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F Blues: Outlining the Chord Changes w/Bass Line

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  • Type: Video Tutorial
  • Length: 27:34
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  • Size: 109 MB
  • Posted: 04/02/2012

Quamon goes over the blues with a metronome and demonstrates how to walk the bass line over a 12 bar blues in F. Going through the changes he talks about how melody, harmony, rhythm, and dynamics are connected to each other. He also explains how to build melody from the quarter notes to eighth notes to triplets and evan sixteenth notes. This helps the instrumentalist understand how to connect their lines when they improvise once they understand the bass line movement through the changes increasing in rhythmic choices, melodic and harmonic ideas.

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Quamon Fowler
Quamon Fowler
9 lessons
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03/19/2012

Quamon Fowler holds a Master's Degree in Music Performance from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX and finished his undergraduate's degree from Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA where he studied under the legendary jazz clarinetist and educator, Alvin Batiste. Quamon has been recognized for awards such as winning 3rd place in the 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophonist Competition, 1st place in the 2006 NASA Jazz Saxophone Competion, the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer's Award and more.

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