What is common practice for solo-ing over minor blues?

[guitarjazz]

 

[guitarjazz]

Is mM7 ever used for anything other than the spy stuff ?

 

[fenderlead]

I honestly think that in most cases, learning AC/DC helps you play minor blues/blues better than learning Louis Armstrong.

I honestly cannot off the top of my head think of a jazz song that's just straight 1-4-5 minor without being modal, but ... I'm not thinking that hard either.

I was watching an Angus interview (a Dutch interview I think) and he said he took some licks off of Louis Armstrong.

Angus grew up with Louis and a lot of other stuff due to his family.

The interview is this one at 21:58

 

[fenderlead]

Is mM7 ever used for anything other than the spy stuff ?

 

[guitarjazz]

 

[Washburnmemphis]

I honestly think that in most cases, learning AC/DC helps you play minor blues/blues better than learning Louis Armstrong.

I honestly cannot off the top of my head think of a jazz song that's just straight 1-4-5 minor without being modal, but ... I'm not thinking that hard either.

 

[guitarjazz]

I gotta write a sheet on that. The thing between the bass and guitar on the head is fantastic!

 

[JonR]

You had to go and spoil it all didn't you...

 

[JonR]

I honestly think that in most cases, learning AC/DC helps you play minor blues/blues better than learning Louis Armstrong.

Maybe, arguably (extremely) - but there are other choices!

 

[JonR]

Here's another minor blues, with a nice chromatic turnaround (in place of either a major or minor V).

 

[WesDocJimi]

 

[ChuckDeMeyer]

Josh Smith is a Blues guy from the get-go. As to the authenticity of his playing, I couldn’t say.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Could be a sub, but it is Highly unlikely, and I certainly don't hear, Otis Rush or his band using that, the 5 in major. There is no major sound to it, to my ear. Playing a M7 note of the home key over that would sound wrong in a lot of situations.

It is pretty common, and I do it a lot, to play the bVI as a 9, keeping that 9 as a common tone, drop down to a V#9.
However, that is different than playing the V as a minor.

They are both valid.

Let me try my view this way… the 5 in minor as a minor chord still fills a dominant function.
Whether I use that or any of the other available ways I could use any of the subdominants to stand in for the dominant function or the actual dominant chord is mostly a matter of choice.

As for the 3 in the 5 or the keys 7 or b7 I most always hear 7#9 as more of a minor than dominant sound so the b3 or #9 if you prefer for me are the go to.

As for the bVI that to me is without a doubt a sub for a II7b9+

 

[guitarjazz]

You had to go and spoil it all didn't you...

The close companion of the 'Stairway To Heaven' 1,#7,b7,6 is:

All roads lead to 6!

 

[gmann]

Here is a demo of one of my songs, D minor, the V is minor. Works fine -

I really like this!

 

[amstrtatnut]

FWIW my favorite minor blues is Since Ive Been Loving You by Led Zep. Thats where Id start, and likely end but, Im a Jimmy Page fan.

Ive recently been studying Robben Fords version of Help the Poor too. Learned the solo and trying to insert into some of my solos. Getting a ton of milage from it.

 

[ripgtr]

I really like this!

Thanks!

 

[Lmill999]

Have you studied The Thrill Is Gone ? Can’t think of many more fruitful ways to spend time with a guitar.

Learning the intro to that song taught me so much about feel and dynamics. When I need a refresher on what playing with huge dynamics is, that's the song I put on.

 

[guitarjazz]

A Cmaj7 chord on the I chord of a C minor blues? Oliver Nelson did it. Find it:

 

[amstrtatnut]

A Cmaj7 chord on the I chord of a C minor blues? Oliver Nelson did it. Find it:

My go to sound is a Maj7 a minor third up from the i. So EbMaj7 over Cm.