Are you unsure which blues progressions are actually used in jazz—beyond the basic form? From simple blues harmony to Parker’s back-cycling changes and Coltrane-style suspended variations, it’s hard to know what to study and how it all fits together.
Solution
This resource is a definitive guide to blues harmony in jazz, presenting the essential progression types every serious player needs to know—clearly organized, explained, and demonstrated through real musical contexts.
You’ll see how Jazz greats players expanded, reharmonized, and reinterpreted the blues, so you can understand why each version works and when to use it.
Designed for
Serious players who want to remove guesswork from their blues improvisation and fully immerse themselves in the harmonic language of the blues as it’s actually played by professionals.
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Here for the first time, the DEFINITIVE Blues harmony guide to all the chord options serious students of Jazz need to know.
The study of these tried and tested progressions taken from the Great American Jazz continuum will deepen your understanding of harmony, taking your musicianship/improvisation to a much higher level, whilst training your ear!
Eleven of the most Important Blues progressions heard in thousands of Jazz/Blues classics are fully explained in a clear logical order.
Its like a super condensed stand alone Blues course!
This meticulously prepared instant digital package contains the following items that will provide a wealth of material to practice and guarantee an enjoyable immersion in the Blues:
- 33 Choruses of specially written solos full of real Jazz language that accentuate the colourful chord changes providing examples of how to play over the changing harmony featuring lines from the following greats: Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Sidney Bechet, Pat Metheny, Dizzy Gillespie + Miles Davis (Eb ,Bb , Concert and Bass parts)
- PDF of the 2 hand Piano progressions + Chord symbols of the 11 Blues Progressions showing you the exact piano chords used in the video with accompanying bar by bar analysis explanation notes for full understanding of the harmony.
- PDF of the Roman numeral Grid analysis of the 11 progressions so you can understand deeply and transpose to any key easily (comes with notes to help you memorise the key harmonic changes)
- Mp3 Playalong of the 11 progressions with the Piano on its own and with the Saxophone solos + Piano to be used for playalong practice and eartraining.
- 2 x Mp3 playalong of the 33 Blues progressions 1)Piano 2) piano and Sax solo
- Accompanying Pdf explanation of the 33 Blues solos with info about the quotes and solo