Jazz Up Your Blues
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About This Lesson
This lesson will help you to get out of the old habits when your soloing. Instead of getting stuck in the pentatonic scales, you'll be given the tools that enables you to add beautiful Jazz flavours to your Blues solos!
The standard Blues form
The Jazz Blues form
Building tension between chords
How to use the diminished scale in the blues
How to use the diminished arpeggios in the blues
How to use the bebop scale in the blues
How to use the melodic minor scale/modes in the blues
Learning about the altered sounds in the blues
Learning the "Blues Jazz Solo" More about the lesson:
70 minute video lesson
2 camera angles for a clear view of both hands
14 page curriculum with describing texts and detailed TABs and notation
Backing Tracks
This is the perfect lesson for everyone who wants to take their blues playing to the next level! Have fun!
Questions & Answers
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- PPhil Griffiths 51mo ago
Hi Emil, l love this lesson (big Robben Ford fan), but I'm confused why the diminished arpeggio starts on the 2nd note of the scale. Normally, an arpeggio starts from the root (or 3rd, 5th, 7th) doesn't it....?
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- NNat Defriend 63mo ago
Hi there! I am interested to know which thumb pick you use for your technique. I use a normal plectrum and think I am limiting the potential use of my other fingers by doing so! Nat
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- Ddpmcleod 64mo ago
Hi Emil, This may be a difficult question for you to answer, but I'm wondering if you have any advice about how to transition from "knowing" what to play when you're improvising over chords to actually playing without having to think so hard about it. I've been watching your "Jazz Blues" video https://www.proguitar.com/academy/lessons/jazz-up-your-blues and can play the solo, the scales, arpeggios, etc. In my current practice routine, I take a few bars (e.g. G7-C7-G7-Dm7-G7-C7) and try to find other licks to play over those chords. The goal would be to eventually be able to play something semi-original over these chords, but I'm stuck at this stage of "overthinking" and consequently not being able to generate ideas or licks in time and in the moment. After watching your interview https://www.proguitar.com/academy/lessons/exclusive-content with Joe Robinson and hearing his answer to your question about improvising where he said he's trying not to think but rather to "hear melodies" and rely more on intuition, I'm wondering if achieving this goal comes after years of internalizing the many scales/arpeggios/licks you learn and practicing them over a backing track consistently. Anyway, I'm wondering if you have any tips on what I can start incorporating into my practice routine in order to go from understanding what I can play to actually improvising in an original way over some chords in time. Thanks! -Dan
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