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Jazz, Blues & Boogaloos
Great course by an excellent guitarist and teacher. Lots of concepts and ideas in this one for playing in a organ trio setting.
Jazz, Blues, & Boogaloos: Lead
Learn How to Craft Meaningful, Musical Jazz Blues Guitar Solos
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Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Wes Montgomery --- all these great guitarists made their mark back in the ‘60s playing a soulful, groove-infused style that melded jazz, blues, gospel, and R&B.
The smaller organ trio format and relatively simple chord changes allowed for soulful improvised solos, which is why this style of jazz, blues, and boogaloos is as fun to play and is as popular today as it was back in the day. Your master class on this timeless genre of blues and jazz is Sean McGowan’s Lead Edition of Jazz, Blues & Boogaloos.
”This course celebrates the classic sound of jazz organ trio by exploring a number of different rhythmic approaches, grooves, and harmonic progressions. We're going to look at building meaningful and musical solos using rhythmic and textural ideas, repetition, theme building, melodic contour, and then building intensity with harmonic ideas and concepts. This approach is more organic than simply analyzing which scales and/or patterns to use. While that has its place, you'll find that exploring ideas in musical terms, will result in more interesting - more three-dimensional - solo improvisations.”
Jazz-up your blues or blues-up your jazz — either way, you’ll have a blast playing through 10 jazz, blues and boogaloo soloing performance studies with Sean.
You’ll expand your blues vocabulary with a number of different concepts but your primary focus will be learning how to craft meaningful, musical solos without thinking about scales or modes.
You’ll work on a variety of blues formats and feels, including boogaloos, straight-ahead swing, blues in three-four, ballads, shuffles, and classic funk grooves.
”We'll also explore dynamics and how your touch goes a long way in creating your tone, as exemplified by the great organ trio guitarists such as Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and Grant Green. If you haven't already, be sure to check out these three giants of jazz guitar, as well as classic players such as George Benson and Pat Martino (their early organ trio recordings), Ray Crawford, Thornel Schwartz, Quentin Warren, and contemporary players such as Peter Bernstein, Bruce Forman, Jimmy Bruno, Paul Bollenback - and many others!"
Bonus! You’ll be soloing over killer backing tracks recorded live in the studio with a pro rhythm section including drums and B3 organ.
Sean will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the key demonstrations and performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tool to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All the backing tracks are included to work with own your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s boogaloo with Sean McGowan!
The smaller organ trio format and relatively simple chord changes allowed for soulful improvised solos, which is why this style of jazz, blues, and boogaloos is as fun to play and is as popular today as it was back in the day. Your master class on this timeless genre of blues and jazz is Sean McGowan’s Lead Edition of Jazz, Blues & Boogaloos.
”This course celebrates the classic sound of jazz organ trio by exploring a number of different rhythmic approaches, grooves, and harmonic progressions. We're going to look at building meaningful and musical solos using rhythmic and textural ideas, repetition, theme building, melodic contour, and then building intensity with harmonic ideas and concepts. This approach is more organic than simply analyzing which scales and/or patterns to use. While that has its place, you'll find that exploring ideas in musical terms, will result in more interesting - more three-dimensional - solo improvisations.”
Jazz-up your blues or blues-up your jazz — either way, you’ll have a blast playing through 10 jazz, blues and boogaloo soloing performance studies with Sean.
You’ll expand your blues vocabulary with a number of different concepts but your primary focus will be learning how to craft meaningful, musical solos without thinking about scales or modes.
You’ll work on a variety of blues formats and feels, including boogaloos, straight-ahead swing, blues in three-four, ballads, shuffles, and classic funk grooves.
”We'll also explore dynamics and how your touch goes a long way in creating your tone, as exemplified by the great organ trio guitarists such as Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and Grant Green. If you haven't already, be sure to check out these three giants of jazz guitar, as well as classic players such as George Benson and Pat Martino (their early organ trio recordings), Ray Crawford, Thornel Schwartz, Quentin Warren, and contemporary players such as Peter Bernstein, Bruce Forman, Jimmy Bruno, Paul Bollenback - and many others!"
Bonus! You’ll be soloing over killer backing tracks recorded live in the studio with a pro rhythm section including drums and B3 organ.
Sean will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the key demonstrations and performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tool to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All the backing tracks are included to work with own your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s boogaloo with Sean McGowan!
What you'll learn
- Execute block chord solos with melodic top voice
- Use identical replication technique (repeating phrases in bars 1 and 5)
- Apply tritone substitutions in melodic lines
- Use double stops to add harmonic texture to solos
- Construct a three-chorus blues solo with clear narrative arc
Release date: 10/24/2019 • 2h 57m runtime
Sample lessons
Oatmeal
Overview
Oatmeal
Performance
Oatmeal
Breakdown
Bring It to a Texas Boil
Overview
What's included
33 lessons • 10 charts • 10 Jam Tracks
Jazz, Blues & Boogaloos: Lead Edition
Hi, I'm Sean McGowan, and welcome to this lead edition of Jazz, Blues, and Boogaloos!
This course celebrates the classic sound of jazz organ trio by exploring a number of different rhythmic approaches, grooves, and harmonic progressions. We're going to look at building meaningful and musical solos using rhythmic and textural ideas, repetition, theme building, melodic contour, and then building intensity with harmonic ideas and concepts.
This approach is more organic than simply analyzing which scales and/or patterns to use. While that has its place, you'll find that exploring ideas in musical terms, will result in more interesting - more three-dimensional - solo improvisations.
There are ten progressions to work through, all in different keys, tempos, and styles. We'll look at classic funk, R&B, and boogaloo styles, as well as the Latin and Brazilian influence in 60's organ trios. Of course, we'll play over plenty of blues including a classic Texas shuffle with a twist on the turnaround, standard bebop blues, and a hybrid blues form in 3/4. So come on and grab your guitars, and let's get cooking!
This course celebrates the classic sound of jazz organ trio by exploring a number of different rhythmic approaches, grooves, and harmonic progressions. We're going to look at building meaningful and musical solos using rhythmic and textural ideas, repetition, theme building, melodic contour, and then building intensity with harmonic ideas and concepts.
This approach is more organic than simply analyzing which scales and/or patterns to use. While that has its place, you'll find that exploring ideas in musical terms, will result in more interesting - more three-dimensional - solo improvisations.
There are ten progressions to work through, all in different keys, tempos, and styles. We'll look at classic funk, R&B, and boogaloo styles, as well as the Latin and Brazilian influence in 60's organ trios. Of course, we'll play over plenty of blues including a classic Texas shuffle with a twist on the turnaround, standard bebop blues, and a hybrid blues form in 3/4. So come on and grab your guitars, and let's get cooking!
Playing with Organ Trios
Your sound is your vision, your own personal idea of what "good sound" is. And that works hand-in-hand with your technique and ultimately your personal style. In this section, we'll discuss the basic tools you'll need for a solid, clear jazz guitar tone that will work in an organ trio context. We'll go over choices for guitar, pickups, pedals, and amplifiers that will help you realize your vision and concept of tone.
We'll also explore dynamics and how your touch goes a long way in creating your tone, as exemplified by the great organ trio guitarists such as Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and Grant Green. If you haven't already, be sure to check out these three giants of jazz guitar, as well as classic players such as George Benson and Pat Martino (their early organ trio recordings), Ray Crawford, Thornel Schwartz, Quentin Warren, and contemporary players such as Peter Bernstein, Bruce Forman, Jimmy Bruno, Paul Bollenback - and many others!
We'll also explore dynamics and how your touch goes a long way in creating your tone, as exemplified by the great organ trio guitarists such as Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and Grant Green. If you haven't already, be sure to check out these three giants of jazz guitar, as well as classic players such as George Benson and Pat Martino (their early organ trio recordings), Ray Crawford, Thornel Schwartz, Quentin Warren, and contemporary players such as Peter Bernstein, Bruce Forman, Jimmy Bruno, Paul Bollenback - and many others!
Now Open
Let's kick this course off with a groove inspired by the sounds of 1960's boogaloo! It's inspired by the early recordings of George Benson, which freely mixed the sounds of jazz, R&B, Latin, and rock in an organ trio (plus baritone sax) format. The solo features some blues-jazz lines in the style of Grant Green, which then move to octaves and block chord soloing in the style of Benson and Wes Montgomery.
Now Open
Let's kick this course off with a groove inspired by the sounds of 1960's boogaloo! It's inspired by the early recordings of George Benson, which freely mixed the sounds of jazz, R&B, Latin, and rock in an organ trio (plus baritone sax) format. The solo features some blues-jazz lines in the style of Grant Green, which then move to octaves and block chord soloing in the style of Benson and Wes Montgomery.
Now Open
Let's kick this course off with a groove inspired by the sounds of 1960's boogaloo! It's inspired by the early recordings of George Benson, which freely mixed the sounds of jazz, R&B, Latin, and rock in an organ trio (plus baritone sax) format. The solo features some blues-jazz lines in the style of Grant Green, which then move to octaves and block chord soloing in the style of Benson and Wes Montgomery.
One Block East
This long-form progression features a lot of blues elements, particularly in its use of dominant and minor 7th chords. The solo features lots of opportunities to play straight ahead blues lines mixed with bebop and chord tone lines, plus some ideas incorporating Lydian dominant sounds and triad pairs from the dominant diminished "half-whole" scale.
One Block East
This long-form progression features a lot of blues elements, particularly in its use of dominant and minor 7th chords. The solo features lots of opportunities to play straight ahead blues lines mixed with bebop and chord tone lines, plus some ideas incorporating Lydian dominant sounds and triad pairs from the dominant diminished "half-whole" scale.
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Reviews
8 results
antonello v.
11/29/21
Superbe course
Fantastic course, highly recommended. Sean is "the gentleman on the guitar": taste and great sound
dang4
02/19/21
Another gem from Sean McGowan: Jazz, Blues, & Boogaloos: Lead
Sean McGowan: Jazz, Blues, & Boogaloos: Lead is another outstanding course from an outstanding musician. Clear, concise, practical info that is guaranteed to help you play more musically. Thanks for this!
morningfield
Verified buyer
05/02/20
Thanks !!
rtches
Verified buyer
11/08/19
Sean is, as always, a great teacher.
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