Blues in Ab Backing Track (minus Comp), Swing, 130 bpm

Jazz Blues Backing Track. A midtempo jazz blues for practicing: Blues melodies Improvising solos Working through difficult or unfamiliar keys Doubletime fragments Phrasing and timing Some things to try: Try improvising using only chord tones or guidetone lines Practice the question, question, answer phrasing that is indicative of the blues form. Work on integrating acquired licks or language over this form Dominant 7 options: Mixolydian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7, 1) Lydian b7 (1, 2, 3,, 4, 5, 6, b7) Melodic Dom. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1) Harmonic Dom. (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1) Altered (1, b2, ,2, 3, b5, ,5, b7) Halfwhole dim. (1, b2, ,2, 3,, 4, 5, 6, b7) Whole Tone (1, 2, 3,, 4,, 5, b7) Harmonic Major Dominant (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7) Practice moving from harmonic specific phrases (chordtone approach) to blues scale (minor pentatonic) phrases. Here are some variations of this t