Advanced Guitar Player

OK here's the simplest of simple walking basslines for our Basic Jazz Blues in Bb - it can't really be called Jazz yet but everybody has to start somewhere!

The arrangement follows the arppeggios for the chord changes and has a comping chord on the offbeat triplet of on the first beat of each bar. The effect you get isn't too far away from the shuffle rhythm of something like B.B. King's version of Everyday I have The Blues - as it's really a practice introduction to comping and walking basslines, this seems to make a lot of sense to me.

I've already completed a bassline with chord inversions and a set of changes using chromatic chords for the Basic Jazz Blues in Bb so hopefully I'll have enough material to make a couple of videos soon.

As these Basic Bb Jazz Blues Lessons are evolving quite slowly, I've decided to post an update on the first lesson.

These Bb Blues changes are exactly the same as the ones in the first post except that the notation has a triplet feel and rather than playing the full eighth note you just play the first two thirds of it. This is pretty obvious really but as these lessons are designed for beginning jazz guitarists, it seemed to make sense to stress that the rhythm guitar has to swing.

Remember that this Lead Sheet was created using the Guitar Pro 6 Tablature Editor - I'll be loading up Guitar Pro Files to the Downloads Section of Advanced Guitar Player as soon as I've finished these series of lessons on the Basic Jazz Blues in Bb - you'll be able to open the files using other Tab Editors (Tux Guitar - excellent, open source and FREE!) but they won't sound as intended because everything is programmed using Guitar Pro's Realistic Sound Engine so why don't you click on THIS GUITAR PRO LINK and download the Trial Version!

This article is hopefully going be the first in a series of articles and videos centring on a Basic Jazz Blues in Bb.

As Advanced Guitar Player has been going for about 3 months now, I've decided that it's time to start creating guitar teaching and learning materials in earnest - otherwise the site will just end up being a crummy regurgitation of other things that can already be found on the Internet.

This set of Blues changes from rhythm guitar legend Freddie Green is the key to approaching Jazz Blues.