Joe Pass Blues Exploration (PDF)

A deep dive into Joe Pass's approach to the jazz blues in G – six ideas from his solo, all transcribed and explained with notation and TAB.

This PDF goes with my YouTube video:
This Jazz Blues Solo is Perfect And Now Everybody Is Talking About It
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3LM7YIsb6w&t=107s

What's inside:

• The complete G blues chord chart with sophisticated substitutions
• A transcribed line using the HT GT scale over a 2-5-1
• Trill exercise targeting the root of each chord through the whole blues
• Chord solo – how Joe Pass harmonizes the G minor pentatonic
• Cool chord substitution in bar 8 (Bm7b5 – E7)
• Joe Pass triads recycled – chromatic approach to triads across the fretboard
• Scale suggestions for each harmonic situation