chord changes, a very simple but effective way

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Blues & Boogie Woogie School: Shuffle/Swing Rhythm & Notation

  • Blues
  • January 5, 2019
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Did you know that it is a common practice to simplify the music notation for shuffle/swing music in order to

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Blues & Boogie Woogie School: Triplet Riff #2

  • Blues
  • January 4, 2019
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A variation of Triplet Riff #1…. Note the simple three note structure (b3-3-1) played on each chord. Such minor 3rd-major 3rd