I like your groove Jay. It’s a 12 bar for sure. You are on the right track. Some solo improv makes it swing

Thanks Scott! You play it better than I can right now....lol

As I suspected, there may be some benefits to some right hand chord substitutions as Daniel has recommended or others....as written, some seem to sound a little "off" (but that also makes them interesting, ammirite?) And I'm not thrilled with the Gmaj7 in the right hand in bar 6......it's "correct", but just sounds boring......

As far as the "out there" solo, I dig it. Of course, I love the solo guitar figures and runs in "Larks Tongues in Aspic Part One" and I dig Cecil Taylor and Sonny Sharrock so that gives you an idea of what I think "sounds good"....lol

Bass line in the sweet spot, conventional, then comes the melody - had to laugh hard. You tore apart "The Blues", atonal all over the place but so well executed. Those RH chops need to be brought under control.

Control is death, you say? Whatever you have to do, don't forget that RH "Eruption". It foretells your future.

Well it isn't so much fun following Scott and "The Inventor", but I did contract to publish. So here is a slight adjustment on the number, rough as it may be.



Adjustments are the modal shift to eliminate F#, no repeated notes in the bass, and inversions on the last 2 chords.

Enjoy my reading music and playing at the same time.

Nice work, man! This was tough, I like what you did with it. Cool stuff.

The possibilities are endless. In a 12 bar blues there are 48 beats. With substitutions you can actually play 48 different chords with walking bass and melodic development. The blues is very flexible, sometimes unrecognizable as such. Creative fun

Steve A