Introduction to the Blues (eBook)
A Method Book for all Ages
Well-known jazz piano great, Matt Dennis, provides a step-by-step study into blues and improvisation. This highly acclaimed text explores the traditional 12-bar blues formula with its three chord changes; covers in some depth all the basic blues chords and inversions; teaches the most popular blues bass progressions and provides a wide variety of original blues melodies for students to play.          
Product Number:
93397EB
Format:
eBook
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation
Pages:
76
Binding:
eBook
ISBN:
1-5134-7558-4
ISBN13:
978-15134-7558-5
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
9/28/2023
Well-known jazz piano great, Matt Dennis, provides a step-by-step study into blues and improvisation. This highly acclaimed text explores the traditional 12-bar blues formula with its three chord changes; covers in some depth all the basic blues chords and inversions; teaches the most popular blues bass progressions and provides a wide variety of original blues melodies for students to play.          
FIRST BASS PROGRESSION
12 BAR BLUES
THE MAJOR SCALE PATTERN
THE MAJOR TRIAD
BLUES CHORDS
THE NEW BLUES
DOWN HOME BLUES
THE DOMINANT 7TH
SYNCOPATED BLUES IN F
BLUES CHORD INVERSIONS
MORE INVERSIONS STUDY
THE BLUES SCALE PATTERN
WALKING BASS
MORE WALKING BASS
BLUES IN G
OLD BOB'S DOG
HARD LUCK BLUES
THE DOT
SYNCOPATION
JOHNNY AND FRANKIE
THE Bb BLUES
BLUES FOR JULIE
BLUES INTENSE
BOOGIE WOOGIE BLUES
DAVE'S BOOGIE
SLEEPWALKIN' BLUES
OCTAVES IN BASS
IMPROVISE YOUR OWN BLUES
MY VERY OWN BLUES
CHORD VOICING
VOICE LEADING
I GOT THE BLUES FOR ST. LOUIS
BLUES IN A MINOR KEY
8 BAR BLUES
MORE BLUES IN A MINOR KEY
AN INTRO TO THE BLUES
SPECIAL SECTION
MAJOR SCALES
THE I CHORD
THE IV CHORD
THE V CHORD
THE V7 CHORD
THE DIMINISHED 7TH CHORD
THE MINOR CHORDS OF THE BLUES
SYNCOPATION OF THE BLUES
POPULAR BLUES BASS PROGRESSIONS
STRIDE-BASS
 
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