LISTENING: INTERMEDIATE LESSONS
Lesson 1. Intro to Intermediate Lessons
2. Walking Bass T-Bone Walker “T-Bone Shuffle” Little Walter “My Babe”, “Juke”
3. Expanding the Boogie 1: Bass Variations Bill Doggett (Billy Butler, gtr) “Honky Tonk” Lazy Lester “I Hear You Knockin’” Albert King “Overall Junction” Fabulous Thunderbirds (Jimmy Vaughan, gtr) “She’s Tuff”
4. Expanding the Boogie 2: Rhythm Fills Robert Johnson “Sweet Home Chicago” Elmore James “Dust My Broom” Jimmy Reed “High and Lonesome,” “Baby What You Want Me to Do” Fabulous Thunderbirds “She’s Tuff,” “Marked Deck” Lou Ann Barton (w/SRV) “Sugar Coated Love,” “Natural Born Lover”
5. Expanding the Boogie 3: Compound Patterns Otis Spann (pno), Robert Lockwood (gtr) “It Must Have Been the Devil” Little Walter (Jimmy Rogers & David Myers, gtrs) “You’re So Fine”
6. Bass Riffs Otis Rush “It Takes Time” Freddie King “I’m Tore Down” Stevie Ray Vaughan “Cold Shot” Albert King “Overall Junction,” “Look Out” (Live Wire/Blues Power)
7. Riff Chords 1: Three Little Chords Little Walter (Robert Lockwood, gtr) “My Babe” Little Milton “I Feel So Bad”
8. Riff Chords 2: Phrasing Variations Larry Davis (Fenton Robinson, gtr) “Texas Flood” Little Walter (Robert Lockwood, gtr) “Shake Dancer” Hound Dog Taylor/Luther Allison/Stevie Ray Vaughan “Give Me Back My Wig”
9. Horn Riff Variations BB King “Every Day I Have the Blues” (Live at the Regal) Albert King “Overall Junction” (“Look Out” from Live Wire/Blues Power”: rhythm guitar plays horn fig’s) Little Walter (Robert Lockwood, gtr) “Shake Dancer”
10. Turnarounds 1: Classic Jimmy Reed “Good Lover” Robert Johnson “Kindhearted Woman Blues” intro “Sweet Home Chicago” open position Muddy Waters “Stuff You Gotta Watch” Jimmy Rogers “That’s Alright”
11. Turnarounds 2: Single-Note Jimmy Reed (Eddie Taylor, gtr) “You Don’t Have to Go” Little Walter (Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers gtrs) “Can’t Hold Out Much Longer” Lou Ann Barton (SRV, gtr): “Natural Born Lover”
12. Blues Arrangements: Intros and Endings Intros From the five: Freddie King “Side Tracked,” “I’m Tore Down” (King Records) Little Walter (Luther Tucker, Fred Robinson gtr) “Worried Life” From the turnaround: Freddie King “Tore Down” (Shelter Records version) Freddie King “Manhole” (King Records) Fats Domino “Blue Monday” Endings Break on bar 10: Jimi Hendrix “Red House” Tag ending: Junior Parker (Pat Hare, gtr) “Next Time You See Me”
13. Eight-bar Blues 1: Form and Rhythm Leroy Carr (Scrapper Blackwell, gtr) “How Long Blues” Big Maceo (Tampa Red gtr) “Worried Life Blues” Little Walter (Muddy Waters, Luther Tucker gtrs) “Key to the Highway”
14. Eight-bar Blues 2: Soloing Freddie King: “Worried Life Blues,” “Key to the Highway” Little Walter (Muddy Waters, Luther Tucker gtrs) “Key to the Highway”
15. Sixteen-bar Blues 1: Form and Rhythm Little Walter (Robert Lockwood gtr) “My Babe” Sister Rosetta Tharpe “This Train” Lonnie Johnson, Snooks Eaglin “Careless Love” B.B.King “Help the Poor”
16. Sixteen-bar Blues 2: Soloing Same as Lesson 15
17. Blues Arranging Summary Listen to any recording listed and focus on how rhythm instruments create textures and dynamics
18. Hybrid Picking Stevie Ray Vaughan “Cold Shot” Buddy Guy “Leave My Girl Alone” Lonnie Mack “Why,” “The Bounce”
19. Snap, Slap, and Rake Albert Collins “Collins Shuffle” Gatemouth Brown “Boogie Uproar” Johnny Guitar Watson “Hot Little Mama” BB King “The Thrill is Gone,” “Sweet Little Angel” Otis Rush “I Want You to Love Me” Snooks Eaglin “Sophisticated Blues”
20. Big Bends Albert King “Drowning on Dry Land,” “Personal Manager,” “Look Out” (Live Wire/Blues Power) Video: “In Session” with Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan: compare bending techniques
21. Chord Tones: 3rd and 7th T-Bone Walker “T-Bone Shuffle” Louis Jordan, B.B.King “Caldonia”
22. 12-bar Chord Tone Phrasing BB King “Early Every Morning,” “Ain’t That Just Like a Woman”
23. Pickup Phrases Listen to any classic blues solo; particularly the opening phrase
24. Blues Melody: Core and Color
25. Phrasing with the Sixth BB King “Sweet Little Angel” Freddie King “Hide Away”
26. Phrasing with the Ninth T-Bone Walker “Mean Old World” Gatemouth Brown “Mary is Fine” Freddie King “Side Tracked”
27. Blues Tonality Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” 28. Exploring the Neck: the CAGED System
29. Pattern 4 Lower Octave: Down and Dirty Freddie King “Sen-Sa-Shun,” “The Stumble,” “Side Tracked” Gatemouth Brown “Boogie Uproar” Albert Collins “Don’t Lose Your Cool,” “Collins Shuffle” Earl Hooker “The Hucklebuck,” “Frog Hop” Anything by Duane Eddy
30. Pattern 5: the Albert Spot Albert King “Crosscut Saw,” “Personal Manager,” “Oh Pretty Woman” Albert Collins “Frosty”
31. Pattern 1: the BB Spot BB King “Worry, Worry” (Live at the Regal)
32. Pattern 2: the A Shape Jimmy Rogers “That’s All Right” Freddie King “The Stumble” Lightnin’ Hopkins “Short Haired Woman”
33. Pattern 3: the G Shape Eric Clapton w/the Bluesbreakers “Hide Away” Allman Bros. (Dickie Betts, gtr) “Statesboro Blues”
34. Outside the Box 1: Connecting Patterns
35. Outside the Box 2: the Six-Fret Method
36. Outside the Box 3: Soloing on One String Guitar Slim “The Things That I Used to Do” Clapton/Cream “I’m So Glad”
37. Summary