Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school & college steel bands)

The Blue Cheese Blues is a mid tempo 12 Bar Blues that is perfect for teaching about the Blues, 12 bar blues, improvisation, tag endings, and call & response. The opening 12 bars is the foundation of the whole piece but it also gives multiple phrases to solo over (w/ a major blues scale for a jumping off point), and a call and response phrase in the middle to shake things up a bit and challenge the readers a bit more. This piece should be disassembled and reassembled as needed for your band or teaching needs.