Improvising Blues Piano

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780825616242
• ISBN10: 0825616247
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Music Sales America
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Summary

Unlock the mystery of blues improvisation as you develop an understanding of different blues styles. Inside, you will find everything you need to know to get you playing the blues straight away. All exercises and examples are professionally demonstrated on the accompanying CD.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	5	(7)
Foreword	7	(2)
How to Study This Book	9	(1)
How to Study the CD	10	(1)
Musicians Heard on the CD	10	(2)
How to Develop the Blues Styles	12	(1)
Basic Theory	13	(11)
The Cycle of Keys	13	(1)
Cycle of Keys Exercise	14	(1)
Intervals	15	(1)
Think Before Moving Exercise	16	(1)
Major Scales	16	(2)
Minor Scales	18	(1)
Modes	19	(1)
Learning the Modes	19	(1)
Triads	20	(1)
Open Voicings	21	(1)
Sevenths	22	(2)
The Boogie Woogie Blues Style	24	(17)
The Basic Blues	24	(1)
The Blues Form(s)	24	(1)
The Boogie Woogie Style	24	(1)
Groove Tune	25	(1)
Developing the Boogie Woogie Style	25	(1)
The Blues Scale	26	(1)
The Mixolydian+ Mode	26	(3)
Important Soloing Ideas	29	(9)
CD Performance of Boogie Woogie Blues	38	(3)
Tritone Blues Style	41	(7)
The Tritone Blues Style	41	(1)
The Tritone Blues Form	41	(1)
Development of the Tritone Blues	42	(1)
Theory for the Tritone Blues	42	(2)
Chord Extensions	44	(1)
Extension Exercise	45	(2)
How to Learn Extensions	45	(2)
Continuous Motion Exercise	47	(1)
Gospel Blues Style	48	(9)
Development of the Gospel Blues Style	48	(1)
Analysis of ``Amazing Grace'' CD Performance	49	(1)
Development of ``Amazing Grace''	49	(6)
Progressions	55	(1)
Chord Structures	56	(1)
Stride Blues Style	57	(9)
Stride Triad and 7th Inversion	58	(1)
The Turnaround	58	(2)
Tritone Substitution	60	(3)
Miscellaneous Stride Techniques	63	(3)
Funk Blues Style	66	(3)
Stop Choruses	66	(1)
Chord Structures	66	(1)
Developing the Funk Blues Style	67	(2)
Rock Blues Style	69	(3)
Jazz Blues Style	72	(17)
II-V-I Progression	72	(1)
Practicing II-V-I	73	(4)
Diminished Scale and Color Chords	77	(1)
Color Chord Exercise	77	(3)
Learning New Voicings	80	(2)
Scales for Jazz Blues Style	82	(2)
Blues Forms	84	(1)
Developing the Jazz Blues Style	85	(1)
``Blues for Clark''	86	(3)
Minor Blues Style	89	(5)
Developing the Minor Blues Style	89	(5)
CD Track List	94