Benefit of Jim's Lessons
If anybody ever feels in a rut with their playing, I strongly recommend Jim's lessons. He will get you out of playing the same old blues scales and teach you how to handle changes. His approach of using triads as a basis to solo was earth shattering for me. Here's a little clip I did after taking his lessons for the past 7 months. I still have a ways to go, but I could not have imagined being able to play over anything other than a blues previously.
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Maybe someone else can pipe in, but as far as particular lessons go - "Playing the Blues and Nailing the Change" and "Bb Jazz Blues Concepts" both focus on applying triads to lead lines that indicate the change.
All the best- Jim
Thank you for the kind words!
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It seems like in most of the lessons that I have using triads gets mentioned in some level of detail. I think this reflects how important the concept is. "Panhandle Rag" is a really good one because it teaches you how to imply chord changes over simple progressions.
I've often thought of starting of a thread here about playing inspired by Jim's lessons. Just never did it. I myself have only bought two lessons (F blues and Country in G), learned most of both of them, and remember the first solo of each. Actually bought the F blues as I was to play a jazzy blues solo in F live one time (I was playing just rhythm for the rest of the set), hoping that this Jim lesson would give it to me in a week... did not happen, could not make it fit in any parts of it... so I copied a Vignola lesson solo for it. It actually worked pretty well, but the improvisation in it was only due messing it up (here after around 30s: https://app.box.com/s/2c142778f891da461be0 ). Anyway, the G country taught me a few licks I still use here and there, I do't remember if I have any of those recorded...