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Lesson time: (3min 2sec)
Ollie presenta el blues y demuestra el tema Leaving Town
This lesson is part of the course Exploring Jazz Saxophone: Parte 1 - Primeros pasos
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Lesson transcript:
In this lesson, we're going to look at the blues. A study of jazz would be incomplete without some background knowledge of the blues, like a kind of musical DNA that runs through the music of the last hundred years.
Very few styles of popular music have not been touched by the blues. Genres such as:
All bear the influence of the blues.
Some notable artists who have absorbed this style include:
The list of icons is endless!
Legend has it that guitarist Robert Johnson met with the devil, selling his soul in exchange for guitar prowess in return for a new style of music: the blues.
In this lesson, we will:
I will start by playing two versions of a tune called "Leaving Town," which is influenced by the great blues musicians Robert Johnson and singer Bessie Smith. We will contrast these two versions and examine how the blues can be used effectively.
Play along: 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4.
So that's a blues in D. It's called a 12-bar blues, which we'll explore a bit later.
It is in D, so I'm playing F sharps and C sharps according to the key signature. Notice the structure of the blues as well, it's divided into three four-bar sections:
Now, I will play a bluesed-up version of "Leaving Town." Hopefully, you'll hear the blues sound that I've referred to with Robert Johnson and his meeting with the devil.
Play along: 1, 2, 3, 4.
I hope you agree that the second version sounds more authentic and more bluesy.
So why is that? Let's have a look at how a blues scale is constructed and create some bluesy-sounding lines.
Desde que se graduó en el Leeds College of Music (BA Hons) y en la Guildhall School of Music (Post Graduate Diploma in Performance), Ollie ha construido una carrera intensa y variada en la música. Como saxofonista ha actuado en directo y en estudio con artistas tan diversos como Amy Winehouse, Tim Minchin, Bonobo, Frank Turner, la London Jazz Orchestra, la Hackney Colliery Band, el Ambient Jazz Ensemble y la Nelson Riddle Orchestra. También es colíder del cuarteto de jazz 'Time Is Of The Essence', y compone y arregla material para esta y otras agrupaciones. Ollie está activo en la educación musical, actualmente como responsable del curso del departamento de jazz de la Guildhall School of Music and Drama (escuela junior), donde dirige conjuntos de jazz, big band y clases de teoría. Ha escrito una serie de libros 'Exploring Jazz' para Schott Music que se publican en todo el mundo y figuran en los temarios de examen del Reino Unido. Ollie también ha impartido talleres para la Oxford University, Pro Corda Strings y BABSWE, así como en las escuelas de verano de la Guildhall School of Music. En sus cursos Exploring Jazz Saxophone, Ollie te lleva desde los primeros pasos hasta improvisar con confianza sobre canciones y secuencias de acordes, desarrollando las habilidades de improvisación que ponen a tu alcance el vocabulario de un auténtico músico de jazz. read more
