What i mean, for example, is that, say the song moves from c to am, the bass goes c, b, a like with what any normal. Horace silver senor blues this song is a very lovely jazz standard which is written in 68 time and. Its a great place to start and a feel that is guaranteed to show up at just about any open blues jam. F jazz blues etude 1 basic arpeggios if you have any questions or comments then feel free to leave them here or on the video. Senor blues seven steps to heaven shawnuff shoe shine boy shutterbug. Guitar virtuosity for the everyday man 4 lesson 1 welcome future guitar and bass players. Senor blues download sheet music pdf file score exchange. Sep 09, 2008 1997, horace silvers classic, from the grammy winning senor blues taj mahal. Kenny rampton with the jazz at lincoln center orchestra. The song fades out and ends on the verse chords and that is about it. Senor blues alternate 45 takerudy van gelder edition2000 digital remaster24bit mastering. The three best blues solo guitar exercises the best exercises that you could engage in to become more literate in you guitar solos, whatever level youre on are these. In this weeks guitar lesson ill break down a solo blues composition thats played in the key of e and explain where all of the licks come from so that you can connect them back to chord shapes.
Anyway, what one should remember about this is that there are a lot of bass walk downs in this song, and they are slow, as is the song. So you are starting to play your own blues guitar solos. Youll learn how to alternate between a shuffle rhythm and harmonized leads. As youll learn in this ebook, there are countless ways to form blues riffs and be creative with them. Some of the best story tellers were and are blues musicians. Musicnotes features the worlds largest online digital sheet music catalogue with over 300,000 arrangements available to print and play instantly. Click or tap on the transcription below to open a pdf for the 12 bar blues in a solo. Partitions jazz blues gratuites, free jazz sheet music, partituras gratis. If you ever feel like your solos are just a string of unconnected licks then this approach is a really good way of adding a bit of a storyline to your soloing. The slow blues in g jam track for solo 4 is a good one to practice on because its slow and the changes dont happen that fast.
Nov 04, 2016 another instrumental like the first instrumental verse 7 am senor, em senor, f c lets overturn these tables am disconnect these cables g f this place dont make sense to me no more dm am can you tell me what were waiting for, senor. Written for septet of upright bass with a duration of 3 mins. So if you would solo over a song in the key of a you could use the a minor pentatonic scale as well as the a major pentatonic scale. Blues guitar solo learn a long blues guitar solo full of cool blues guitar licks played by jimi hendrix, eric clapton, mark knopfler, b. See new and popular horace silver songs, uploaded by musescore users, connect with a community of musicians who love to write and play music. Then make sure you can play the g major blues sound. The examples well look at are there to spark your creativity in your rhythm guitar playing. Peter gunn theme guitar tab by the blues brothers with free online tab player. My name is sean clancy, creator of guitar freak workstation with sightreader master extreme. How to play more advanced blues guitar solos antony reynaert.
Jan 09, 2018 kenny rampton with the jazz at lincoln center orchestra. You can also get midi file, pdf and 300 online lessons for. This weeks guitar lesson is a solo acoustic blues composition in the key of a. All blues concert g7 on the miles davis columbia recording kind of blue 1959 miles davis 5 9. Solo guitar blues licks and solos 12bar blues guitar. That means first make sure you can play the g minor sound either using box 1 with the 1st finger or box 5 with the 3rd finger.
Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues. Download for free in pdf midi format, or print directly from our site. This solo gives you an example of how a simple lick or motif can be used as the basis for an entire 12 bar chorus of the blues. Purchase, download and print sheet music pdf file now. You may have bought your first guitar or bass and are wondering where to begin you may have been. You will learn a 3 chorus 36 bar solo that clearly demonstrates how the. Im assuming a little bit of basic knowledge and ability on the guitar. A jazz piano tutorial on how to play horace silvers great piano riff on his latin tune senor blues, including a transcription and some tips on how. A transcription of the solo i play in the video around 8. Senor blues sheet music for piano, trumpet, tenor saxophone. In the meanwhile there are lots of tutorial web sites and many videos on youtube about playing a solo.
Youll also learn how to relate each of these licks back to basic chord shapes so that you can use them when you improivse or write your own. Introduction why your guitar solos dont come close to the solos of great blues guitarists so you are starting to play your own blues guitar solos. King got his start in the early 1950s as the beale street blues boy, but rapidly became a national figure with an approach too broad to be pigeonholed by a particular geographic location. Mute or solo instruments of mp3s and transcribe songs chords from youtube. You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. If you want to check out an example solo that i wrote with three choruses on an f blues only using the arpeggio notes i have one available for sale in my store. Shop our newest and most popular horace silver sheet music such as song for my father, peace and nicas dream, or click the button above to browse all horace silver sheet music. In our catalog, you can find horace silver sheet music for piano, drums, flute, saxophone, trumpet, guitar and almost any other. A good blues guitar player doesnt need to be fast he needs to know when to play which note like a good storyteller without a book. Please write me a direct message if you have complains about this upload concerning. I happen to love the song and some of the album, itself to death. Their licks remain as the common language of the blues guitar solo style.
I hope you can use the arpeggios and these ideas to get a firmer grip on jazz blues improvising. Horace silvers piano riff on senor blues jazz piano lesson. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player. Horace silver sheet music free download in pdf or midi on. Mark watkins received his degrees from brigham young university and indiana university and has studied with eugene rousseau, daniel deffayet, ray smith, and yushi ishiwata and jazz with david baker. Im a midlevel electric blues guitarist who lacks bandmates and sort of wants to do the solo electric guitar thing ala john lee hooker. If you are playing solo, one cool idea is to use a drone approach. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. These chords, riffs and scales can be expanded in a.
E blues, position 1 12th fret easy blues guitar coach magazine more details. When i wrote this, i was a beginner myself, back in 1996. This chord progression is based around the most important chords. How to play blues rhythm guitar like the blues masters. Playing and improvising acoustic blues doug young acoustic blues workshop notes q 96 our goal is to be able to play a simple, but effective solo blues guitar piece, hopefully with some improvisation. One of the options that we can use to add more variation in our blues guitar soloing is to alternate between the minor pentatonic scale and the parallel major pentatonic scale. Heres a fun 12bar blues bass solo in the style of the classic blues song red house. It uses the blues scale, the minor pentatonic scale with the. Horace silver tabs, chords, guitar, bass, ukulele chords, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including song for my father, lonely woman, senor blues, sister sadie, the jody grind. Jan 05, 2018 in this weeks guitar lesson ill break down a solo blues composition thats played in the key of e and explain where all of the licks come from so that you can connect them back to chord shapes. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all. In our catalog, you can find horace silver sheet music for piano, drums, flute, saxophone, trumpet, guitar and almost any other instrument.
In this lesson we will look at how to use the major and minor blues sounds together in the key of g. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to. Play an open string and then let it ring out while you play melodies on the higher strings. Address 282g sno mark watkins received his degrees from brigham young university and indiana university and has studied with eugene rousseau, daniel deffayet, ray smith, and yushi ishiwata and jazz with david baker. Acoustic blues guitar lesson in a solo composition ep208. In fact there are so many other scales that we can use to solo over a blues progression, that it would be a pitty to only use one scale all of the time. Rock guitar heroes like jimmy hendrix, jimmy page, and eric clapton studied and borrowed from the blues masters buddy guy, muddy waters, albert king, and robert johnson to name a few. You can also get midi file, pdf and 300 online lessons for guitar, bass and keyboard. And no solo contains anything faster than an 18th note so any intermediate blues player can be jamming along and sounding great almost immediately. This is the sixth song off of dylans underrated street legal album. For blues books and sheet music you can buy check the blues guitar. This transcription is compliments of eric beaule, at. There are some small mistakes in the score, but it does not matter to watch or play it.
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