More Before the Blues Scale Licks and Solo
As in Exercises 13 and 18, these Licks 32a through 32f and the solo that they compose will provide useful preparation for learning to create solos from the Blues Scale. However, the entire Blues Scale may not be used until the technique of bending notes has been mastered.
In Solo Exercise 32, two variations of the twelve bar blues verse composed from the above licks are presented. In the first, Lick 32a is used to end the verse. In the second verse, a slide from the 3i to 1i replaces the 2i to provide a more emphatic finale to the verse.
Note: In the second verse of Solo No.32, a variation is presented in the final bar, to produce a sense of completion for the solo, as follows.
- The "Play-Along" section included here consists of four medium-slow blues verses in Cross or Second position (key of G.) Play any Cross or Second position solos here.
Class Sessions
1- PART FOUR
2- PART ONE
3- PART THREE
4- INTRODUCTION
5- PART TWO
6- Which Harmonica To Use With This Book
7- More Trains, Trills and Whistles
8- The Blues Riff Blues Licks and Solo
9- The Five to Three Blues: Take Two
10- The Five to Three Licks and Solo
11- The Notation System Used In This Book
12- Trills and Whistles
13- The Plus One Licks and Solo
14- The Cross Arpeggiated Twelve Bar Blues Licks and Solos: Take Three
15- Adding Licks to the Stop Time Blues
16- The Cross Arpeggiated Twelve Bar Blues Licks and Solos: Take Four
17- Harmonica Technique
18- Train Variations
19- The Two Timing Cross Blues Solo, with Licks
20- The Bar by Bar Blues Solo
21- Wahs in Licks
22- Yo Whistles
23- The Bare Bones Blues Licks and Solo
24- Three Position Hand to Mouth Blues
25- The Scale Prep Blues Licks and Solo
26- The Five to Three Blues Solo, with Licks
27- Yo The Blues: Licks and Solo
28- Jumping and Single Note Practice
29- The Jump to Six Trilling Blues Licks and Solo
30- Additional Single Note Practice
31- The Jump to Six Wah Wah Blues Licks and Solo
32- The Mo’ Yo Blues Licks and Solo
33- More Before the Blues Scale Licks and Solo
34- The Slide to Four Licks and Solo
35- The Slide to Four Blues, with Sliding Licks
36- Simplest First Position Blues Licks and Solo
37- The Stop Time Twelve Bar Blues
38- The Arpeggiated First Position Blues Licks and Solos: Takes One and Two
39- Simplest Third Position Blues Licks and Solo
40- Preparing for the Third Position Blue Scale
41- The Arpeggiated Third Position Licks and Solo
42- The High End Third Position Blues Scale
43- The Jumping First Position Single Note Blues Licks and Solo
44- Saint James Infirmary, With Riffs
45- Saint James Improvery
46- Other Progressive Harmonica Instruction Methods