Jazz Practice Exercises

Ted greene blues progressions

Here are TEN variations on 12 bar blues created by the great guitarist and educator TED GREENE in a lesson dated 10-29-1982

Ted Greene (10)

Individual songs:
Blues Basic* - Ted Greene
Blues 2 - Ted Greene
Blues 3 - Ted Greene
Blues 4 - Ted Greene
Blues 5 - Ted Greene
Blues 6 - Ted Greene
Blues 7 - Ted Greene
Blues 8 - Ted Greene
Blues 9 - Ted Greene
Blues 10 - Ted Greene

Cercle - Unknown Composer

Mayores Cromaticas Descendentes - Miguel Pons

Ejercicios (11)

Individual songs:
II V I Circle of Fifths - Miguel Pons
II V I 12 Whole Steps - Miguel Pons
Major Chromatic Down - Miguel Pons
Major Chromatic Up - Miguel Pons
Major Circle Of Fifth - Miguel Pons
Dominant 7 Circle Of Fifth - Miguel Pons
Dominant 7 Chromatic Down - Miguel Pons
Dominant 7 Chromatic Up - Miguel Pons
Minor 7 Circle Of Fifth - Miguel Pons
Minor 7 Chromatic Down - Miguel Pons
Minor 7 Chromatic Up - Miguel Pons

C6 - Unknown Composer

C7 - Unknown Composer

C^7 - Unknown Composer

For beginning to intermediate bassists: Backing tracks to Bob Magnusson's book, "The Art of Walking Bass" (1999). Includes new tracks supporting his examples, sequences and modes that are not on his excellent CD.

[REVISED: 2014-11-22:

Bob Magnusson (34)

Great job nimble switch:):y:
I can tell you put a lot of effort into this.

I just ordered the book from Amazon but I can't wait for it.
I'm going to start working these exercises asap

Thanks, Bobsax. If just one person finds these useful, then it's worthwhile. So thanks, again.

Bob's book starts out simply, but if you really do everything, it advances quickly. I met Bob once and thanked him for his book. He pointed out that he did the whole book in quarter notes only, which I think was a really good idea, looking back on it. If we get his book down and analyze the bass lines as we go along, we'll be ready to take off into different rhythms, etc., from there.