Minor Blues Chord Substitutions

Expand Your Minor Blues With Freddie Green Voicings & Chord Substitutions

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Freddie Green Chords

Swing Voicings & Chord Substituions on the Twelve Bar Blues
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Welcome to Reliable Source: In-depth workshops on blues and jazz improvisation

09/23/23 Minor Blues Chord Substitutions • 10/21/23 Minor Blues & Bebop • 11/11/23 Kenny Burrell Chords


All live streams will take place at 10:30 AM CDT


A replay will be available immediately after for on-demand viewing of the entire workshop

 

Introducing Reliable Source: In-depth workshops on blues and jazz improvisation

04/22/23 Freddie Green Chords

05/20/23 The Swing Scale

06/24/23 Bebop For Beginners


All live streams will take place at 10:30 AM CDT


A replay will available immediately after for on-demand viewing of the entire workshop

 

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 minor blues progressions need a reboot, it makes sense to think about learning some new voicings. But it's not enough to just get a few new chord shapes under your fingers – you need to learn how to use them, too. Blues-oriented jazz guitarists like Freddie Green, Herb Ellis and Duke Robillard rely on just a handful of chord shapes, yet manage to spin out a seemingly endless round of blues choruses with the conversational variety of a great improvised solo. With the right ideas and information, you can too.

A Three-Step Method to Upgrade your Chord Game

Know The Jazz Roadmap

When it comes to the twelve-bar progression, jazz musicians pick up where Delta and Chicago blues leaves off. Understand how to think like a jazz musician, and your hands will follow.

Right Groove, Right Voicings

Plenty of jazz rhythm guitar is based on surprisingly few chord shapes played in a very specific way. You can use these building blocks to emulate classic swing and bebop grooves, or repurpose them to your own creative ends.

Build a Vocabulary of Moves

Chord substitutions resolve – like licks in a solo, the chords are constantly on the go. With just a handful of two- or three-chord moves, you can start putting together your own choruses.

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Getting That Sound Shouldn't Feel Mysterious

Learning new chords 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, the Freddie Green style can look hard to decipher, but it's really just based on a handful of key chord shapes, and there is a logic to how guitarists put together those random-seeming sequences of voicings.  For this workshop, I've distilled that logic down to the essentials, and I'll show you how jazz musicians think about the minor blues form, the specific chord shapes you need to play minor blues progressions, how to put these chords together in the most musical, intuitive way possible, and the best way to practice your new vocabulary.

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HOW IT WORKS

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Learn the most essential new chord voicings and how to apply them to the minor blues.

Transform Your Minor Blues

Watch the replay for an entire year, organize your practice plan, and transform your minor blues progressions.

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$79  09/23/23 MINOR BLUES CHORD SUBSTITUTIONS

Freddie Green voicings and chord substitutions for 8- and 12-bar minor blues progressions

$79  10/21/23 MINOR BLUES & BEBOP

Add altered and diminished sounds to the minor blues progression

$79  11/11/23 KENNY BURRELL CHORDS

Create chord-melody licks and  comp for yourself while soloing on minor blues progressions

 

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Get a year's access to Minor Blues Chord Substitutions, October 's workshop on Minor Blues & Bebop and November's Kenny Burrell Chords for $197.

 
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