My suggestion is to have more the whole sheet moving with the fingerings, rather than only the basic form.
In my experience i love when having those video , taking a part to loop it . For the blues the basic form pretty obvious so not sure its really help much . Maybe just having a second color to add the basic chord at the top of the sheet music , if it could help ?
For me the great of those video is being able to loop some part , even not having to look for the chart . Without having to load the midi files into my DAW (not sure lot of student does it )
Seing the videos this way with only the hands moving for me looks weird, like the video feel empty without the full notes chartā¦ I find even better to have only the pdf and an audio files ā¦ ye for me the videos seems quite useless without the charts sliding with the hands.
But if i am the only one ā¦
Whatever Those news lessons sound great again ! Bravo
Thanks Pierrot - we will keep that in mind with the editing.
As mentioned all of the performances and demonstrations will be notated and available in PDF format in the downloads section along with the audio files.
We have used some of the full graphics in the actual lessons, and I will share a few lessons here in the coming weeks before they are finalised and published to get any final feedback on the layout and structure.
I have just finished editing Kyleās Gospel/Blues course, you can find it here:
The editing on Jonās course is around half finished. With the above course published I will double up with the editor to get Jonās course finished as a priority.
I plan to make the first 6 lessons available shortly which focus on the 12 bar blues - the other 6 lessons on the 8 bar blues will take a little longer.
Thanks for your patienceā¦ itās been a bit of a juggling act this month with the editing and live seminars taking place.
Iām glad to hear you enjoyed the blues seminar yesterday.
On a related note we are creating āmini studiesā which are edited after the streams and additional graphics and transcriptions are added where relevant.
If there are any sections of the live streams that you think would be suited to these āmini studiesā send the timestamps over to me. It will be really nice to have these all in one place with relevant downloads and notation etcā¦
We have just published the first draft of Jonās 12 bar blues lessons here:
I still need to export and upload MIDI files and audio files of the performances and add these as downloads. The PDF notation for each lesson is uploaded as a single document in the downloads section of each page. I will split these documents into multiple PDFs.
There is also a final lesson in this course āPutting Everything Togetherā which will be added shortly.
This is just half of the footage we recorded but it sits nicely as a focused course on the 12-bar blues form. With the other 6 lessons we will create a focused course on New Orleans Style 8-Bar Blues - this is being edited, notated, and uploaded and I will post here as soon as it is ready.
In the interim, enjoy the 12-bar blues lessons above!
Hereās a taster of Jonās 8 Bar Blues Course which will be ready in the next week or so.
I really like this style of blues with rich harmony and lots of jazzy passing chords
For these lessons we will mainly show the 8 bar form with chord symbols for the graphics. Where relevant we will show the notation/voicings in a similar format to this lesson on 12 Bar Blues Passing Chords. The performances and demos will be available in PDF and MIDI format in the lesson downloads.
If anyone has any feedback on the 12 bar blues course donāt hesitate to let me know. Or if there any parts of the lessons that you would like to see notated etcā¦
Wow i just see the Blues and gospel Walk up ā¦ the editing with alternating full sheet music and leadsheet looks great and wise. bravo !
and the content is really tasty too
Awesome, thanks for letting me know Pierrot - most of the lessons in the gospel blues course have been edited in this format with a mixture of notation and the plain form.
You can also find all of the notation from the videos in the PDF downloads.
Iāve been exploring the new material today and itās all great! Not sure if this is the right place to ask about this, but any chance of Jon running a blues classroom? The courses are brilliant, but I tend to get over enthusiastic and skip around, so the structure of a classroom would be really helpful.
Iām glad to hear you are enjoying the new blues lessons @JJC
Thanks for the suggestion with the blues classroom - thatās something we can look into. At the moment we just have the monthly seminar slot with Jon, the next session is in 6 days and you can submit any questions here:
Iām sure Jon can give you some great advice on how to structure practice time perhaps on daily/weekly/monthly basis - that would be a great question to submit.
I am also turning some of the seminar content into āmini practice studiesā here:
There are a few new lessons for this course in the pipeline on the following topics:
Hand Independence
Boogie-Woogie patterns
Turnarounds
This course will be a nice resource with specific guidance on how to practice certain elements of the New Orleans piano style.
Hello Hayden ,Iām working thru the F blues soloing course & looking thru these new lessons also that look very interesting. Please could we look at some Bebop Blues etudeās in Bb sometime to pick up vocabulary in that key also?
Thanks for bumping this to my attention. I just last week finalised Jon Clearyās course with the the final transcriptions and downloads. I also combined the lessons into a single course as I feel it fits together better that way:
This morning I brought in another editor to help with Joshās course and started work with the transcriptions. It has my full attention now. I will hear back shortly on the transcriptions and editing, and I will share an ETA with you.
Hi Hayden, yes with backing tracks similar to the F Blues improv course. If possible, to learn a solo over the full form of a Bb blues by using one(or more) of your improv techniques. That would be great thank you.
I have just published 2 of Joshās lessons, these are on the 8 bar blues form āTipitinaā, and a slow 12 bar blues in F - check out the links below.
The other 8 lessons - which are the main theme of the course - are in progress. Iām waiting on the notation to be completed.
In the 2 lessons below, Josh uses a lot of 10th intervals in his left hand. On a related note I recently created a lesson on 10th intervals using the tune āGeorgiaā - the lesson page is also included below.
Bravo
