i wan to spice my improv up a little. what are some guitarists who are known for using wacky sounding jazz licks over a typical SRV type of blues rythem?
any songs for examples?
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Jazz blues don't tend to be typical I-IV-V twelve bar progressions.
They tend to to add alot more chord motion and substititutions, creating a different harmonic back-drop. So the licks that jazz-blues players use aren't going to sound that great over a typical 12-bar texas blues progression. The underlying blues progression will be there, but it isn't the prominent harmonic feature.
However, there are plenty of great jazz-blues players out there!
Early Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Count Basie (as well as just about anyone else from the early kansas city jazz scene) have a lot of blues based songs you can get ideas from as it was an important component of Kansas City Jazz.
A great modern day player who uses a lot of blues influenced harmonic structures is Al DiMeola, but honestly for his stuff it's really reallyl hard to HEAR the blues influence without looking at some written music. The structure's there, but he plays with the harmonies so much that it's pretty well obscured.
The ohter sub-genre to open up to is Memphis blues, particularly the Beale street era stuff -- which is more strongly influenced by jazz than Texas blues.
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Don't think he's talking about jazz-blues, but jazzy-sounding blues.
No examples, but try moving between your typical minor pentatonic (or blues) scale and diminished (half tone - whole tone) and major pentatonic scales. With some experimentation, you should find it possible to a create jazzy or country or alt-jazz or alt-country feel.
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what's a diminished scale?
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what's a diminished scale?
A dimished scale is one that starts with a root note and then alternates between intervals of whole steps and half steps. You can start with either interval, and then just keep alternating. Consequently, you get two possible diminished scales with every root note.
Here are the two examples in the key of C:
C Dimished Scale (pattern 1 - whole step, half step)
C D Eb F Gb Ab A B C
C Dimished Scale (pattern 2 - half step, whole step)
C Db Eb E F# G A Bb C
Hope this helps.
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alternating whole steps and half steps. it has 9 notes instead of the usual 8
1 2 b3 4 b5 b6 6 7 octave
Maybe go a little chromatic as passing tones.
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