Blues in Ab Backing Track (minus Comp), Swing, 130 bpm

Jazz Blues Backing Track. A mid-tempo jazz blues for practicing: - Blues melodies - Improvising solos - Working through difficult or unfamiliar keys - Double-time fragments - Phrasing and timing Some things to try: - Try improvising using only chord tones or guide-tone lines - Practice the “question, question, answer“ phrasing that is indicative of the blues form. - Work on integrating acquired licks or language over this form - Dominant 7 options: - Mixolydian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7, 1) - Lydian b7 (1, 2, 3, #4, 5, 6, b7) - Melodic Dom. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1) - Harmonic Dom. (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1) - Altered (1, b2, #2, 3, b5, #5, b7) - Half-whole dim. (1, b2, #2, 3, #4, 5, 6, b7) - Whole Tone (1, 2, 3, #4, #5, b7) - Harmonic Major Dominant (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7) - Practice moving from harmonic specific phrases (chord-tone approach) to blues scale (minor pentatonic) phrases. Here are some variations of this t
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