An Example of Head for Blues in C Major

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We has now gone over the chord changes in the Blue and the notes that are available to use when you are playing over Blues. Let's look at a common head in the key of C entitled Cool Blues by Charlie Parker and we are going to see how the head, the notes, fit in to the chord changes. Let's look at the sheet. We have these are the notes that make up the head. We can remember that they all fit into notes we have used. We have G, A, G, E natural, F, G, C, B, A, G, F, C, A, E, G, D, C, and D. These all repeat. Looking how they fit over the common changes you can see a lot of them are present. We have C, E, G, and B flat in the bass and they all go through on the top. The one different is B flat is held here in the dominant chord while there is a B natural here. This repeats when moving to the IV chord with F, A, C, and E flat. The one difference is E natural here and the E flat which stands out and then it continues. This is the head for Cool Blues and it repeats three times. I will now play this head. In jazz improvisation is very common. So even though a head is written out the same every time it is often common that people mix it up just a little bit to add some creativity and fun.

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