New Orleans Rhythms
By now you should be getting pretty good at playing the shuffle in the keys of both C and G. In this lesson you will learn a new rhythm pattern called the New Orleans Rhumba.When playing shuffles, all of the 8th notes are swung. However, with this new rhythm we will be using straight 8th notes. Practice once again the difference between straight and swing 8th notes.
One of the most distinctive elements of the New Orleans Rhumba sound is the bass line which is played by the left hand. Here it is in the key of C.
Practicing the last four bars of any 12 Bar Blues is a useful exercise, as it covers all three chords as well as the turnaround.
In this example the left hand plays the rhumba bass line and the right hand plays 7th chords.
Class Sessions
1- Shuffle in the Key of G
2- Using Ties
3- Improvisation
4- Chord Inversions
5- Blues Using Inversions
6- Chord Numbers
7- Broken Chords
8- Grace Notes
9- New Notes, Keys and Rhythms
10- The Key of G
11- Chords and Blues Notes
12- Broken Chords in G
13- The Blues Scale in G
14- Two Octave Blues Scale
15- Seventh Chords
16- Blues Using 7th Chords
17- Mixing Chords and Scales
18- New Orleans Rhythms
19- More New Orleans Style Blues
20- Combining Melodies and Accompaniment
21- Left Hand Chords
22- Blue Notes
23- The Blues Scale
24- 12 Bar Blues Using the Shuffle Rhythm
25- Using the Blues Scale
26- The 12 Bar Blues
27- Left Hand Accompaniment
28- Blues Scale Riffs with Accompaniment
29- The Major Chord
30- INTRODUCTION
31- Blues Rhythms, New Sounds
32- The Triplet
33- Blues Runs Using Triplets
34- Swing Rhythms
35- Enharmonic Notes
36- The 7th in the Left Hand Part
37- New Orleans Rhythm in G
38- G<sup>7</sup> Chord Inversions
39- Riffs
40- Section 1 Summary
41- The Turnaround
42- The Shuffle
43- The C<sup>7</sup> Chord
44- The D<sup>7</sup> Chord
45- The F<sup>7</sup> Chord