A Three-Step Method to Upgrade your Soloing
1. Freddie Green Chords
Get the jazz guitarist's road map for the 12-bar blues while learning authentic swing rhythms, classic voicings, and chord substitutions.
2. The Swing Scale
Learn the essential scale that turns pentatonic licks into jazz vocabulary, and make your blues ideas swing with authentic jazz phrasing.
3. Bebop For Beginners
Add chromatic notes and altered tones to your 12-bar solos while staying true to your blues sensibilities.
Not just what, but HOW
Everyone gets in a rut at some point, and starts looking for a way to make the familiar sound new and fun again. If you feel like your blues soloing needs a reboot, it might seem like learning more scales and arpeggios is the answer. But it's easy to quickly get overwhelmed by the sheer amount there is to learn and all the ways you're told you need to practice it, before you even get to playing anything remotely cool-sounding.
Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that complicated. Guitarists like Charlie Christian, Tiny Grimes, Herb Ellis and Duke Robillard really rely on just a few essential scales in a couple of positions on the neck, yet manage to spin out a seemingly endless variety of blues choruses that combine the drive and impact of the blues with the wit and sophistication of jazz. With the right ideas and information, you can too.
Getting That Sound Shouldn't Feel Mysterious
Learning new licks and how to put them together does take time and practice, but what to work on and how to get there shouldn't be a big mystery or take the rest of your life to accomplish. From the outside, that jazzier approach to the blues can look impossible to decipher, but it's really just based on a few key scales and, more importantly, a few key concepts for creating authentic, musical and convincing solos. For these workshops, I distilled those concepts down to the essentials, and I'll show you how jazz musicians think about the blues form, the specific kinds of licks you need to play twelve bar blues in the swing and bebop styles, how to put those licks together in the most musical, intuitive way possible, and the best way to practice your new vocabulary.
HOW IT WORKS
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Take The Workshops
Learn the essential chord shapes and scales and how to apply them to the twelve bar blues
Get That Jazz/Blues Sound
Watch the replays for an entire year, organize your practice plan, and add that jazz sound to your blues vocabulary
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WEEK ONE
What we'll cover the first week and why it's so helpful...
Wednesday 09/09/26
WEEK TWO
The awesomeness continues with....
Wednesday 9/16/26
WEEK THREE
And then we'll talk about...
Wednesday 09/23/26
WEEK FOUR
Big finish, as we go over...
Wednesday 09/20/26
Reserve access now for complete downloads of the completed class for just $XX
If you missed these workshops the first time around, or would just like to get another year's access to the material for half the price of the original series, sign up now.
THE BEATLES AND THE BLUES
$49
This four-week online class includes:
Please note:
All four classes will remain available for replay for seven days after the final class on Wednesday, Sept. 30th.
A downloadable version of the complete class is available for an addtional $XX; see below
