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The “blues”
is the ideal educational playground for players in their early stages of
development. It doesn’t take a lot of time to get a basic grip on the
pentatonic scale and a few I-IV-V progressions before we’re off and running
building up our chops and learning how to solo, improvise, and comp.
Eventually though, we all hit the proverbial “rut” where we grow tired of
playing the same old same old and thirst for insight to help us “juice” up
our blues.
Blues waters can run plenty deep technically and harmonically as evidenced
by Robben Ford, Scott Henderson, Greg Koch, David "Fuze" Fiuczynski and Mike Stern to name a few. Sure, there’s a lot of bends, blue
notes and pentatonic happening - and the progressions are still pretty
straightforward - but the lines are very sophisticated and fresh. Juiced
Blues examines some of the deeper qualities of this style and will introduce
you to a whole new way of thinking about and playing the blues.
 Recording
artist, stunt guitarist and TrueFire’s resident professor of the “deep,”
Chris Buono guides you through the application of superimposed m7b5
arpeggios, modal pentatonics, melodic minor modes, symmetrical diminished
scales, chord fragments, melodic contrary motion, and the Diamond theory for
juicing up your blues soloing and comping.
Buono presents Juiced Blues across five sections,
each examining a variety of harmonic and expressive concepts. You'll work
with a different blues rhythm track in each section, over which you'll learn
a "juiced" solo and a "juiced" comp, which Chris breaks down in meticulous
detail. You'll
 walk
away with enough "juice" to last your blues for quite sometime. But the
theoretical and harmonic mind dump alone is worth the price of admission.
SECTION 1
Super Dom Blues: Chris kicks things
off with Super Dom Blues, as in "superimposed dominant" blues, where you'll
learn how to play secondary melodic ideas over primary harmony by playing
superimposed m7b5 arpeggios and a lone minor pentatonic scale over a
textbook I-IV-V in G. Chris also walks you through the "Diamond Theory" in
this series and shows you how to apply it when comping.
SECTION 2
M&M Blues: In this series, you'll learn how to take the underlying structure
of a pentatonic scale and modulate its properties to produce fresh sounding
options. Buono shows you how to
organize specific key notes from relative, yet evocative sounding 7-tone
modes into 5-note formulae to produce "very hip alternative pentatonic
scales" to be played over a minor blues.
SECTION 3
Fuzy the Lydian-Loader: With a tip of the hat to David "Fuze" Fiuczynski,
this series explores more of an
outside approach for "juicing" up your blues. Chris shows you how to apply
the Lydian Dominant scale - spelled 1 2 3 #4 5 6 b7 – and solo both
horizontally and vertically with this versatile fourth mode of the Melodic
minor. You’ll also learn how to construct applicable chord diamonds for
comping.
SECTION 4
Blues for Symmy: In this series, Chris has you working with a 12-bar blues
in D that has been "super-juiced with the intellectually satisfying
symmetrical diminished scale." Also known as the half-whole scale, this
octatonic scale will serve as the template for both melodic soloing (albeit
the focus will be on one of the two dim7 arpeggios nested within the scale)
and harmonic comping ideas.
SECTION 5
Altered Stormy: This final series borrows the changes from the iconic
blues standard over which you will apply all of the "juiced" approaches from
the previous four, plus! Superimposed min7b5 arpeggios, symmetrical
diminished scales, half step approach chords, chord fragments and 'melodic
contrary motion' where the lines that are being played go in the opposite
direction that the harmony is going.
Ready to step up your blues game texturally and harmonically? Juiced Blues
is likely the elixir you’ve been thirsting for. The playing examples alone
will feed your blues bag with a bagful of fresh moves, but the theoretical
knowledge Buono passes on will feed you for life.
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WHAT YOU GET
Juiced Blues is
optimized for intermediate to advanced players and features 185 minutes
of video instruction. Additional learning materials include practice
rhythm tracks, text commentary, tab, standard notation and Power Tab so
you can see, hear and play along with the tab and notation at any tempo,
without change in pitch.
ORDER OPTIONS
DATA-DVD and Download
formats include complete interactive video course (Windows and Mac
compatible) with
TrueFire's multi-media lesson player,
which features PIP, full-screen, slow motion, looping, keyboard
shortcuts and other handy controls. Course is also available in its
entirety on TrueFire TV for Level 2 and Level 3 students.
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