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Week 4 Lesson Plan

This lesson plan focuses on various blues playing techniques such as the snap, slap, and rake, along with creative tasks for students to practice. It also covers blues form devices like pick-up phrases, turnarounds, breaks, and tags, as well as soloing concepts including call and response and chord tone soloing. Assignments include exploring different turnarounds, analyzing audio/video examples, and playing a solo that incorporates the learned concepts.

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Week 4 Lesson Plan

This lesson plan focuses on various blues playing techniques such as the snap, slap, and rake, along with creative tasks for students to practice. It also covers blues form devices like pick-up phrases, turnarounds, breaks, and tags, as well as soloing concepts including call and response and chord tone soloing. Assignments include exploring different turnarounds, analyzing audio/video examples, and playing a solo that incorporates the learned concepts.

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LESSON PLAN

WEEK 4

VI. Other Blues Playing Techniques: (these are found on the Artistworks video by Keith Wyatt)
➢ The Snap - fingerpicking the string with a quick, pulling motion that it hits the fingerboard creating a
snapping sound. This is similar to the slap technique in electric bass guitar.
Demo to the student. Snap the A minor pentatonic scale notes. Let student try it.

➢ The Slap - strumming forcefully a set of muted strings and letting only the desired note to sound.
Demo to student. Slap the A minor pentatonic scale notes. Let student try it.

➢ Rake - dragging (or arpeggiating) the pick across muted strings towards a target note.
Demo to student. Let student try.

Creative Task 1: On a one chord vamp (ex. A7), improvise short phrases incorporating snap, slap and rake.

VII. Blues form devices:


➢ Pick-up Phrases - (sometimes called “take-offs”), these are groups of notes that lead to the downbeat.
It draws the attention from the listener and creates expectation.
Play the example in the book (Blues Guitar Soloing, p.97).
➢ Turnaround - the final 2 bars (bar 11 and bar 12) of the Blues form. It functions as a transition to another
chorus (one complete performance of the form).

Demonstrate a classic turnaround:

Turnaround

➢ Break - is a spot before the final ending where the guitarist fills in some lines. In performance, the band
leader or the singer cues the break.

➢ Tag - is a repeat of the last 4 bars of the form before the final chord is played. This is also signaled by the
band leader or the singer. Some chords of the form is changed to accommodate the repeat.

VIII. Blues Soloing concepts:


➢ Call and Response soloing - is where one phrase ("call") is sounded to be answered (“response”) by another
phrase creating a musical dialogue.
Playing Task 1: Play example on the book on p. 88.

➢ Chord Tone Soloing - targeting the root, 3rds and 7ths of the chord.
Playing Task 2: Play examples on the book on p.90 and p. 91

Assignment:
1. Check out other styles of turnaround on pp. 100-101 of the book
2. Watch and listen to the given audio/video examples of Blues breaks.
3. Analyze and play the solo on p. 98. It incorporates all the learned concepts above.
- end of lesson -
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