Flying Solo: Beginner Blues (JamPlay)
Elevate Your Blues Playing: Take Flight as a Confident Soloist
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About this course
Embark on a Thrilling Solo Adventure with "Flying Solo: Beginner Blues," an exceptional online guitar course exclusively available on TrueFire, produced in collaboration with JamPlay. Whether you're a novice guitarist or have a basic understanding of the instrument, this course is your passport to becoming a confident and expressive blues soloist.
Led by expert instructors from JamPlay, "Flying Solo: Beginner Blues" guides you through a comprehensive curriculum designed to develop your improvisational skills and unleash your inner blues soloist. With 41 engaging lessons, you'll learn essential scales, bending techniques, phrasing concepts, and blues-specific licks that will empower you to create captivating and soulful solos.
The course focuses on practical application, ensuring you gain a deep understanding of the blues language. You'll learn how to construct melodic and expressive solos over blues progressions, exploring various blues styles and their unique characteristics. Through hands-on exercises, backing tracks, and interactive demonstrations, you'll develop the ability to improvise with confidence and creativity.
TrueFire's state-of-the-art learning platform ensures an immersive and interactive experience. High-definition video lessons, on-screen tablature, and downloadable practice materials make it easy to follow along and reinforce your understanding of each concept. You'll have the flexibility to learn at your own pace and revisit lessons whenever you need to solidify your skills.
Ignite your blues guitar playing with "Flying Solo: Beginner Blues." Unleash your improvisational prowess, captivate audiences, and experience the thrill of taking exhilarating blues solos. Enroll today and soar to new heights as a blues soloist.
Led by expert instructors from JamPlay, "Flying Solo: Beginner Blues" guides you through a comprehensive curriculum designed to develop your improvisational skills and unleash your inner blues soloist. With 41 engaging lessons, you'll learn essential scales, bending techniques, phrasing concepts, and blues-specific licks that will empower you to create captivating and soulful solos.
The course focuses on practical application, ensuring you gain a deep understanding of the blues language. You'll learn how to construct melodic and expressive solos over blues progressions, exploring various blues styles and their unique characteristics. Through hands-on exercises, backing tracks, and interactive demonstrations, you'll develop the ability to improvise with confidence and creativity.
TrueFire's state-of-the-art learning platform ensures an immersive and interactive experience. High-definition video lessons, on-screen tablature, and downloadable practice materials make it easy to follow along and reinforce your understanding of each concept. You'll have the flexibility to learn at your own pace and revisit lessons whenever you need to solidify your skills.
Ignite your blues guitar playing with "Flying Solo: Beginner Blues." Unleash your improvisational prowess, captivate audiences, and experience the thrill of taking exhilarating blues solos. Enroll today and soar to new heights as a blues soloist.
What you'll learn
- Apply chord tone knowledge to create melodic lines
- Use slides as rhythmic embellishments without disrupting timing
- Execute turnarounds in blues form
- Use chromatic approaches effectively in blues context
- Create tension and release with minor/major third movements
Release date: 04/03/2022 • 2h 48m runtime
Sample lessons
Solo 1: Shuffle Blues in A
Solo 2: Funky Blues in D
Solo 3: C Minor Blues Solo
What's included
17 lessons • 16 charts • 16 Jam Tracks
Course Introduction
Charlie Stevens introduces us to "Flying Solo: Beginner Blues"!
Lick: Major Mix Up
Let's dive into our first lick using the major pentatonic scale in the key of A.
Lick: Box O' Blues
This next lick will be over the four chord as we learn the A minor pentatonic scale.
Target Practice
For this target practice lesson, Charlie walks us through chord tones.
Solo 1: Shuffle Blues in A
Now that we have all the parts under our fingers let's put them all together for our first solo!
Back to Your Roots
Let's switch gears and jump into some blues with a funk context. For this lesson, we focus on targeting our root note.
Turn it Around
In this lesson, Charlie walks us through the turnaround for this piece.
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