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The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1

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Instructor
Jonny May
Course
Intermediate
07:52:37

The most comprehensive course on Blues improvisation! Learn essential techniques for generating blues lines, including 8ths, triplets, lower/upper positions, slides, harmonies, patterns, & more.

Course Objectives
  • Learn the Blues form, Chords, Scales and shuffle
  • Explore how to create Blues Solos with Slides
  • Learn to play in Multiple Octaves with Harmonized Lines
  • Learn 8 Awesome Licks, 8 Fancy Runs
Learning Focus
  • Exercises
  • Groove
  • Improvisation
Featured Reviews

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So much out of these challenges
As someone who always enjoyed learning bluesy pieces many years back, I really loved all of this challenge, so many useful tips and learnt so much!
Gotta Love the double harmony
Locking into the shared similarities of the runs especially when working on muscle memory
This took me in the new direction I wanted to go
This is what I signed up for when I subscribed to PWJ. I still have a way to go to be reliable doing it, but it is my first introduction to improv and it is so much fun.
Great Course with a great teacher thanks :-)
Took me 3 month as a beginner restarting again after 40 Years :-) I think I have a lot to do the next years with the stuff and I am looking forward to the Level 2 and the Gospel scale. Jonny is a very inspiring teacher pushing you being creative and go your own way and express your feelings. Thats what music is about transforming emotions. Now I can play for an hour without a sheet . Ok not everything is for other ears so beautiful, but the blues is to express myself. Thanks for the course.
Great challenge for the Classical pianist !!
I was classically trained and have never been so inspired by Jonny and his systematic approach to teaching me to have fun with the blues !

Course Lessons

1
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 1
27:09

3 Blues Chords, 12-Bar Blues Form, Blues Groove

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2
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 2
45:46

Easy Blues Shuffle, Medium Blues Shuffle

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3
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 3
48:22

Blues Scale, 8th Note Exercise, Triplet Exercise, Playing in Multiple Octaves

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4
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 4
62:32

Low Position Notes, Principles of Soloing, Improvising Quarter Notes, 8th Notes, Triplets, Patterns, Down-Slides, Line-Building Tips

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5
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 5
43:37

Upper Position Notes, Improvising Quarter Notes, 8th Notes, Triplets, Patterns, Up-Slides

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6
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 6
43:43

Combing Upper/Lower Positions and Slides

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7
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 7
46:07

Harmonizing Your Melody, Harmonizing Up-Slides & Down-Slides

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8
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 8
48:06

Multiple Octave Lines, Slides, Harmonization, Patterns

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9
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 9
54:45

8 Awesome Blues Licks

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10
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 1 – Lesson 10
52:30

4 Fancy 8th-Note Runs, 4 Fancy Triplet Runs

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Featured Reviews

View PWJ member reviews of this course!

So much out of these challenges
As someone who always enjoyed learning bluesy pieces many years back, I really loved all of this challenge, so many useful tips and learnt so much!
Gotta Love the double harmony
Locking into the shared similarities of the runs especially when working on muscle memory
This took me in the new direction I wanted to go
This is what I signed up for when I subscribed to PWJ. I still have a way to go to be reliable doing it, but it is my first introduction to improv and it is so much fun.
Great Course with a great teacher thanks :-)
Took me 3 month as a beginner restarting again after 40 Years :-) I think I have a lot to do the next years with the stuff and I am looking forward to the Level 2 and the Gospel scale. Jonny is a very inspiring teacher pushing you being creative and go your own way and express your feelings. Thats what music is about transforming emotions. Now I can play for an hour without a sheet . Ok not everything is for other ears so beautiful, but the blues is to express myself. Thanks for the course.
Great challenge for the Classical pianist !!
I was classically trained and have never been so inspired by Jonny and his systematic approach to teaching me to have fun with the blues !
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