Tomorrow's Workshop – Complete Class Outline
Published: Fri, 09/22/23
Here is the complete rundown of what I'm going to cover in tomorrow's Minor Blues Chord Substitutions workshop. The accompanying 28-page PDF will include chord diagrams and/or charts of every voicing, example and 12- or 8-bar chorus covered in the live stream.
Topics in bold are complete full-chorus examples.
- Freddie Green chord voicings for Gmin6, Cmin6, D7/A, Eb7/B, Amin7 and G7
- Four-to-the-bar strumming technique
- Exercises for learning and changing new chord shapes
- Blues in G minor with i, iv and V chords
- Freddie Green chord voicings for V-i and ii-V-i resolutions
- Blues in G minor with V-i resolutions
- Blues in G minor with ii-V-i resolutions
- Freddie Green chord voicings for i-iv resolutions (secondary dominants)
- Freddie Green chord voicings for bVI-V tritone resolutions (and why they work)
- Blues in G minor with secondary dominant resolutions
- Minor inversions: Freddie Green chord voicing for Gmin/Bb
- Blues in G minor with minor inversions
- Dominant 7 inversions: Freddie Green chord voicings for G/B, G7/D
- The Wes Montgomery tritone ii-V
- Blues in G minor with dominant 7 inversions and tritone substitution ii-Vs
- Variations on line 1 (bars 1-4) of the blues in G minor
- Variations on line 2 (bars 5-8) of the blues in G minor
- Variations on line 3 (bars 9-12) of the blues in G minor
- 12-bar comping variations: mixing and matching every 4 bars
- 12-bar comping variations: mixing and matching every 2 bars
- "St. James Infirmary" with just i, iv and V chords
- "St. James Infirmary" with chord substitutions
- "House of the Rising Sun" with just i, iv and V chords
- "House of the Rising Sun" with chord substitutions
You can still sign up, at the link below. The two-hour live stream begins at 10:30am CDT on Saturday, September 23, and a complete on-demand replay will be be available for an entire year to anyone who registers.
Minor Blues Workshop Series
More soon,
David