12 Bar Modern Jump Blues Guitar in B (with TAB and BACKING TRACK) – Mark Zabel

We’ll explore jump blues with a modern flavor. B is not a typical “guitar key” so I’ve provided both the backing track and tab to get you “jump started” into this. You can learn the solo note for note and then use the backing track to do your own improvising.

Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring saxophone or brass instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival. Guitarists like Duke Robillard and Brian Setzer are modern proponents of the style. Scales are used, but because of the Jump Blues migration from Swing music, “playing the changes” (using chord tones and arpeggios) is also emphasized.

Jump blues evolved from the music of big bands such as those of Lionel Hampton and Lucky Millinder. These bands of the early 1940s produced musicians such as Louis Jordan, Jack McVea, Earl Bostic, and Arnett Cobb.
Blues and jazz were part of the same musical world, with many accomplished musicians straddling both genres. Jump bands such as the Tympany Five, which came into being at the same time as the boogie-woogie revival, achieved maximum effect with an eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie style.

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Here’s the TAB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bmv6ygu65jrrbxd/12%20bar%20modern%20jump%20blues%20in%20B.pdf?dl=0

Here’s the Backing Track: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u516zwav7dkcgdg/12%20bar%20modern%20jump%20blues%20in%20B.mp3?dl=0