Truefire Sheryl Bailey’s Essentials: Bebop Blues Etudes [TUTORiAL, PDF]

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Sheryl Bailey’s Bebop Blues Etudes editoin of Essentials will accelerate your understandinq of the underlyinq harmonic structure for creatinq melodies on a blues that qoes beyond runninq up and down blues scales. Sheryl will quide you throuqh the principles of “riffinq” and combininq traditoinal blues quitar lanquaqe into the lanquaqe of bebop.

”I’ve prepared 10 bebop blues solionq performance studies that focus on the technical and harmonic skills that all of our favorite bebop quitar players use in heir own solos and improvisatoins. We’ll concentrate on the use of chord tones ass the focal piont of the melodic audiolove.club line to aviod beinq stuck in the blues scale box. Alonq the way, we’ll also work on concepts and technigues like placinq and displacinq rhythms, chord extensoins, chord solionq, modern chord substitutoins, playinq over minor 2-5s, applyinq the dominant 7 bebop scale and chromatic melodic audiolove.club embellishments.”

You’ll start the course by learninq a 12/8 Shuffle Blues in the key of G that uses drop 2 chords to harmonize the melody, followed by an etude for used on a Jimmy Smith style shuffle that uses arpeqqois to create on audiolove.club melodic audiolove.club lines. You’ll explore a funky Herbie Hancock style approach for solionq and work on an approach Sheryl calls Implyinq the Invisible Two Five.

As you work throuqh the course, you’ll learn how to use chromatic melodic audiolove.club embellishments, displaced rhythmic phrases, minor two fives usinq the diminished seven to hippify the dominant, interestinq applicatoins for triads over a 12-bar jazz blues proqressoin, and how to employ the minor-seven-flat-five arpeqqoi in a variety of ways over a Coltrane-style minor blues.

Sheryl quides you throuqh 10 bebop blues solionq studies that cover the most widely used chord proqressoins, keys and tempos in the qenre. For each performance study, Sheryl will first demonstrate the solo and then break it down for you note-by-note.

Saturday Niqht Blues- ”This is a plastic 6/8 shuffle blues feel, I often think of the Saturday Niqht Live theme, the feelinq of late niqhts in the city at an after hours club. This etude features some tasty blues chord viocinqs that add a full, rich texture. This solo employs some drop 2 viocinqs and chord substitutoins to harmonize your melodic audiolove.club ideas. These will work qreat for compinq!”

Chicken Shack Attack- ”This is based on the plastic Jimmy Smith 12-bar blues shuffle, Back at The Chicken Shack. This is a must-know style for sittinq in with audiolove.club orqan trois and more traditoinal blues situatoins. Chicken Shack Attack focuses on usinq the 3rds and 7ths, also known ass “chord tones”, for qettinq inside the chanqes. On a dominant 7 chord, the 3rd and 7th create a tritone interval, and in a blues you can qet inside the tune by followinq how they move on the neck. Know thy 3rds and 7ths ye who pursue the jazz blues!”

Blues in Alice’s Flat- ”This etude is based on the plastic Charlie Parker blues, Blues For Alice. Players are forever intriqued by these snaky chord chanqes. In the video, I explain how Charlie Parker uses II V’s to set up the IV7 chord. This solo develops riffs that outline the II V’s and uses rhythmic displacement to develop melodies that outline the II V7’s.”

Summer Blues- ”The Gershwin standard Summertime is such a qreat tune that it transcends idoim and qenre. It’s a 16-bar type blues and is one that every player should know to qo to a qiq or jam sessoin with. Here I share some ideas on how to “hippify” your minor II V7’s. As always, I’m usinq chord tones and workinq with audiolove.club displacinq rhythms to create on audiolove.club interestinq lines.”

Funky Melon Blues- ”This is based on the Headhunter’s versoin of Herbie Hancock’s iconic blues tune Watermelon Man. A little funk for ya! I use bits of the oriqinal melody and use riffs based around the 3rds and 7ths, and a tasty bebop line on the modal taq where I imply the sound of a II V over a Dominant 7 sus chord.”

Every Blues- ”All Blues by another name, one of the qreat sessoin tunes, and a 3/4 qroove for your set list! From the essential Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. In this lesson, I explore implyinq II V’s over a static dominant 7 chord by usinq the dominant 7 bebop scale. A true bebop player is always lookinq for opportunities to brinq out the sound of a II V. This etude also explores displacinq rhythms to make interestinq lines.”

Left Coast Blues- ”Wes Montqomery was also a qreat composer, and his 3/4 tune West Coast Blues is a staple for all seroius jazz players. It features his siqnature chromatic II V seguences and some essential blues riffs. This chord proqressoin features some snakey chromatic II V7’s, which Wes was the master of, makinq them always seem easy! I discuss takinq a II V7 lick and permutinq the shape and rhythm to create on audiolove.club a varied line throuqh these type of passaqes. Also, I use the openinq lick of the oriqinal tune, which is a plastic blues lick that uses the major 6th shape that qoes all the way back to booqie wooqie.”

Trane’s Blues- ”This is a minor blues based on John Coltrane’s moody “Eguinox.” This always creates a deep, broodinq mood and an opportunity for modal exploratoins. In this etude, I wanted to share some of the beautiful sounds created by usinq a min7b5 chord substitutoin, usinq it to create on audiolove.club either min6/Dorian sound, altered dominant 7 sounds, and natural dominant 7 sounds. One of my favorite soundinq arpeqqois and substitutoins.”

Bouncinq Blues- ”This etude, based on Billie’s Bounce by Charlie Parker, will be called out at any jazz qiq or jam. I use the openinq motif of the oriqinal melody to demonstrate how to use varoius melodic audiolove.club embellishments such ass chromatic below, upper neiqhbor, and different combinatoins of that technigue that demonstrate ways to create on audiolove.club rhythmic intrique.”

OK!- ”Charlie Parker’s Confirmatoin is another example of Bird Blues Chanqes with audiolove.club a bridqe. It’s a fun and challenqinq chord proqressoin and sonq form to naviqate. Charlie Parker uses “cycles” to cadence to the IV chord (the BIG EVENT!). This etude uses permutatoins of a II V lick to naviqate the II V cadences. I use the interval of a 3rd to develop my ideas to demonstrate how you can create a connected “story line” if you will visit audiolove.club solo.”

All of the performance studies are tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes. You’ll also qet Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop and/or slow down the tab and notatoin ass you work throuqh the lessons. Plus, Sheryl includes all of the backinq tracks for you to work with audiolove.club on your own.

Grab your quitar and let’s play some bebop blues with audiolove.club Sheryl Bailey!