BLUES EMAIL COURSE
General - Description - Lesson Topics

Easy to follow lessons of quality music education, usually only taught at Jazz Colleges

General
Now available as direct download (for PC or Mac) or, if you prefer, sent to you by Airmail on a CD.
All lessons at your finger tips to work at your own pace if you prefer. But you may recieve regular lessons by email as well, just to help you keep your practice momentum going !

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Example of a typical Comment
Dear Mr Furstner, just want to give you some feedback on my progress. I was very reluctant about doing this course, as I thought it was just like all the others. I can't actually believe it but I am improvising!

There is a lot of material to absorb, but to do it at my own pace is fantastic. Of all the books I have purchased, this is the one and only course I can actually say I am really getting something out of. Its also very helpful to have you there to answer questions. David - Sydney

The Chords Basics and Improvisation Email Courses are no longer distributed by email, but their email versions are still included in resp. the Jazz Theory and Improvisation Courses

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Course Description - Course Topics

Description
The Blues Basics Email Course consists of 10 lessons, available as part of the Jazclass Improvisation Package or Jazclass COMPLETE
You receive the text of each Lesson by Email, at the rate of one new Lesson each 14 days. This leaves you plenty of time for study and practice. (The lesson texts are also included on the download or CD so that you can progress at your own pace if you prefer.)

Besides the lesson texts the Course Library contains all Audio demos, songs, play-a-long midi files and sheet music (for C-, Bb- and Eb- instruments).

At the end of this Course you will have a clear understanding of the most common chord progressions of the twelve bar blues and the various approaches for creative blues improvisation.

The skill of improvisation takes longer to develop than the duration of a single course. However the Blues Basics Email Course will get you well on the way and the material provided will guide your further progress long after completion of the last lesson.

  • Blues Basics is suitable for players of all instruments.
    Some knowledge of the keyboard is useful but not necessary.

  • The course focuses on the melodic and improvisation aspects of the twelve bar blues.
    It explains the various popular chord progressions and scales for the blues, and how to use these in improvisation.

  • Emphasis is on the Blues in the keys of G, C and F.
    Appropriate Play-a-Long midi files are provided for all instruments.

  • Each lesson includes at least one new blues song.

  • Midi files of 50 Audio Demos are also included to illustrate various aspects.

  • Swapping 2s and 4s : a great new feature of the Blues Basics Email Course.

  • You may ask me questions about anything you do not understand.

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Lesson Topics
The lesson topics for the Blues Basics Email Course are :

  • Lesson  1 -  Basic Blues Format (Triad Blues)

  • Lesson  2 -  Swing Quavers (Swing Quavers Blues)

  • Lesson  3 -  Syncopation (Cheeky Blues - Frosty)

  • Lesson  4 -  7th Chords Blues (Take Seven - Lines for Nines)

  • Lesson  5 -  Minor Pent. Blues (Bad Man Blues)

  • Lesson  6 -  Blues Scale Blues (Don't Nag Me Blues)

  • Lesson  7 -  Mixolydian Blues (Rain Forest Blues)

  • Lesson  8 -  Embellished Blues (Chasing the Blues) - Blues waltz (Porqué)

  • Lesson  9 -  Lydian Blues (Quirky Blues)

  • Lesson 10 -  Minor Blues (Blues for Wally)
The Blues Basics - Primer is a modified web version of Blues Basics - Lesson 1.

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