Blue Bossa is a popular bossa nova standard written by Kenny Dorham and made famous by Joe Henderson on his album Page One (1963). It was written after Dorham visited the Rio de Janeiro Jazz Festival in 1961.
Blue Bossa is a good song for beginners to improvise over chord changes because it is usually played at a medium tempo and has an easy-to-follow harmony (including a modulation). Blue Bossa is often played at jams, so it’s a good idea to add it to your repertoire.
Before we go on to the solo, let’s first have a look at the harmonic structure and the guitar scales you can use over Blue Bossa.
Little Light Blue Bossa (percussion Ensemble
As an optional variation, you can make bar 2 into a C dominant 7th chord, by playing the F harmonic minor scale.
The scale of choice to play over C7 is the F harmonic minor scale, also known as the C Phrygian dominant scale or the C Mixolydian b9 b13 scale.
In this version of Blue Bossa, I arranged the melody the way you would play it in a jazz trio by adding chords to the melody.
Blue Bossa With Lyrics Sheet Music For Piano (solo)
Arpeggios are an important tool for jazz musicians because they enable you to mirror the harmony of a tune in your solo, something that’s harder to achieve with scales.
The following arpeggio study over Blue Bossa will help you on your way. I play the arpeggios continuously up and down the strings and stay in one position.
These studies are not meant to sound good, but they are a good way to master arpeggios so you can use them in a more creative and musical way in your solos.
Blue Bossa (kenny Dorham)
Playing substitutions gives you a richer sound compared to playing the vanilla arpeggios, something that is almost always desirable. Make yourself accustomed to playing chord substitutions instead of the plain chords.
Playing substitutions gives you a richer sound compared to playing the vanilla arpeggios, something that is almost always desirable. Make yourself accustomed to playing chord substitutions instead of the plain chords.
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