Blues

Stand Behind Your Instrument!

This is a project I've been working on for a long time. I'm offering it up as new practice material while isolated due to Coronavirus Lockdown. It's about 1/3 complete but it's a LOT of practice work.

I came up with the idea about 35 years ago, then put it out in a very rough form with intentions of someday making it more user friendly. In the past few years, I add to it it when I feel like messing with it. It's great practice material and is very challenging. I thought I'd add it to the mix here at VW for folks looking for something different to work on while held up at home.

Here's the plan:

Today is March 15th: Deadline is March 25th.

Play this track. Wear headphones when you record. Don't record the track.

Count off with the 2 bar intro. But count like this. 2,3,4,1,2. Make sure your counting is on. Then play 2 choruses of a blues solo audio or video.

Then send it to me. After March 25 I'll put it together with my backing tracks and make a video out of it.

If you are in, please put your name in the comments.

When you send me the file title it like this.
Blue-YOURNAME

Here is a blues article I wrote many years ago. It's a different approach than what I learned at Berklee which I believe caused me to overthink the blues. I taught it quite successfully to many students so if you're starting out or struggling to express in the blues form and style, give this method a go. Once this basic idea of the blues is in your ears and hands, it's much easier to add more sophisticated things on top of it.

Hey Vibes Workshop

Chinese Translation is for Chinese students
當網站上出現這種資源時，就是最好自己學習的時候，看你可以從這短短的幾小節，學到什麼東西。
PDF中任何一個和聲配置（Voicing）你都可以轉到不同的12個調中。
比如說第一個和弦，是Gminor6的開離和弦配置，你把它依照循環四度，轉到12個調裏，分別是G→C→F→Bb→Eb→Ab→Db→Gb→B→E→A→D→G
看你能不能打出每一個調minor6和弦，和聲配置就是這樣練。
然後節拍器開著，看能不能不掉拍子跟著速度演奏。
你可以得到學到很多很多開離和聲配置。

光是這樣這個PDF中就有學不完練不完的東西，加油：）

Hey everyone,

Here's a bonus for our 7 weeks of bebop, Blues For Alice. I thought this would be a good one because of the different changes. Good luck!

Behn