I have chosen this particular piece to transcribe because it will help to ingrain the lessons you have studied in our ‘Memorising Chord Changes‘ course. Blue Seven is a simple 12 bar blues form with some classic Sonny Rollins language, short punchy phrases that are packed full of harmonic inventiveness.
Let’s get started…
Blue Seven is a simple 12 bar blues form, but Sonny REALLY shows us how to swing…
In this video lesson I take you back through Clip 1 showing you how you can utilise what Sonny plays as a spring board for your own soloing. We also deal with Clip 2 which starts on an Augmented triad.
This Clip from Blue Seven is difficult, but that doesn’t mean we should shy away from it!
I hope you’ve managed to take your time to work through the first lesson on Clip 3? If so, here is the second lesson on Clip 3. Sonny is still playing in semi-quavers, (16th notes for our American & European Students!)
I’ve heard your cries for help! Lesson 3 of this course was proving a little difficult so in Lesson 5 I’ve got something that should help.
This is the final lesson on our Blue Seven transcription project.
I stumbled across this album of Mark’s on Apple Music when driving back from my parents after a family visit. I’ve been a fan of Mark’s playing for years and this rendition of ‘Skylark’ just blew me away.
In this course, we are going to transcribe Blues Walk by the legendary saxophonist, Lou Donaldson. It’s a real ‘Tour de Force’ of Blues playing that will really enhance not only your blues vocabulary but your phrasing, time feel, and much more!
The Jazz Standard ‘Autumn Leaves’ was composed by Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma in 1946. Kosma was a native of Hungary who was introduced to Prévert in Paris. They collaborated on the song Les Feuilles mortes (“The Dead Leaves”) for the 1946 film Les Portes de la nuit (Gates of the Night) where it was sung […]