Bird Blues in Gb Backing Track (minus Drums), Swing, 210 bpm

Bird Blues Backing Track. Charlie Parker's chord changes on the song Blues for Alice A complex blues for practicing: Blues melodies Connecting tonalities Improvising developmentally Improvised solos Working on difficult or unfamiliar keys Double-time fragments Phrasing and timing and much more Some examples of things to try: Improvising using only chord tones or guide-tone lines Practicing the "question, question, answer" phrasing that is indicative of the blues form. Working on integrating acquired licks or language over this form Try using only chord tones over the changes Varying usable scales. Dominant 7 options: Mixolydian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7, 1) Lydian b7 (1, 2, 3, #4, 5, 6, b7) Melodic Dom. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1) Harmonic Dom. (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1) Altered (1, b2, #2, 3, b5, #5, b7) Half-whole dim. (1, b2, #2, 3, #4, 5, 6, b7) Whole Tone (1, 2, 3, #4, #5, b7) Harmonic Major Dominant (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7) Practice moving from harmonic specific phrases (chord-tone approach) to blues scale (minor pentatonic) phrases. Here are some variations of this track to try: Full band:    • Bird Blues in Gb Backing Track (Full ...   Minus Bass:    • Bird Blues in Gb Backing Track (minus...   Minus Comping:    • Bird Blues in Gb Backing Track (minus...   Minus Drums:    • Bird Blues in Gb Backing Track (minus...   For some other exercises, visit www.practiceaddict.com