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48 Razor-Sharp 12-Bar Blues Riffs for Swing Bands and Blues Bands: Bass Instruments Edition (Red Dog Music Books Razor-Sharp Blues Series)
48 RazorSharp 12Bar Blues Riffs for Swing Bands and Blues Bands Bass Instruments Edition - Red Dog Music Books Razor-Sharp Blues Series Author:Larry McCabe This essential Red Dog Music Book is for band musicians who love the exciting sound of riff-driven uptown blues and swing music. In music, a riff is a repeating pattern, often played against a chord or chord progression. (Riffs are sometimes mistakenly called licks, and vice-versa.) Horn riffs played over twelve-bar blues rhythm progressions wil... more »l add drive, variety, identity, and excitement to a song (examples: In the Mood by Glenn Miller, Now's the Time by Charlie Parker, Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets). This unique collection of forty-eight 12-bar riffs provides some great ideas for spicing up the blues songs your band plays. Most riffs are very easy to play, and easy to incorporate into blues progressions, but many bands neglect this important aspect of arranging. A twelve-bar riff is a versatile arranging tool, and might be used as a tune head, solo, backing for a solo, or backing behind a singer. Two to four playings of a 12-bar riff per song is considered ideal by professional arrangers. CD includes all 48 riffs, played on tenor sax, with full rhythm backing. Guitar edition includes notes and tablature. Book is available in guitar, C instruments, B flat instruments, E flat instruments, and bass instruments editions. Musicians who know how to write harmony are encouraged to develop the riffs into two-or three-part section sounds. Improvising musicians can use riffs fragments as motifs upon which to base solos. Great stuff here for all swing band and blues band musicians. Excellent practice for sight-reading rhythms.« less