In our continuing journey into the cracks occupied between Jazz and Blues, I have included a free small guitar lesson (I have been asked to do this sort of thing for a while, honest!).
We are going to be looking at playing a blues in the key of A. As is common with alot of blues players I am going to be using ninth chords for my I and IV and V chords.
What is different is that we will substitute one bar of our V chord with the IIm7 (Bminor7). We are then going to add a turnaround that goes from A7, F#7, B7, E7 resolving to A7.
After the first substitution of the IIm7 we go to the V but then back to the I missing out the IV.
We finish with a guitar lick that you can work out for yourselves (go on it's fun).
Where is the relevence to the title you ask???. Listen to almost any Jazz Organ combo (Jimmy Smith, JackMcDuff, Jimmy McGriff etc) and this is how they often play a blues. Try this when jamming with friends to add a new level of sophistication to your playing (but what if it kills my feel man?, it won't).
This was played entirley fingerstyle, which I feel gives comping a more organ like feel due to damping and a fuller sound.
Included is a chord chart
