Boogie Woogie - Guitar Academy

Boogie Woogie

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Trad. American

Swing rhythm: The sign iq = qK e  is very common in blues/jazz music and means that pairs of quavers are played in a long-short triplet pattern. The first note of each quaver pair lasts  about twice as long as the  second to give a swinging ‘hump-ty dump-ty’ rhythmic feel. The small grey notes shown below are optional; include them as a musical/technical variation.

Boogie Woogie

  

iq = qK e

                              i



                             

5

9





m





3

1

                      Woogie           Boogie   1





2

3

2

  

Improvisation i

     29  The 12-Bar  Blues      III                       3fr         4

3

1

3

4

1

4

1

The tune Boogie Woogie is, like most blues music, based on a structure of 12 bars. There are many different variations of the famous 12-bar chord sequence, but the most common and basic one is shown here. 5 6 3 Improvise m 6 3 over this sequence using the G blues scale, shown below. 3 5 6

        5                      C7  G7  4 





3

1

4                        2

3

4

5

6

       D7 C7 G7 D7    7  G7 8 9 10 11 12     2                  2 3                      9



1

The G Blues Scale

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The grid below shows the scale in two octaves (Lower octave notes are grey).

3fr

1 2 3 4 5 6



G D Bb F C G

C#

3

4

Bb F C#

C G D

Bb

5

6

    III

1

3

b

Higher extension note



5

3

3

 5

4

 6

1

 3

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 6

1

B (6    4

3

b

6

th fret)