Blues: The Next Level

Expand your blues vocabulary by playing into the chord changes for a harmonically sophisticated approach.

What you'll learn

Take your blues playing to the next level

Improve your blues phrasing and harmonic knowledge by learning how to really play into the changes

Learn Jazz Blues and Blues Fusion concepts

Learn countless blues licks and phrases

Requirements

This course is aimed at the intermediate player or the advanced player looking to improve their blues vocabulary. While the course is accompanied by tab, standard notation and diagrams, it is assumed that the student has already had some experience with at least the minor pentatonic scale and with expressive techniques such as string bending and vibrato. A basic knowledge of a standard 12 bar blues structure is also recommended.

Description

This course is designed to take your blues guitar playing to the next level!In this series of lessons, we will expand our blues vocabulary by learning how to really play into the changes, highlighting the harmony of each chord. We will study our scale choices over each chord and learn countless licks, phrases and concepts that we can incorporate into our own playing, developing tranferable skills that can be applied to every genre of music.We will learn slippery blues slur licks, blues fusion licks and harmonic concepts such as bebop inspired phrases, diminished ideas, jazz blues arpeggios using chromatic approach notes and much more. This course is aimed at the intermediate player or the advanced player looking to improve their blues vocabulary. While the course is accompanied by tab, standard notation and diagrams, it is assumed that the student has already had some experience with at least the minor pentatonic scale and with expressive techniques such as string bending and vibrato. A basic knowledge of a standard 12 bar blues structure is also recommended. The course features:5 fully tabbed solos!27 pages of Tab and diagrams!4 Backing Tracks!5 Guitar Pro files!Dozens of licks and concepts!Are you ready to take the next step in blues guitar playing?

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Section 2: Playing Into The Changes

Lecture 2 Playing Into The Changes pt1

Lecture 3 Playing Into The Changes pt2

Lecture 4 Playing Into The Changes pt3

Section 3: Blues 'Slur' Licks

Lecture 5 Blues 'Slur' Licks pt1

Lecture 6 Blues Slur Licks pt2

Section 4: Blues Fusion Concepts

Lecture 7 Blues Fusion Concepts

Section 5: Jazz Blues Concepts

Lecture 8 Jazz Blues Concepts

This course is aimed at the intermediate player or the advanced player looking to improve their blues vocabulary. While the course is accompanied by tab, standard notation and diagrams, it is assumed that the student has already had some experience with at least the minor pentatonic scale and with expressive techniques such as string bending and vibrato. A basic knowledge of a standard 12 bar blues structure is also recommended.