Blues Basics - Developing a Linear Approach

Rating: 1
Author: Bruce Casazza

3.0 (2 reviews)·ADVANCED·Harmony·1 lesson

“I love this class. Jack is a very musical guitarist-teacher and it's a delight to hear his ideas on this topic. I often return to this video to get more ideas and a better sense of…”

— Az Samad

$9.95

In jazz, the approach to the twelve bar blues form is progressive. The player is free to incorporate harmonic and melodic concepts and devices that might not be considered stylistically "bona fide" in more traditional approaches such as folk or electric blues. In this lesson, Jack will discuss and demonstrate some of these components, including options and techniques for developing the harmony as well as ways to develop an expanded, horn-like linear approach. View a clip from this class

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Blues Basics - Developing a Linear Approach4599

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3.0

2 reviews

Az Samad

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1/14/2016

I love this class. Jack is a very musical guitarist-teacher and it's a delight to hear his ideas on this topic. I often return to this video to get more ideas and a better sense of his phrasing. Recommended!

Bruce Casazza

1/6/2015

OMG please don't sing or scat or whatever you call that horrible noise coming out of your mouth- damm

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Jack Pezanelli is a professor of guitar at the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, MA. Recordings as leader include "Pleasured Hands" with Michael Moore and "Songs and Dedications" solo guitar. Performances/tours with Wayne Cochran, Richie Cole, Larry Coryell, Sammy Davis, Jr., Maynard Ferguson, Shirley Horn, Cleo Laine/John Dankworth, Rebecca Parris, Jaco Pastorius, Herb Pomeroy, Lou Rawls and others. Jack is profiled in "The Jazz Guitar, It's Evolution and Players Since 1900, Fourth Edition" by Maurice J. Summerfield. "Straight ahead to be sure, Pezanelli's fluent, solid, clear toned guitar style bristles with undeniable verve." - Jim Ferguson, Jazz Times