Riff of the Week #11: Smooth Minor Seventh Blues

1,649 views · Published 20 September 2015 · 7:40 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: Mark Zabel · 2015 · Music

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A cool, smooth minor blues that you might expect to hear in, say a Marvin Gaye song. It has some unusual voicings of the chords - particularly the Em7 and B7 chords. 

We'll do some improvising later on this riff, where we'll use some harmonic minor ideas - that will be a lot of fun!!

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