Your Blues Is Homework. Wes Montgomery's Was a Song
How to make a jazz blues sound like a song, not homework — from Wes Montgomery's own blues, Cariba (Full House, 1962). Hear how that sings? That's a blues — Wes Montgomery's own: Cariba, from Full House (1962). Now be honest about yours. You've put in the hours, you know your moves — and it still comes out sounding like practice. Same color, every chorus. Here's what nobody tells you: the solo you just heard isn't built from moves at all. It's built on something you already own — the melody, and the chord voicings underneath it. One voicing from the head, then the exact line Wes pulls out of it: same shape, same spot on the neck. Tonight, on any blues you play, you ask a different question — not "what do I play over this?" but "what's already under the melody?" New to these voicings? Start from zero with the free 2-hour course and 28-page PDF (Building Blocks) — shell voicings to upper structures to drop 2: https://www.voicelidjazzguitar.com/bu... ▶️ WES' BLUES INSIGHT: CARIBA — THE FULL CHORUS, SHAPE BY SHAPE Does melody-and-voicings really work on the blues? Cariba is the proof. I trace the full chorus — every line back to the voicing it came from, shape by shape. $19, live now. Take it into the weekend — by Sunday night you'll have played a chorus of Wes's own blues from the inside: https://www.voicelidjazzguitar.com/ja... ▶️ PLAYLIST — Blues Is Not Pentatonic: • Blues Is Not Pentatonic ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Wes Montgomery's Own Blues — Cariba Solo 0:59 Berklee Apprenticeship With Richie Hart 1:55 The Solo Lives in the Melody Voicings 3:03 Cariba Melody — Bb Jazz Blues Chord Shapes 3:19 Upper Structure Dm7b5 and Drop 2 F Minor 3:36 Free Building Blocks PDF — Shell to Drop 2 4:51 I and IV Chord Voicings in Bb Blues 5:51 Jazz Blues Form — I, IV, and 1-6-2-5 6:36 Wes Montgomery's First Chorus — Dm7b5 Sound 7:30 Voice Leading — Third of Bb7 to Bb Minor 9:41 Blues Voice Leading — One Note Per Chord Change 10:49 Build Your Blues Phrase From Wes's Shape 12:33 Connect the Motif to the IV Chord 13:11 Wes' Blues Insight: Cariba — Full Chorus Traced 13:56 Wes Montgomery Blues Melody Phrasing Recap #WesMontgomery #JazzGuitar #BluesGuitar #JazzBlues
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