Starter Activity

Discuss the following questions:

What do you know about the Blues
Scale?
Can you play the Blues Scale?
How do we use the Blues Scale to create
improvisation?
How does improvisation fit into the 12
bar Blues structure?

Lesson Objectives:
Today you will develop your....
Skills by performing their piece to the
class
Knowledge of how to improve their work
by evaluating their own and others work
Understanding of the style through
identifying and evaluating the
characteristics of blues in their own and
others work

Success Criteria
Turn to the back of your booklet and
find the success criteria for your
assessment of the Jackass Blues.

Here is a reminder of what you have

been doing......

12 Bar Blues Structure

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