Tom Snow

piano

Piano F.A.Q.s: Blues – Getting Started: Making Melodic Connections (lesson 3)

This is a fun lecture that takes the given blues melody and adds more melodic tones to create a new, interesting, florid melodic structure. I introduce four different strategies each of which produces a unique, delightful outcome! This forty-minute lesson is packed with information and also has nine accompanying pdfs.

Files

Audio Play along: CT’s ConnectionsDownload
3.1: Lesson – Add to given melodic rhythmDownload
3.2 Lesson: Adding notesDownload
3.3 Lesson: C.T.’s connections tone chordsDownload
3.4 Theory: Chord scalesDownload
3.5 Lesson: C.T.’s Connections mixolydianDownload
3.6 Lesson: C.T.’s Connections blues scaleDownload
3.7 Theory: chromatic approach notesDownload
3.8 Lesson: C.T.’s Connections with chromatic approachDownload
3.9 Worksheet: C.T.’s Connections you composeDownload