Blues in Ab Backing Track (minus Comp), Swing, 130 bpm
Jazz Blues Backing Track.
A mid-tempo jazz blues for practicing:
- Blues melodies
- Improvising solos
- Working through difficult or unfamiliar keys
- Double-time fragments
- Phrasing and timing
Some things to try:
- Try improvising using only chord tones or guide-tone lines
- Practice the “question, question, answer“ phrasing that is indicative of the blues form.
- Work on integrating acquired licks or language over this form
- Dominant 7 options:
- Mixolydian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7, 1)
- Lydian b7 (1, 2, 3, #4, 5, 6, b7)
- Melodic Dom. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1)
- Harmonic Dom. (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1)
- Altered (1, b2, #2, 3, b5, #5, b7)
- Half-whole dim. (1, b2, #2, 3, #4, 5, 6, b7)
- Whole Tone (1, 2, 3, #4, #5, b7)
- Harmonic Major Dominant (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7)
- Practice moving from harmonic specific phrases (chord-tone approach) to blues scale (minor pentatonic) phrases.
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