All Blues, Part 1: Form and Chords

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Learn to play swing and jazz melodies and classic solos from jazz legends like Lester Young, Miles Davis, and Django Reinhardt, as well as swing mandolinists like Tiny Moore and Jethro Burns. For each song, you’ll learn the melody and a solo, along with tips on technique, phrasing, and improvisation.

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All Blues

All Blues, Part 1: Form and Chords

All Blues, Part 2: Melody and Altered Scale

All Blues, Part 3: Cannonball Adderley Solo

All Blues, Part 4: Cannonball Adderley Solo Play-Along Track

All Blues, Part 5: Miles’s ♯9 Lines

All Blues, Part 6: Horn Parts

All Blues, Part 7: Rhythm Play-Along Track

All Blues, Part 1: Form and Chords

“All Blues” is one of the most played tunes from Miles Davis’s classic album Kind of Blue, which features a raft of jazz legends: John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb. “All Blues” is a 24-bar blues in 3/4 in the key of G with a D7♯9 and an Eb7♯9 where you would usually find a V7 chord. In this video, Joe shows you the form and chords for “All Blues.”

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