10 Minute Jazz Lesson: Blues For Alice

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This week is all about the first 4 measures of one of my favorite Charlie Parker tunes, Blues For Alice. These measures provide a difficult descending chord progression that requires a closer look. We will be focusing on creating lines that lead seamlessly into one another to start developing an ear and a feel for the chords and start getting some vocabulary under our belt. Bird really has come up with an amazingly difficult reharm of the blues with this tune and anyone that is studying bebop or learning to play over tough changes needs to deal with this at some point. This chord progression is used over many of Bird’s tunes so it’s essential that we learn how to handle this particular set of chords. Enjoy the episode!
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This week is all about the first 4 measures of one of my favorite Charlie Parker tunes, Blues For Alice. These measures provide a difficult descending chord progression that requires a closer look. We will be focusing on creating lines that lead seamlessly into one another to start developing an ear and a feel for the chords and start getting some vocabulary under our belt. Bird really has come up with an amazingly difficult reharm of the blues with this tune and anyone that is studying bebop or learning to play over tough changes needs to deal with this at some point. This chord progression is used over many of Bird’s tunes so it’s essential that we learn how to handle this particular set of chords. Enjoy the episode!
WANT THE PDF THAT GOES ALONG WITH THIS EPISODE??
Head over to our Patreon page and when you donate $3 or more a month you get this PDF and every other. We will also be bringing you many extras exclusively to our patrons including transcriptions and a FREE gift of our latest Ebook, The Diatonic Method.
We hope that we bring you value every week here at the 10 Minute Jazz Lesson and we appreciate all of your support!
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[@OGStazzy]

You should make another video with all of the song. Nice teacher

[@AresJazzOfficial]

Complimenti, iscritto!

[@caryheuchert]

Great lesson for a great song!

[@marcosrodrigues6835]

Very good!! Thank's!

[@marcosrodrigues6835]

Thank you ! Very good! 👍👍👏👏👏👏🇧🇷

[@thomasroder6059]

nice and helpful, thoughtful and good

[@butterdrool991]

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[@nickmainella]

Thanks, man!