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- Contents -

BEGINNING

CHAPTER 1 - Music Review
The Grand Staff, Clefs and Ledger Lines
The Keyboard
Half Steps and Accidentals
Rhythmic Values of Notes, Rests and Measures
Time Signatures and Measures
Major Scales and Key Signatures
Fingerings for Major Scales
Intervals
Interval Inversion
Cycle of 5ths
Relative Minor
Fingerings for Natural Minor Scales
Triads
Diatonic Triads
Form and Lead Sheets

CHAPTER 2 - The Twelve-Bar Blues
Transposing the Twelve-Bar Blues
Making a Blues Melody with Arpeggios
   Mardi Gras
Triplets
Inverting Triads
Inversion Exercises
The Left Hand - Swing or Shuffle Feel
   Working
   Melancholy Blue
Funky Thunky
   Funky Thunky
Major Chords In the Minor Blues
   Worrying Blues
Write Your Own Twelve-Bar Blues

CHAPTER 3 - Blues Melodies
Transposing the Twelve-Bar Blues
   Drowning in My Blues
The Major Pentatonic Scale
   The Major's Blues
The Minor Pentatonic Scale
   The Miner's Blues
Dominant 7th Chords
The Blues Scale
Dominant 7th Chords and the Blues Scale
   Get To It
Combining Pentatonic Scales
   Everything Blues
Tension and Resolution
   C Blues

CHAPTER 4 - Playing a Shuffle
   Chicago Time
Fun with the b5
Basslines
   Flat Five Shuffle
Tremolos and Fills
   Trems and Fills

CHAPTER 5 - Piano Blues Sounds
   Otis's Blues
Three-Note b5 Lick
Four-Note b5 Lick
Octaves
   Lafayette's Blues
Chicago Piano Sounds on the Minor Blues
   Rush's Roads
Playing off of Triads
Bending the 3rd
   Triad Blues
Playing off the Dominant 7th Chord
   Dominant Blues

CHAPTER 6 - A Look at Boogie-Woogie
   Boogie Blues
Boogie-Woogie Bass Lines
Walking the Bass
   Walking Boogie Blues
Minor Boogie and Minor 7th Chords
   So Long Boogie
   Boogie Train
Jimmy Yancey-Style Boogie-Woogie
   Jimmy's Boogie

CHAPTER 7 - Rhythm, Comping, Playing in a Band
Comping
   Blues in G
Voice Leading
   Comping in D
   Comping Shuffle in D
The Beauty of Fills
   Guitar Player
Comping with Octaves
   Octavia
Dominant 7th Chord Inversions
Voice Leading with Dominant 7th Chords
Hideaway Comp
   You Can Run but You Can't Hide
Scratch My Back Comp
   The Blues Itch
Parallel 6ths
   Parallel Blues
Minor 7th Chord Inversions
   Ten O'Clock Blues

CHAPTER 8 - Intros, Endings and Turnarounds
Turnarounds
Neighboring Chords
More Turnarounds
Turning Turnarounds into Endings
Following the Leader
Intros

CHAPTER 9 - Walking Bass and an Introduction to the Slow Blues
   Walking the Blues
Building a Walking Bassline
Getting from One Measure to the Next
Practice Making Basslines
ii-V-I
   Sad and Lonely Blues

DISCOGRAPHY


INTERMEDIATE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - Review
Diatonic Triads
Form and Load Shoots
Cycle of 5ths
The Twelve-Bar Blues
Swing feel
The Major Pentatonlc Scale
The Minor Pentatonlc Scale
Dominant 7th Chords
Minor 7th Chords
Dominant 7th Chord Inversions
Minor 7th Chord Inversions
The Blues Scale
Trills and Other Blues Sounds
Turnarounds
Neighboring Chords
Turning Turnarounds Into Endings
Intros

CHAPTER 2 - Blues Harmony and the Eight-Bar Blues
Eight-Bar Blues
OpcnVoicings for an Eight-Bar Blues
Classic Resolving V-I Lick
   So Long
I-vi-ii-V Harmony in the Blues
   Foolish Blues
Extensions
   Foolish Blues #2

CHAPTER 3 - Improvising in a Blues Style
More Resolving Licks
Playing Diatonic Lines
   It's a Fine Line
Improvising with Motifs
Harmonizing Lines in 6ths and 3rds
   September Blues
Putting It All Together
   Doin' It

CHAPTER 4 - Focus on the Left Hand
Review
Walking Bass Lines
Roots, 3rds, 7ths and lOths
   Blues for Lefty
Left-Hand Combinations
   Schizophrenic Blues
Stride Piano
   Stride by Stride

CHAPTER 5 - More Harmony/Slow Blues
Harmony Overview: Triads, 7th Chords, Extensions, Altered Extensions and Sus Chords
Exercises for Playing Altered and Suspended Chords
Chording the Minor Climb
Slow Blues Changes
Back and Forth and Neighboring Chords
Left-Hand Combinations
   Stormy Tuesday
Improvising Over a Slow Blues
   Stormy Solo

CHAPTER 6 - Grooving
Review of Rhythmic Feels
Rhythmic Resolution
Syncopation
Putting It All Together
   Sister Swing
   Gettin'Funky
Rhythmic Exercises
   In a Blue Funk
The In-Between Zone
   He's Into Something

CHAPTER 7 - Chicago Breakdown
The Chicago Blues Story
Get Physical
Variations on a Classic Sound
Breaks
   I Feel So Chicago

CHAPTER 8 - New Orleans
The New Orleans Blues Story
   New Orleans Rock
Octaves and Ornamentation
   Longhair Blues
More on the Left Hand
More Patterns
   Crescent City Groove

CHAPTER 9 - West Coast "Lounge Blues" and the Birth of Soul
Background
"Lounge Blues" Sounds
   Heartbreak Blues

DISCOGRAPHY


MASTERING

ABOUTTHE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - Review
Triads
Dominant 7th Chords
Extensions
OpenVoicings and Doublings
Shell Voicings
Roots. 3rds. 7ths and lOths
Swing Feel
Cycle of 5ths
Review of Rhythmic Feels
Walking Bass Lines
Tremolos and Other Blues Sounds
The Basic Forms
Turnarounds
Neighboring Chords
Endings and Intros

CHAPTER 2 - Improvising and Soloing
Motifs
Developing a Motif
Non-Motivic Material and Its Uses
The Double Melodic Line and Its Uses
Some Useful Patterns
Permutations
Real Improvisation - Inventing Material as You Solo
   Fingers Aflame
Changing Harmonic Density
Block Voicing
   The Incredible Expanding Riff

CHAPTER 3 - Variety in Turnarounds and Progressions
Tritone Substitution

CHAPTER 4 - Multiple Functions of the Hands and Independence
Independence
Improvising Your Walking Bass Lines
Some Other Possibilities
Combining Ideas
   Crazy Quilt
   Your Indigo Purgatory
More About Stride
   God Was in the House

CHAPTER 5 - Blues Organ
A Quick Guide to Operating the B-3
Getting Started with Drawbar Settings
Implications of Organ Keyboard Action
Implications of Keyboard Action in Comping

CHAPTER 6 - Rhythm Section Playing, Comping and Grooving
Playing in a Band
Groove
Vocal Accompaniment in a Duo Format
   The Perfect Blues

CHAPTER 7 - Chicago/Delta Blues
Background
Structure
Bass Lines
Intros and Endings
The Styles of Spann and Montgomery
   Workin' the Hand Spann Blues
   Your Brother's Keeper Blues

CHAPTER 8 - New Orleans R&B
Musical Gumbo
Longhair Blues
New Orleans Accompaniment Styles
   Ode: Tousan-Ity Blues
   Jammin' with the Wind

CHAPTER 9 - Burnin', Layin' Back and Bringin' It All Home
Burnin'
Layin' Back
Bringin' It All Home
   Blues for Heavy Rotation

CHAPTER 10 - Boogie-Woogie
Bass Lines
Motifs
   The Star Boogie

CHAPTER 11 - Gospel
Background
The Style

CHAPTER 12 - Jazz and Fusion Blues
Natural Modes and Synthetic Scales
Playing Changes
   The Blues Changes Everything
Expanding the Parameters
   Global Village Blues

INTO THE FUTURE
DISCOGRAPHY