Learn to hear and feel the form and chord changes to a “Bird” Blues. This complex blues form is still commonly called on jam sessions and the chord changes are often inserted into other types of blues to add variety while improvising.
Members Play Sonny Stitt’s Solo on “Night Letter”
My review of our November transcription challenge. Fantastic work, everyone!
Jazz Blues Workout – Progressive Exercises To Hear And Feel The Blues Form
Learn to hear and feel the form and chord changes of a “jazz” blues. This is the most common blues form called on a jazz jam session. You’ll learn how to outline chords, apply vocabulary, and learn what differentiates this from a basic blues.
Using the 7-T Practice Framework to Convert a Lick You Transcribe into Your Own Vocabulary (Hank Mobley)
In this lesson we’ll take a Hank Mobley ii-V-I nugget and put it through the 7T Practice Framework to turn it into original vocabulary.
Members Play Hank Mobley’s Solo On “Dig Dis” (Hard Bop Blues)
My review of our Mobley transcription challenge. 58 submissions(!) with bundles of pointers. Great work, all!
Listening Lab: Hank Mobley’s melodic turnarounds (and more) from “Dig Dis”
From solo pacing to groove to rich harmonic activity to Hank’s melodic turnarounds there’s so much to explore in this killer performance.