Semester 1 · Curriculum
Anchor Songs
AMF Semester 1 is built around three anchor songs — one per genre strand. Rather than abstracting technique into exercises, AMF uses complete songs as the primary unit of learning. Every system you encounter (PDC, Blues Root, TPS, SHAPE) is introduced through one of these three tunes, so the music always comes before the theory.
E major · 120 BPM — shuffle
Sweet Home Chicago
Robert Johnson
Trains the standard I7–IV7–V7 12-bar blues form in E and develops the Chicago shuffle feel that underlies most blues and blues-rock vocabulary.
Bb major · 120 BPM — swing
Blue Monk
Thelonious Monk
Introduces jazz-blues harmony (Edim7 substitution, ii–V–I turnarounds) and Monk's angular melodic language built from half-step motifs.
B minor · 60 BPM — slow blues
The Thrill Is Gone
B.B. King
Develops minor-blues tonality, slow-blues phrasing, and B.B. King's signature string-bend vocabulary within a single-position pentatonic framework.
Lead Sheets
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Sweet Home Chicago
Robert Johnson
AMF Training Focus
Trains the standard I7–IV7–V7 12-bar blues form in E and develops the Chicago shuffle feel that underlies most blues and blues-rock vocabulary.