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The Blues Jam Session Guide for Beginners Online
The Blues Jam Session Guide for Beginners Online
CHAPTER 1 Bring It On! – The Basics
Section 1 First things first, let's try playing!
Lesson 2 How to hold the harmonica
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Watch this video to see how to hold the harmonica
Section 2 What you didn’t know about blues
Lesson 1 On the structure of lyrics
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1-2-1What’s blues all about?
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Lesson 2 On the importance of the obbligat
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1-2-2It is all a conversation!
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Section 3 Let’s start by accompanying!
Lesson 1 Becoming the bassline of blues
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1-3-1part1Get a feel for the backbone of blues!
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1-3-1part2Get a feel for the backbone of blues!
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1-3-1part1+2Get a feel for the backbone of blues!
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1-3-1part3Get a feel for the backbone of blues!
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1-3-1part1+2+3Get a feel for the backbone of blues!
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1-3-1Let’s play the bassline again (and again!)
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Lesson 2 Ending a blues
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1-3-2Look out for the last two chords!
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Lesson 3 Starting a blues
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1-3-3The intro and the ending are connected!
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Lesson 4 Vamping
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1-3-4Vamp challenge!
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Lesson 5 Timing the breaks
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1-3-5Timing is everything!
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Lesson 6 Warbling those obbligatos
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1-3-6Let’s play a good response!
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Lesson 7 Review
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1-3-7Play to your heart’s content!
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Section 4 Time to solo
Lesson 1 Replacing the song’s melody with a solo
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1-４-1Timing is everything!
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Lesson 2 Signaling properly
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1-4-2Let’s learn how to signal!
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Lesson 3 Tying up your phrases (part 1)
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1-4-3Let’s play “this is it”!
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Lesson 4 Tying up your phrases (part 2)
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1-4-4Warblin’… This is it!
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Lesson 5 How to go into your solo
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1-4-5Jump the gun!
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Lesson 6 Tweaking the length of your phrases
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1-4-6To each their own phrase length!
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Lesson 7 “This is it” in obbligatos
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1-4-7Let’s respond with “This is it”
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