Friday, September 12th: Jazz Band Rehearsal

Our rehearsal on Friday suffered a little bit as some people had difficult interpretting the materials I presented. As I get to know all of you more -THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN. Thanks to everyone for their patience.

In order to make sure that this does not happen next week, I will post below exactly what EVREYONE should work on during the course of the week and be able to play on FRIDAY, September 19th.

Guitarists: We had difficulty translating chords that we know into the key of Bb. Our task for friday is to be able to play the three chords of a twelve bar blues in Bb by friday. Those chords are Bb7, Eb7 and F7. Follow this link to view exactly how to make these chords. (be sure to zoom in on the image if you are having trouble reading it.) Look at the top of the page and you will see fingering charts for these three chords. Follow these links and you can hear music that goes along with line A and line B. DO THESE THREE THINGS: 1.Practice the 3 chords. 2. Play along with the recording for line B. 3. Play along with the recording for line B.

Pianists: You need to be able to play the three chords for our 12-bar blues: Bb7, Eb7 and F7.

Each chord contains 4 notes:

Bb7= Bb, D, F, Ab

Eb7= Eb, G, Bb, Db

F7= F, A, C, Eb

Make sure you can play these 3 chords by Friday. Be able to play them with BOTH HANDS!

Bassists: Follow this link for tabs that will help you play a walking bass line for our 12-bar blues. Make sure you can play this by Friday.

Post any questions here.