How To Crush The Blues

Select a lesson below to start your journey.

Goal:

Playing the blues is a special thing in jazz. It’s an easy form, without many chords that practically everyone can learn. But what if you want to go deeper? What if you want to make your blues sound better and different?

In this mini course you’ll finally learn the secrets to getting an authentic, dirty, gritty gospel and soul filled blues sound in your comping, improvisation and overall playing anytime you want.

Focus Points:

Everything regarding the blues

COURSE LESSONS

Lesson 1: Blues Voicings For All Registers
- Step #1 – LH Voicings
- Step #2 – Two Hand Voicings
- Step #3 – Low Middle Voicings
- Step #4 – Middle Voicings
- Step #5 – High Voicings
Lesson 2: Blues Forms
- Step #1 – Classic Blues Form
- Step #2 – Jazz Form (Billie’s Bounce)
- Step #3 – Parker Blues (Blues For Alice)
- Step #4 – Minor Blues (Mr. PC)
Lesson 3: Simple Blues Chord Variations
- Step #1 – 4 Chord Measure 2
- Step #2 – 25 Measure 4
- Step #3 – #4 Diminished
- Step #4 – 4 Minor
- Step #5 – Walkdown
- Step #6 – 3625
Lesson 4: 6 Must-Know Solo Blues Piano Styles
- Step #1 – Boogie & Shuffle
- Step #2 – LH 1 & 7
- Step #3 – Stride
- Step #4 – Broken Stride
- Step #5 – Low End Bass Note
- Step #6 – Slow Dirty Tempo
Lesson 5: Blues Trio Style
- Step #1 – The Trio Style
Lesson 6: Comping Rhythms
- Step #1 – Downbeats & Upbeats
- Step #2 – Long & Short
- Step #3 – Balance
- Step #4 – Popular Rhythms
Lesson 7: Improvisation Old Style
- Step #1 – LH Voicings
- Step #2 – Blues Scale
- Step #3 – Improvisation Elements
- Step #4 – Motif Development
- Step #5 – Major 6th Blues Scale
- Step #6 – Full Major Blues Scale
- Step #7 – Textures
- Step #8 – Blues Licks
Lesson 8: Improvisation Modern Style
- Step #1 – LH Voicings
- Step #2 – Modern Improv Scales
- Step #3 – Hexatonic Improv Sound
- Step #4 – Reharm For A Modern Sound
New Section
- Step #1 – Tritone Substitution
- Step #2 – Minor 2
- Step #3 – Sus Reharm
- Step #4 – Secondary Dominants
Lesson 10: Blues Reharm Part 2
- Step #1 – Measures 1-4
- Step #2 – Measures 5-8
- Step #3 – Measures 9-12
Lesson 11: Blues Analysis
- Step #1 – Wynton Kelly
- Step #2 – Oscar Peterson
- Step #3 – Hampton Hawes
- Step #4 – Gene Harris
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