Our framework throughout has been a 12-bar blues shuffle in E, with focus on navigating the change from the I (one) chord, E7, to the IV (four), A7, and back.

“Blues for the Duke” is two pages long and is inspired by Duke Ellington, a renaissance man of jazz. This piece is composed in traditional twelve-bar blues form, which is based on three chords, the I, ...

Foley returns with four ways you can freshen up those blues licks and assert your personality upon the material ...