Friday, January 5, 2018

Playin' the Blues

Blues Songs - Semester One

 1. Stormy Monday (very advanced)
 2. St. Louis Blues (almost the blues)
 3. St. James Infirmary (if you can play THIS, then you can play the blues)
 4. Blue Suede Shoes (boogie woogie, rock n roll, twelve bar)
 5. The Blues Scale ( 1, -3, 3, 4, -5, 5, 6, -7, 8)
 6. The Devil's Blues (thirteen bar blues - repeat the 12th bar)
 7. Anything by guitarist Robert Johnson
 8. Jam on a basic twelve bar blues, over, and over, and over.
 9. Lose something really important because of your own stupidity.




More Blues Songs (extra credit):

 11. All Blues - Miles Davis (challenging in the simplicity)
 12. All Shook Up - Elvis ( boogie woogie rock and roll)
 13. Summertime - Gershwin (not the blues, just feels like it) 
 14. Sorrowful Blues - Bessie Smith (make this sound good)
 15. Kansas City - Stoller and Lieber (rock n roll boogie)
 16 Hound Dog - Elvis Presley (12 bar blues)
 17. Minor Blues Scale (1,2,-3,4,-5,5,-7,8)
 18. God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
 19. Lover Man - Billie Holiday




Blues Songs - Semester Two:

 21. House of the Rising Sun - Animals (the feeling)
 22. Baby Elephant Walk - Mancini (the corny boogie woogie)
 23. Green Onions - Booker T. (the groove)
 24. Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (the drive)
 25. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Ewan McColl -- Roberta Flack (slowest tempo)
 26: One Chord Jam ( how creative are you?)
 27: "Quick change," "Turn around," "Bridge," "Solo."
 28: Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
 29: At Last - Etta James





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