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  • #37045
    Anonymous

      when i get time i’ll put some one bar riffs in dropbox, for chords
      in G,C & D, and some two bar riffs in chirds G & C.

      If you’re improvising in 12 bar blues G for alto, you can try out starting with a one bar riff in the 1st chord (G) and use your imagination to improvise the rest of the 11 bars.

      i’ve some from my lessons to try out, but hope to start making up my own.

      I was hoping anyone else thats being doing the killer blues course or the major imptovisstion
      would have come up with some of their – assuming they got that far.

      Just trying to stir up some interest in this area.

      #37048
      Jazz Cat
      Participant

        great idea… a riff library of sorts, in G is great w/G 12bar blues notes… maybe we could all post ’em over time

        #37050
        William Cingolani
        Participant

          Sounds good to me. A library of 12 bar blues riffs.

          #37053
          john
          Keymaster

            I have 7 starter licks at the end of the Killer Blues book but they are written in C concert.
            If anyone who has the ebook wants to transpose them to G and share them here it’s ok by me.

            #37084
            Anonymous

              Excellent, hope to start trying out some 1 bar riffs for the 1st G7 bar chord in the 12 bar blues tracks in G major this week – using the G,C & D major scales and the basic blues in G or a mix of all three scales.

              #37170
              john
              Keymaster

                @sxpoet, when you say you’re practicing them in G do you mean G concert or are you playing them G on your alto? (so E concert)

                #37174
                Anonymous

                  Hi Johnny,
                  i’m practing in G on the alto.
                  Now that i’m using the mouthpiece
                  in the right position, i’ve got more of that blues sounding on the
                  sax,
                  Looking forward to spending a couple of hours tomorrow jamming
                  to a blues track & starting to
                  improvise.

                  #37241
                  Anonymous

                    Here are those starter licks in G for the Alto in a PDF document from Johnny’s Killer Blues Course.

                    I hope I got them right this time!

                    7 licks in G for the Eb Sax

                    #37245
                    Anonymous

                      Good work Jeff – i found that useful, i hope more people are encouraged to share their riffs particularly if they have been doing Johnny’s improvisation courses – be great to see them written down and even better to hear what they sound like – regardless of whether their uploads are polished performances (more interested in hearing their composition attempts, than hearing the errors/shortcomings in their playing – i’ll leave that to someone of Jf’s expertise to critique from now on.

                      I recently bought this book off the internet

                      https://improviseforreal.com/Products/e-book-improvise-real

                      not trying to plug it, but was surprised to see how close his approach is to mine – he takes any scale and renumbers it from 1 to however many letters there are in the scale and then superimposes it on a staircase
                      and gets you to move up and down the staircase numerically in steps rather than talking in flats and sharps or notes relative to a major scale. Interesting book.

                      #37249
                      john
                      Keymaster

                        My appologies Jeff! you were right with the 2nd email you sent me… I overlooked it.
                        Those that have the Killer Blues can see that the blues riffs given at the end of the ebook are written in C for tenor and in G for alto so the alto parts are already transposed it G.

                        Jeff, the above transposition you attached is in D. remember the riff in C starts the first 3 notes 5, 6, 1 which are G, A C
                        so to transpose that in G it would be D, E, G
                        since your current example starts with A, B D it means it’s in D
                        this is a good transposition lesson for anyone wanting to understand it.

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