Lesson Plan
Class: SONGS FOR STARTERS
Date: April-12-2021
Lesson Name: Swing Groove
Focus: Creating the groove for Jazz blues

Walking Bass

Blues Groove in C


Were we ever really strangers
because the second I looked at you, you were so much more.
Were we ever really strangers
because you made my heart fall to the floor.
Were we ever really strangers because now you are gone and all of me remembers all of you.
We were never really strangers
before but now, now we are more strangers now then the first time I met you,
but now you are a stranger
that I could see and all of it would come flooding back to me.
Groove
In music, groove is the sense of an effect ("feel") of changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm or sense of "swing". In jazz, it can be felt as a quality of persistently repeated rhythmic units, created by the interaction of the music played by a band's rhythm section (e.g. drums, electric bass or double bass, guitar, and keyboards). Groove is a significant feature of popular music, and can be found in many genres, including salsa, rock, soul, funk, and fusion.