Song List:
Introduction
Music Review
Middle C
The Grand Staff
Sharps and Flats
Half Steps And Whole Steps
The Major Scale
Ingredients for a 12-Bar Blues
Simple Blues in C
Feelin' the Shuffle Blues
Dominant Chords
Improvising: Telling Your Own Story
Soloing with Just Two Notes
Live at the Two-Note
Two is Enough
Soloing with Three Notes
Three's Company
2x3
Combining Two-Note and Three-Note Ideas
Tag It On
The Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scales
Flat City Blues
Going Downstairs
It's All Downhill
Getting More Mileage Out Of Your Ideas
Play Clusters from the Scale in Repeating Patterns
Rhythm, Rhythm, Rhythm
Add the Root or the 5th Above Your Ideas
Over the Top Blues
Use Octaves to Emphasize Ideas
Use Trills to Create a Dramatic Effect
Take a Simple Idea and Repeat It Over Different Octaves
Chicago Style
Playing Off the Chords
Triad Blues
Passing Tone Blues
The Pull-Off
The On-Again, Off-Again Blues
Approach Tones
Approachin', Encroachin' Blues
Chord-Tone Exercise
Another Way to Make the Changes
Makin' the Changes Blues
More About the V Chord
High Five Blues
Playing Over Turnarounds and ii-V7 Progressions
Turnaround Exercises
Putting It All Together For The Hippest Sound
Together Forever Blues
The Balloon Approach
Hot Air Blues
Repeat, Combine, Extend
It's All About Me
Conclusion: Enough Already, Time to Jam!
Key to Listening Exercises
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