Hayden Hill
Hayden founded PianoGroove in 2015 with the goal of making the world a more musical place. He shares his love for jazz piano through his online courses and manages the community area of PianoGroove.
May 8 · 2024
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Learn common substitutions for the 12 bar blues in C. We explore diminished chords, walk-ups, iv minor chord, backdoor 251s, and chromatic dominants.
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SCOTT BOWLINGER says
Welcome…thanks for the seminar, Hayden! Good to see you!
Hayden says
Hey Scott 👋
Nice to hear from you.
I have just added the chapter markings to the seminar to better navigate the contents.
I also added blue highlights to the notation throughout the video.
Talk soon!
Hayden
wendy says
Hi Hayden. Working my way through this seminar. It’s ifun, but a bit of a struggle for me. It would be very helpful if you could add a pdf in the key of C which parallels page 2 of the Suspended Trial Fills pdf (in F) from the Slow Blues Beginners course. Thanks in advance.
wendy says
I think I worked it out. Just took a while.
Hayden says
Hey Wendy 👋
I hope you’re well!
Yes I will ensure all of the notation is created with the course coming shortly, and that it follows the same style as the F Slow Blues PDF files.
It is a good exercise to try to visualise this without notation, although I appreciate it can be a little slow to start with. Always think the triad built a 4th up from the root, then put the top note on the bottom to get the second inversion.
We can also visualise it as the top 2 notes moving, for example if we take a C triad in root position (C-E-G) and move the middle note up a half step, and the top note up a full step, we then have C-F-A which is the triad built a 4th up in its second inversion. Repeating this for all 3 chords in the blues could be a nice warm up visualisation drill.
I’m aiming to get the first series of C Blues lessons published this month – more updates to follow!
Talk soon, Hayden
edwin1 says
You have not discussed blues shuffles. Are these shuffles comparable with the style that you are teaching? If they are, will you include a discussion of them? Thanks