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Creative Blues Performance
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Creative Blues Performance
The Tastiest Blues Lessons on TrueFire
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About this course
Creative Blues Performance is a collection of TrueFire lessons curated by Guitar Techniques Editor Neville Marten. Neville’s selection of lessons from top TrueFire educators is designed to build on your blues rhythm and lead technique and broaden your breadth of knowledge and ability.
”I’ve selected lessons from Corey Congilio’s 50 Blues Rhythms. We all know how important rhythm guitar is in blues. But even though we spend the vast majority of our time NOT soloing, many people still choose to give their rhythm playing a back seat. Corey Congilio's excellent 50 Blues Rhythms provides you with an instant bag of great accompanying ideas that will make you the guy people want to jam with.
One of the world's classiest blues players, Matt Schofield is brilliant at putting across his ideas in simple to understand sound bytes. Matt has designed his course Blues Speak: Playing The Changes to help you navigate the chords, infusing your blues with jazzy inflections that will make your playing sound cool and sophisticated.
Corey Congilio's Hip Blues: Outside Lines is the perfect follow-up to Matt's 'Changes' course, and takes things a step further. Corey elaborates on the idea of using 'outside' notes to create ear-grabbing licks that bring tension and excitement, before resolving back 'inside' to bring welcome resolution.
Then there’s Josh Smith's Blue Highways. One of today's most exciting guitarists, Josh melds blues, country, jazz, swing and gospel ideas into a style that's both exciting and modern. In this course Josh shares some of his ideas and approaches, perfect for adding to your own repertoire of licks and providing a wealth of 'lightbulb' moments.”
Who better than the top editors of our cherished guitar magazines to lend their eyes, ears and guitar acumen to help guide how we put our precious practice time to optimal use? Thanks Neville!
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 Guitar Techniques Editor Neville Marten’s curated collection of TrueFire lessons!
”I’ve selected lessons from Corey Congilio’s 50 Blues Rhythms. We all know how important rhythm guitar is in blues. But even though we spend the vast majority of our time NOT soloing, many people still choose to give their rhythm playing a back seat. Corey Congilio's excellent 50 Blues Rhythms provides you with an instant bag of great accompanying ideas that will make you the guy people want to jam with.
One of the world's classiest blues players, Matt Schofield is brilliant at putting across his ideas in simple to understand sound bytes. Matt has designed his course Blues Speak: Playing The Changes to help you navigate the chords, infusing your blues with jazzy inflections that will make your playing sound cool and sophisticated.
Corey Congilio's Hip Blues: Outside Lines is the perfect follow-up to Matt's 'Changes' course, and takes things a step further. Corey elaborates on the idea of using 'outside' notes to create ear-grabbing licks that bring tension and excitement, before resolving back 'inside' to bring welcome resolution.
Then there’s Josh Smith's Blue Highways. One of today's most exciting guitarists, Josh melds blues, country, jazz, swing and gospel ideas into a style that's both exciting and modern. In this course Josh shares some of his ideas and approaches, perfect for adding to your own repertoire of licks and providing a wealth of 'lightbulb' moments.”
Who better than the top editors of our cherished guitar magazines to lend their eyes, ears and guitar acumen to help guide how we put our precious practice time to optimal use? Thanks Neville!
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 Guitar Techniques Editor Neville Marten’s curated collection of TrueFire lessons!
What you'll learn
- Play sophisticated chord voicings over a slow minor blues progression
- Apply major/minor substitution for creating tension before chord changes
- Use chord extensions (9ths, 11ths) to create melodic interest in rhythm playing
- Use different picking techniques (pick, fingers, thumb) for varied tonal colors
- Develop solos using harmonic minor scale over altered dominant chords
Release date: 07/07/2021 • 1h 27m runtime
Sample lessons
Good Mood
Rhythm 26
Albert King
Performance: Demo
Bb Jump Blues
Performance
Survivor
Performance
What's included
25 lessons • 13 charts • 11 Jam Tracks
Creative Blues Performance
Creative Blues Performance is a collection of TrueFire lessons curated by Guitar Techniques Editor Neville Marten. Neville’s selection of lessons from top TrueFire educators is designed to build on your blues rhythm and lead technique and broaden your breadth of knowledge and ability.
”I’ve selected lessons from Corey Congilio’s 50 Blues Rhythms. We all know how important rhythm guitar is in blues. But even though we spend the vast majority of our time NOT soloing, many people still choose to give their rhythm playing a back seat. Corey Congilio's excellent 50 Blues Rhythms provides you with an instant bag of great accompanying ideas that will make you the guy people want to jam with.
One of the world's classiest blues players, Matt Schofield is brilliant at putting across his ideas in simple to understand sound bytes. Matt has designed his course Blues Speak: Playing The Changes to help you navigate the chords, infusing your blues with jazzy inflections that will make your playing sound cool and sophisticated.
Corey Congilio's Hip Blues: Outside Lines is the perfect follow-up to Matt's 'Changes' course, and takes things a step further. Corey elaborates on the idea of using 'outside' notes to create ear-grabbing licks that bring tension and excitement, before resolving back 'inside' to bring welcome resolution.
Then there’s Josh Smith's Blue Highways. One of today's most exciting guitarists, Josh melds blues, country, jazz, swing and gospel ideas into a style that's both exciting and modern. In this course Josh shares some of his ideas and approaches, perfect for adding to your own repertoire of licks and providing a wealth of 'lightbulb' moments.”
Who better than the top editors of our cherished guitar magazines to lend their eyes, ears and guitar acumen to help guide how we put our precious practice time to optimal use? Thanks Neville!
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 Guitar Techniques Editor Neville Marten’s curated collection of TrueFire lessons!
Good Mood
Truth be told, I never used to play 6th chords. I still don't very often. They have a certain place and you'll usually find them in uptempo swing tunes.
One of the most popular swing tunes ever is called In The Mood by Glen Miller. I'll tell you a quick story about that in the explanation portion of the video.
I want to mention that I'll be showing you a diminished chord as well as a minor 7 chord. I'll spend a little time describing those but, we'll dig deeper into those as the video progresses.
Swing away!
One of the most popular swing tunes ever is called In The Mood by Glen Miller. I'll tell you a quick story about that in the explanation portion of the video.
I want to mention that I'll be showing you a diminished chord as well as a minor 7 chord. I'll spend a little time describing those but, we'll dig deeper into those as the video progresses.
Swing away!
Everyday I'm Shufflin'
This is a great shuffle that incorporates some 3rds and 7ths riffs. I think this is a great example of what I spoke about in the previous text. I’m creating melodies with riffs and creating interesting guitar parts with everything we’ve learned so far.
That's not only learning but, applying! Weaving in and out of riffs, 7ths and 9ths etc. really spruce things up. Let’s keep builiding!
That's not only learning but, applying! Weaving in and out of riffs, 7ths and 9ths etc. really spruce things up. Let’s keep builiding!
Albert King
Make sure you're warmed up and your calluses are in good shape, because it's time to seriously bend some strings! Over this 12/8 blues track we're going to see how much we can wrestle out of just bending the B string! This is how Albert brought out the changes on a blues, and it's a great technique for us to develop, too.
Taking It to the Next Level
Let's put everything together and see what we come up with improvising over these changes.
Arpeggio Rabbit Hole
This laid back swing in A is the perfect track to start inserting arpeggios. The first half of the solo is more tame than the second but both have equal value.
Arps & Melodic Minor: Blues
Now we're going to start combining many of the ideas we've learned thus far. We'll use arpeggios and the melodic minor scale for this upcoming solo. Now we're talking some serious outside real world stuff. Let's do it!
+ 18 more lessons
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