How Many Bars in a Blues (performance)
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Kay CharltonKay Charlton performs 'How Many Bars in a Blues', a rock and roll-flavoured 12-bar blues, on trumpet - play along with the notation.
What's in the course
16 lessons (0h 51m) · 1 free
01. Welcome to Are You Ready
1:17
02. I Can Play In Three (performance)
1:36
03. I Can Play In Three (analysis)
Free lesson3:16
04. How Many Bars in a Blues (performance)
You are here1:40
05. How Many Bars in a Blues (analysis)
6:23
06. Lay Down The Bass (performance)
2:51
07. Lay Down The Bass (analysis)
5:01
08. Eastern Promise (performance)
2:23
09. Eastern Promise (analysis)
4:40
10. Are You Ready (performance)
2:32
11. Are You Ready (analysis)
5:49
12. Scale It (performance)
2:48
13. Scale It (analysis)
2:03
14. Question and Answer (performance)
2:52
15. Question and Answer (analysis)
6:05
16. Congratulations on finishing the course!
0:40
Lesson transcript
How Many Bars in a Blues?
So this next song is called How Many Bars in a Blues?
The answer is, of course, 12 bars in a blues. It's a 12-bar blues.
Style
This song is in a kind of rock and roll, jazzy style.
New Note
It uses a new note, F, which is going to be our new highest note. We'll talk about that in a minute.
Instructions
Let's play the song:
- 4-bar introduction
- Do the tune twice
- Through.
Here we go
Your turn, my turn.
And that's the blues!
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Kay is a trumpet player, composer and teacher of brass and curriculum music, specialising in primary classroom teaching - KS2, First Access/WCET (whole-class ensemble teaching, where a class learns an instrument together) and teacher CPD (continuing professional development). She completed a Masters in Music Education - 'Teaching Musician' at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2018.
Kay plays trumpet with the Bollywood Brass Band, a 9-piece band of brass and drums whose 2017 CD Carnatic Connection was nominated for a Songlines Magazine 'World Music Award' and given a 5-star review in the London Evening Standard. Kay composes and arranges for the band and leads on their education work, founding the Bollywood Brass Academy in 2017.
Kay has presented her research into whole-class teaching at the Music Education Expo and the First Access Forum. She has designed and led CPD for LSO Discovery, Trinity College London, Music Education Solutions and the Bollywood Brass Band, and is an education consultant for Warwick Music.
Kay's book of beginner repertoire, 'Are You Ready?', is published by Warwick Music; in 2017 Kay was commissioned by Warwick Music and Music Education Solutions to compose songs for a new KS1 scheme of work for the pBuzz, which was nominated as 'Education Resource of 2018' by the 'Education Awards'.
Other publications include pieces for Trinity's Initial (2015/2018) and Grade 1 (2018) piano syllabus, Bollywood Blast! (Spartan Press) - a series of brass and wind tutor books with backing tracks in a Bollywood style - and Whole Class Bollywood Blast with David Rose (Bedford Music Hub), which is aimed at teachers of whole-class instrumental lessons and includes an Arts Award Discover programme.
Her MusicGurus courses bring that classroom experience straight to you: from your very first trumpet lesson through two sets of tunes for beginners, Kay sets out exactly what to play and how to play it.
