48 Razor-Sharp 12-Bar Blues Riffs for Swing Bands and Blues Bands: C Instruments Edition [Plastic Comb] Review

This is a beautiful little book filled with the type of excellent horn riffs played by bands like Louis Jordan, Bill Haley, swing bands, etc.

A lot of musicians overlook "riff" playing, but playing riffs as tune heads, outros, background, or even solos adds a lot of excitement and drive to blues songs.

Swing / blues riffs are easy enough for a beginner to play but also have pro application. I am enjoying playing my accordion along with the saxaphone and rhythm section.

The CD is high-quality and features a tight band and every example played note-for-note on the CD.

Valuable "How to Use" information is found in the book, including some good tips for how to apply the material to real songs.

The book is made of high-quality materials, including acid-free paper that allows writing on with pen or pencil. This is the type of paper that was used by the big publishers before they went to cheap copy paper. The cover is heavy and the spiral binding allows the book to be folded flat on the music stand, like the Homespun books made by Happy Traum.

An excellent, innovative book for anyone who is learning or playing the blues.

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Product Description:

This valuable book is for band musicians who love the exciting sound of riff-driven uptown blues and swing music.
Book and CD - Standard Notation
Technical ability: Early intermediate
Application: Hobbyist to professional
This unique collection of forty-eight 12-bar riffs provides some great ideas for spicing up the blues songs your band plays.
In music, a riff is a repeating pattern, often played against a chord or chord progression. Horn riffs played over twelve-bar blues progressions add drive, variety, identity, and excitement to a song.
Examples of riff songs include Now's the Time by Charlie Parker; In the Mood by Glenn Miller; and Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets.
Riffs can be worked into most any medium-to uptempo blues.
A twelve-bar riff is a versatile arranging tool, and can be used as a tune head, solo, backing for a solo, or backing behind a singer.
Although most riffs are fairly easy to play, and easy to apply to blues progressions, many bands neglect this important aspect of arranging and performance.
For the student, riffs provide excellent practice for sight-reading rhythms. And an emerging blues musician can actually play a 12-bar riff as a solo.
Improvising musicians might use riffs as motifs upon which to base solos. Arrangers are encouraged to develop the riffs into two-or three-part section harmony parts.
The riffs in this book are arranged in the treble clef for piano (right-hand), violin, oboe, piccolo, flute, C-trumpet, accordion (right-hand) and other concert-pitched treble clef instruments. A separate notation/tablature edition is available for guitar players.
The C edition provides riffs suitable for jazz piano, blues piano, jazz violin, blues violin, jazz oboe, blues oboe, jazz piccolo, blues piccolo, jazz flute, blues flute, jazz trumpet (C), blues trumpet (C), jazz accordion, blues accordion, etc.
It is an excellent reference for the jazz and blues song writer, composer, or arranger. Invaluable also for the school stage band or jazz band musician.
Great stuff here with lots of potential for all swing band and blues band musicians.
Companion CD includes all 48 riffs, played on tenor sax with full rhythm backing.
Coil bound for your convenience.

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