Bebop Your Blues - Jazzy I to IV Transition Lick
🕑 Added 2020-06-07 17:56:25 +0000 UTCHello friends,
welcome back to Swiftlessons for another lick of the week tutorial! In today's session we'll be examining a jazzy I to IV transition lick in the key of B major. Studying this useful phrase will reveal essential jazz lead techniques including:
• The minor second (upper neighbor) root note substitution.
• Chromatic walkups to chord tones.
• Chord arpeggiation.
• Rest stroke picking technique.
Tablature:
In this example, we see how our lick of the week can be applied to a standard jazz-blues chord progression. In this case, it's being used as a transition between the I chord B7 and the IV chord E9.

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Hi Rob, I'm going through a Blues (specifically BB King) phase (at age of 52!!)...can you point me to relevant lessons you've got on this please. Thanx Steve 😃
oh yeah, there are goodies from previous lessons, now I'm really glad I took the time to understand the structure of the measures back then. Thanks!