Category Archives: Genres of music

What type of music do you want to play? Want to find out more about a certain genre? Look no further.

Radio 2 Jazz Show…

Hi all, For those interested in Jazz listen to Jamie Cullum onĀ  Radio 2 every Tuesday evening at 7-8Pm…great show and fantastic music. Has current info on festivals and gigs across the country – like the first blues festival in … Continue reading

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Blues Scales Form

I’ve just posted the list of Blues scales on here – however many of you will be intrigued as to how you work these out – the theory and structure of them. The blues scale is a 6 note series … Continue reading

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Here are all the blues scales – click twice to see large version). Enjoy Neil.

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Book Plug – The Ultimate Jazz FakeBook by Hal Leonard

Available in Bb and Eb. Can get at Amazon.co.uk The best collection I’ve found in a fakebook – if you fancy all of those tunes you now and want to learn this is the book. I recently had a jazz … Continue reading

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Blues Music – Introduction/History

Blues music originated from Africa with slavery and was often depressing sad music (obviously!). Now this genre of music has developed to sound joyful and happy but retaining the mellow mood and emotion of its past. It is a reflective … Continue reading

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Genres – What type of music to play…..??

Here you will (in time) find all the info you’ll need as an introduction into the various genres (types). I will give basic info on the genre then I will start to include tips for playing that genre and also … Continue reading

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