Here's my version. Where is yours! 

I will do a chord melody and either post it here, or as a separate post. 

🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 14

We’ve covered a lot over the course of this series:

• Guide tones
• Blues comping
• Chromaticism
• Whole tone and diminished language
• Chord melody textures
• Harmonic movement underneath simple melodies

For our final lesson, we bring many of those ideas together using:

👉 “The Intimacy of the Blues”

This arrangement continues the idea of using a relatively simple melody as a framework for richer harmonic movement underneath.

This week introduces:

Let's work on comping! 

Do you know the chords!!! :-)

Body and Soul (comp. J. W. Green) Vibraphone Solo Arrangement and Reharm. by Franz Bauer

🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 13

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been combining blues melodies with chord voicings and moving toward a fuller chord melody approach.

This week, we use a very simple melody:

👉 “C Jam Blues”

Because the melody is so minimal, it gives us room to focus on something else:

👉 Dense harmonic movement underneath the melody

This lesson introduces several important concepts:

quick video here, but think about and practice this a little bit. 

check this out. Practice this way. Not that you will use it all the time, but you might use it a lot! 

this is my stuff. Those of you who have been on the site for a long time, have heard some of this before. 

It has to sound like the song when you solo. That means you know the changes or have AMAZING ears.