As a blues guitar player, have you felt...
Frustrated?
By hearing yourself solo with the same licks you've been playing for years?
Overwhelmed?
By teachers who recommend learning every scale and every lick in all twelve keys?
In Over Your Head?
Trying to figure out cool-sounding licks from your favorite recordings?
What if there was a clear, simple way to start adding jazz colors to your blues soloing?
Learn The Vocabulary
In this workshop, we'll go the source – tabbed-out solos and licks played by Grant Green, Wynton Kelly and Hank Mobley – to learn the actual jazz vocabulary Blue Note-era musicians use to play the blues.
Internalize the Ideas
You'll learn the scales those licks are based on and why they work, so you can start using them in your own playing right away – and understand how to go further with them on your own.
Put It All Together
With a clear roadmap for exactly how to use your new vocabulary, you can add authentic jazz-era sounds to your own playing without losing that essential blues feeling.
Let's narrow things down...
As a player, there are few things more frustrating than feeling yourself reach for the same familiar go-to licks over and over. Or hearing new and interesting things on your favorite records that you can’t figure out on your own.
Or how about this one: finding what seems like the right web site or teacher, only to get totally overwhelmed by the sheer amount of material?
...and focus on what you really need to know.
In my thirty-plus years of teaching workshops, writing books and making instructional videos, I’ve often shown people how to do things I had to figure out myself first. So I remember how it felt listening to people like Grant Green and Kenny Burrell and thinking, “well, it sounds like blues, but not any kind of blues I know how to play!”
I only started making progress when I picked out just a handful of blues solos by the jazz musicians I liked best, and anytime I heard something that wasn’t blues licks or pentatonic scales, I tried to figure out what they were doing instead – and why they were doing it.
If you're as curious as I was about how jazz musicians play blues, but don't necessarily have the time or inclination for the bottomless project of "learning jazz," this workshop is for you.
HOW IT WORKS
Sign Up
Use the secure form below to sign up for and attend the live online workshop (or watch the replay later).
Take The Workshop
Learn authentic licks and solos by Grant Green, Hank Mobley and Wynton Kelly – why they work, where to use them, and how to add them to your blues vocabulary.
Transform Your Blues
Watch the replay for an entire year, refer to the tab for every example, and start playing the blues like a jazz musician.
Jazz Vocabulary For Blues Guitarists
Reliable Source workshops are for blues guitar players who want to become better, more interesting musicians without getting derailed learning all the modes in every key or learning tunes that don’t move you.
To do that, you need specific, focused lessons that will directly help you to play the way you want to. So much jazz instruction takes a "total mastery" approach – all the scales, all the voicings, in every position; hundreds of “must know" standards – which can get really overwhelming, really quickly.
I don’t think that should be your only choice if you want to become a better improviser. As blues musicians, I think we should have a way to take just the things we need from the jazz world, and apply it directly to the music we like best: blues.
That’s how I was ultimately able to start playing the way I’d always wanted to – listening to how my favorite jazz musicians play the twelve-bar blues, and learning or transcribing their licks to build my own vocabulary of moves.
So here’s how Blue Note Blues will work: we’ll look at two blues choruses by Grant Green and one each by Hank Mobley and Wynton Kelly. I’ll explain exactly what’s going on in each of those solos and how each lick relates to the chord progression.
We'll also check out some additional licks – variations on how to play over the same moments in the progression. And at every step of the way, I’ll break down what scales or arpeggios are involved, so you can get started right away on coming up with new variations of your own.
Stop feeling like you’re reaching for same ideas over and over, and start getting a handful of authentic jazz/blues licks under your fingers. Your hands, your ears and your imagination will thank you.
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$79Â 11/02/24 BLUE NOTE BLUES
AUTHENTIC JAZZ VOCABULARY FOR PLAYING BETTER BLUES SOLOS
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