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Savoy Blues, Part 1: Rhythm Part

This lesson is part of the course Roots of Jazz Guitar with Matt Munisteri.
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Learn to play the 1920s and ’30s chord melody and rhythm guitar styles of Eddie Lang, Nick Lucas, Freddie Green, Carl Kress, and other early jazz greats. With chord melody solos to popular swing melodies, advanced rhythm guitar techniques, and acoustic jazz picking techniques.

 
 
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Savoy Blues  
 
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Savoy Blues, Part 1: Rhythm Part
Savoy Blues, Part 1: Rhythm Part
 
In 1927, Louis Armstrong featured guitarist Lonnie Johnson on his Hot Five recording of “Savoy Blues.” The recording includes a section where the rest of the band drops out, leaving Johnson and Johnny St. Cyr to play a 12-bar blues guitar duet. In this lesson, you’ll learn St. Cyr’s rhythm part and Johnson’s solo. St. Cyr played six-string banjo with many of the most important New Orleans jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton, while Johnson recorded prolifically in many styles, including, blues, jazz, and R&B. In the 1920s he had feature solos on recordings by Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong, and others. At the end of the 1920s, Johnson made a number of duet recordings with Eddie Lang. In this video, Matt shows you St. Cyr’s rhythm part.

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