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Essentials: Riffin' Jazz Blues

Melodic Phrasing & Riffs for Jazz Blues Guitar Soloing

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Essentials: Riffin' Jazz Blues
Frank Vignola

Frank Vignola

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blues, jazz, jazz blues

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About this course

Players like Howard Roberts, Herb Ellis, and Charlie Christian were masters of playing melodic riffs over jazz blues changes. It also happens to be one of the easiest and most effective ways to approach soloing and improvisation — no complicated harmony or chord fingerings to think about and no complicated harmony or chord fingerings to think about.

Frank Vignola’s Riffin’ Jazz Blues edition of Essentials reveals Frank’s personal approach for playing melodic riffs and improvising, over jazz blues changes.

”Every guitarist should know how to play through a few jazz blues tunes and one of the most effective ways to play through the changes of a Jazz Blues is by playing melodic riffs.

It’s one of my favorite ways to play Jazz Blues and I’m excited to share some of my own riff-based approaches with you right here in this course.

We’ll work through ten riff-based Jazz Blues performance studies together. Each study highlights a different riffing jazz blues approach over a different set of changes in a different key.

I’ll break each down for you in detail so you can get it under your fingers and you’ll have all of TrueFire’s learning tools to work with along the way. Playing your way through the course is going to be a lot of fun, and it’ll definitely help take your Jazz Blues game to the next level.”

Frank designed the range of 10 soloing performance studies to cover the most popular jazz blues chord progressions, from traditional jazz to bebop to soul jazz.

Frank 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 performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools 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 of the backing tracks are also included to work with on your own.

Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with Frank Vignola!

What you'll learn

  • Navigate 10 different jazz blues chord progressions
  • Execute syncopated rhythms and off-beat phrasing
  • Play melodic riffs over jazz blues progressions
  • Use sixth intervals melodically over blues changes
  • Sing and internalize swing rhythm patterns
Release date: 08/05/2021 • 1h 03m runtime
intermediateelectric guitarrhythm
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Sample lessons
Fifth to Fifth in Bb
Fifth to Fifth in Bb
Overview
Fifth to Fifth in Bb
Fifth to Fifth in Bb
Performance
Fifth to Fifth in Bb
Fifth to Fifth in Bb
Breakdown
On Two in G
On Two in G
Performance

What's included

32 lessons • 10 charts • 10 Jam Tracks

Essentials: Riffin' Jazz Blues
Hi, I’m Frank Vignola. Welcome to this ‘Riffin’ Jazz Blues’ edition of Essentials.

Every guitarist should know how to play through a few jazz blues tunes and one of the most effective ways to play through the changes of a Jazz Blues is by playing melodic riffs. Players like Howard Roberts, Herb Ellis, and Charlie Christian were masters of this approach, and it’s one of my favorite ways to play Jazz Blues, no complicated harmony or chord fingerings to think about. I’m excited to share some of my own riff-based approaches with you right here in this course.

We’ll work through ten riff-based Jazz Blues performance studies together. Each study highlights a different riffing jazz blues approach over a different set of changes in a different key. I’ll break each down for you in detail so you can get it under your fingers AND you’ll have all of TrueFire’s learning tools to work with along the way.

Each of the ten studies were designed to highlight the most popular jazz blues chord progressions from traditional jazz to bebop and everything in between.

Playing your way through this course is going to be a lot of fun, and it’ll definitely help take your Jazz Blues game to the next level. Grab your guitar, and let’s get riffin!
One Note Change in C
Study number one is a Blues in the Key of C Major. The riff will only change one note between the 1 and the 4 chord so keep an ear out for that!
One Note Change in C
Study number one is a Blues in the Key of C Major. The riff will only change one note between the 1 and the 4 chord so keep an ear out for that!
One Note Change in C
Study number one is a Blues in the Key of C Major. The riff will only change one note between the 1 and the 4 chord so keep an ear out for that!
Fifth to Fifth in Bb
Study number two is a Blues in the key of B flat. It will have 3 measures of Bb, 1 measure of Bb dominant 7to the 4 chord Ee, back to the 1 chord, then 2-5-1.
Fifth to Fifth in Bb
Study number two is a Blues in the key of B flat. It will have 3 measures of Bb, 1 measure of Bb dominant 7to the 4 chord Ee, back to the 1 chord, then 2-5-1.
Fifth to Fifth in Bb
Study number two is a Blues in the key of B flat. It will have 3 measures of Bb, 1 measure of Bb dominant 7to the 4 chord Ee, back to the 1 chord, then 2-5-1.

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Reviews

9 results

Dave

07/20/23

Helpful basic intro for rockers

Deliberately kept at a very simple level, certainly no challenge for intermediate rockers or better, but that's understandable given the aims of the course. I figured out most of the scales/arpeggios for myself but it would have been useful to have some more explanations and some suggestions for other situations to which the concepts can be transfered.

Ohio5665

Verified buyer

12/01/22

Essentials: Riffin’ Jazz Blues

Great ideas and concepts for jazz blues!

Joël

11/11/21

Very helpfull !

Frank delivers a very melodical approach to jazz blues. Learn these riffs and use them as a guide to compose/play your own lines.

Tom943

Verified buyer

10/26/21

Great Lesson

Franks lessons are always great, very precise instructions and easy to follow. This is the third lesson I've purchased of his.

stergulc

Verified buyer

10/24/21

Essentials: Riffin’ Jazz Blues

Excellent course to get you started on playing jazz phrases quickly without all the jazz theory. Fun to learn.

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