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Licks Note Blues in D

The document provides notation for 18 short piano exercises exploring blues and jazz techniques. The exercises demonstrate different approaches to constructing blues lines using elements like the major and minor blues scales, blue notes, chromatic passages, encircling ideas, and sequencing motifs at different pitch levels. The final exercise is labeled "Testifyin'" and combines several techniques into a longer concluding line.

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Licks Note Blues in D

The document provides notation for 18 short piano exercises exploring blues and jazz techniques. The exercises demonstrate different approaches to constructing blues lines using elements like the major and minor blues scales, blue notes, chromatic passages, encircling ideas, and sequencing motifs at different pitch levels. The final exercise is labeled "Testifyin'" and combines several techniques into a longer concluding line.

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LICKS NOTE BLUES

En D

Piano

Major Blues Scale

Blue 3rds & 7ths

Minor with Major answer

Combination

with Major answer


Minor

Longer line created out of previous exercises

Minor Blues Scale

Major Blues Line

Playing Chromatically to the 5th & 7th


8


10

Chromatic Approach

1 to 5 and back

2
11

12

Encircling idea

13

Emphasizes the major 6 and b3

14

Chromatic PT to b7

Ends with ambiguous 9th

Longer lines created from combinations of previous ideas

15

16

One good closing or ending line

17

Sequencing an idea at different pitch levels

18

Testifyin'

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