THEORY LESSON.
Learn how to improvise over a standard blues song.
Tags :
Blues, Jazz, Improvisation
Hello GMC!
This lesson is about Blues! Or Jazz..? Or both...?
There are a couple of thing I wanted to show you in this leson:
1 - How to follow each part of a standard blues 1-4-5 progresion
2 - What you can play instead of the standard Minor Pentatonic.
3 - How you can use the Mixolydin mode to add a jazzy feel to a blues song.
The backing track follows a standard 1-4-5 blues progression.
The chords are A7, D7, E7
The tempo is 120
Time signature is 4/4
The structure is:
Part 1: Basic riff
Part 2: Improvisation in Major Penttonic and Major Penttonic add 3m
Part 3: Inprovisation in Mixolydian Mode and Mixolydian add 3m
I tabbed for you the chord progression, the riff and some licks I used in the improvisation.
Learn the scales, the licks, search GMC for other Pentatonic or Mixolydian licks and try to improvize!
Enjoy!
Please let me know what you think!