How to Sing The Blues

Review: 80 of the all-time best blues tunes in one jam-packed collection!

Songlist: Ain't Nobody's Business (If I Do), As The Years Go Passing By, Baby Please Don't Go, Before You Accuse Me (Take A Look At Yourself), Big Boss Man, Blues Before Sunrise, The Blues Is Alright, Blues With A Feeling, Born Under A Bad Sign, Bourgeois Blues, Bright Lights, Big City, Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?), Catfish Blues, Cheaper To Keep Her, Come On In My Kitchen, Crazy Blues, Crosscut Saw, Dimples, Early In The Mornin', Easy Baby, Everyday I Have The Blues, Flip, Flop, And Fly, Forty-Four, Further On Up The Road, Gangster Of Love, Going Down Slow, Good Morning Little School Girl, Got My Mojo Workin, Have You Ever Loved A Woman, Hi-Heel Sneakers, How Long, How Long Blues, I Ain't Got You, I Just Want To Make Love To You, I Know What You're Puttin' Down, I'd Rather Go Blind, I'm A Man, I'm Ready, If You Love Me Like You Say, It Hurts Me Too, Juke, Kansas, Key To The Highway, Kidney Stew Blues, Kozmic Blues, The Lemon Song, Let The Good Times Roll, Let's Have A Natural Ball, Little Red Rooster, Love Struck Baby, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Matchbox, Memphis Blues, The Midnight Special, Milk Cow Blues, My Babe, Night Time Is The Right Time, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out, Organ Grinder Blues, Parchman Farm Blues, Please Send Me Someone To Love, Reconsider Baby, The Right Time, Saturday Night Fish Fry, See See Rider, Sitting On Top Of The World, Smokestack Lightning, Smoking Gun, Statesboro Blues, Sugar Mama, Ten Long Years, The Things That I Used To Do, Third Degree, Three Hours Past Midnight, The Thrill Is Gone, Trouble In Mind, Tupelo (Tupelo Blues), Turn On Your Love Light, Wang Dang Doodle, You Shook Me, You've Got To Love Her With A Feeling

Style: Blues

Review: Features soulful arrangements of 57 of America's greatest blues tunes.

Songlist: After Your Gone, Ain't No Sunshine, Baby, Get Lost, Baby, Won't You Please Come Home, Bad Influence, Beale Street Blues, Birth Of Blues, Call It Stormy Monday, Crazy Blues, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans, Down Hearted Blues, Evil (Is Going On), Farewell Blues, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Got My Mojo Working , I Ain't Got Nobody, I cried For You, I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good, I'm A Fool To Want You, I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man, I've Never Love A Man The Way I Love You, It's Just A Matter Of Time, I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's gone, Jazz Me Blues, Key To The Highway, Lovesick Blues, Memphis Blues, Mercy Mercy Mercy, Mercy On Me, Midnight Special, Misty Blue, My Babe, Night Life, Nobody, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out, Rollin' And Tumblin', St. James Infirmary, St. Louis Blues, See See rider, Seventh Son, Stormy Weather, Sugar Blues, Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do, Teacher's Blues, There'll Be Some Changes Made, Think, Trouble No More, Wabash Blues, Wang - Wang Blues, Work Song, Worried Man, Yellow Dog Blues

Style: Blues

Review: Develop your blues style and phrasing using the blues scale, major pentatonic scale, call & response, expand your blues style and phrasing and write and sing your own blues. Sing along with BB King, Albert Collins, Robben Ford and many more! Instructors Carol Rogers and Masta Edwards do an excellent job in hosting these informative programs and will be of great assisiatnce to aspiring blues singers. This DVD contains Vocal Basics One and Two, with Blues Vocals One and Two.Total running time of 135 min.

Songlist: Correct Breathing and Mouth Position, Vowel Exercises: The Key to Developing Vocal Control, How To Find Your Vocal Range, How To Use Your Technique in Different Styles, Exercises for Extending Your Vocal Range, "Chest Voice" and "Head Voice", Ways To Interpret a Melody and Make the Lyrics Come Alive, Vocal Maintainance: Taking Care of Your Voice, The Blues Scale: The Traditional Sound of the Blues, The Major Pentatonic Scale: The Sweeter Side of the Blues, Call-And-Response: The Basic Method of Blues Phrasing, Expand Your Blues Style and Phrasing, Write and Swing Your Own Blues, Sing Along With B.B. King, Albert Collins, and Robben Ford

Style: Blues

Review: Here'ss a vocal workshop that will help bring your blues songs to life! W. C. Handy Award-winner Gaye Adegbalola has identified 17 key points to help a singer put his or her song across. As she puts it: 'My mission is give you some ideas to help you relay a story... lay your soul bare... share an experience... say aloud what others feel deep inside.' In an engaging and powerful session, Gaye shares the singing techniques that she has gleaned from a lifetime of performing. She provides important tips on how to communicate with an audience, and performs more than a dozen traditional and original songs. Her instruction in breathing, vibrato, the 'growl', the octave slur, imaging, shading, squeezing notes and other tricks of the trade' will add color and flavor to all your blues renditions. For all levels. 80 minutes.

Songlist: Intro, Personalize Your Song, Phrasing, Energy, Breathing, "Meet Me With Your Black Drawers on", "Hear Me Talkin' To Ya", "Down Home Blues", The Growl, Repertoire, Squeezing Notes, "Life Goes On", "Dirty Sheet Blues", Dialoging, "Blues in the House", Octave Slur, "Sweet Black Angel", Imaging, Breathiness, Shading, Tempo, Correct Key, "XCold Pizza and Warm Beer"

Style: Blues

Review: This awesome follow-up to the popular book Scat!, Blues Scatitudes is packed full of vocal improvisation techniques on the Blues. Focuses on blues solos in variety of contemporary grooves, while also covering syllable articulation, accents and ties, Blues etudes, and more.

Songlist: Musical Terms, Scat Syllables, Using Accents, Major and Pentatonic Scales, The Blues Scale, Eight Blues Scatitudes

Style: Blues