Jazz Blues for Rock Players
Brendan teaches a series of lessons designed for the rock player to get their heads and fingers around playing in a jazz blues style.
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About this course
Brendan teaches a series of lessons designed for the rock player to get their heads and fingers around playing in a jazz blues style.
What you'll learn
- Play simplified jazz blues chord voicings using root, third, and seventh
- Execute rootless chord voicings for combo playing
- Navigate 12-bar blues using chromatic voice leading
- Play through a complete 12-bar blues form with backing track
- Comp with quarter note rhythm in jazz blues style
Release date: 02/25/2016 • 1h 48m runtime
Sample lessons
Adding Melody
Adding Melody
Minor Pentatonic Approach
Minor Pentatonic Approach
Playing Over the 6 Flat 9 Chord
Playing Over the 6 Flat 9 Chord
What's included
12 lessons • 11 charts • 10 Jam Tracks
Series Introduction: Blues Basics
To get started with his Jazz Blues for Rock Players series, Brendan discusses the goals set out for the series and also covers the most basic elements of the blues; the 12 bar structure.
Jazz Blues Chord Voicings
In lesson two of his Jazz Blues for Rock Players series, Brendan discusses common chord voicings and ways to use them in the style.
Adding Melody
Stepping away from rhythm for a moment, it's time to start looking at the roll of melody in this style. Brendan breaks down some tendencies here and demonstrates some concepts.
Adding the Flat 7
Lesson four of his Jazz Blues for Rock Players series is all about the Flat 7. Brendan discusses it's addition to the melodic scope of playing and how best to use it.
Progression Changes
Lesson five in this series builds on the concepts taught in the last lesson and looks at how the chord progression changes to add a more jazz influenced sound to your blues rock playing.
Improvising Over the ii-V Progression
Continuing with the theme of the chord progression change, it's time to start thinking about improv options for the turnaround. Specifically the 2-5 change that occurs with this new chord progression.
Minor Pentatonic Approach
Continuing with his lesson series, Brendan is transitioning to approach tones. To get started he'll discuss the minor pentatonic approach.
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