MICHAELBLOOMFIELD

Bb This Mike Bloomfield style track is an upbeat 12-bar blues in the key of which focuses on his blues style (the final 13th bar is just where the last note sustains through at the end and is not part of the 12 bar form). I used my Fender Telecaster ’72 Custom Reissue for the piece.

Bb Bb-Db-Eb- Ab) [Bars 1-4] These licks are in shape1 of Minor Pentatonic ( F- and although relatively straightforward, should be played with some attitude. Bb [Bars 5-6] The lick in these two bars uses the notes from the Blues scale Bb- Eb-Fb- Ab), b5 Fb) ( Db- F- where the ( and 5th (F natural) trickily repeat between the third and second strings in bar 6. The end of this lick slides via the third string Bb into shape 2 of Minor Pentatonic.

[Bars 7-8] The shape 2 lick continues here in bar 7. The lick in bar 8 is still in shape 2 b3rd Db) but has an interesting bluesy chromatic climb from the ( through the Major Eb).

3rd (D natural) to the 4th ( The following repeated 4th to Major 3rd semitone phrase is a typical but great sounding blues lick.

[Bars 9-12] Bars 9-10 see some more shape 2 vocabulary; note how the resolution to the F (third string, 10th fret) over the F7 chord in bar 9, and the later Bb Bb7 resolution to the (second string, 11th fret) over the chord on beat 1 of bar 11 strongly mark those chord changes. The final descending phrase in bar 11-12 Bb Bb Bb- uses notes from both the Minor and Major Pentatonic ( C-D-F-G), but this Bb Bb- Eb- Ab). could also be viewed as coming from Mixolydian ( C-D- F-G