Bb Blues improv exercise · Jazz Guitar Accelerator

Bb Blues improv exercise

The second in the "sleeping dog sessions"...

A while back I wanted to focus on improv over a Bb blues progression (a short form and in memory). My goal was to develop a palette of reusable approaches I could combine (ideally in real-time) for simple, target-based improv.

As I was working on this,

@Coach Gabriel Sebrian

gave three valuable improv workshops (visual pathways, chromatic approach Bb Blues, and the connector method). I practiced and integrated them into an improv exercise using the different targeting approaches.

After quite some time, I still struggle even at this slow pace to not get lost (I do here the fourth time through) while trying to avoid repeating approaches. Overall, I have mixed feelings about the return on investment and whether this was the most effective/efficient approach. As I have played this so many, many times, it is also starting to feel canned or pre-baked: certain patterns or lines have formed that I have locked onto.

TLDR; looking for some feedback, ideas and directions I can go. What say ye, JGA?

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Bb Blues improv exercise