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What Is This Etude Called Love

This is of course based on What Is This Thing Called Love. Although back in my very immature days we put a comma after called. 

It's 3 choruses of the tune. First chorus is mostly comping. The second I solo and mostly play the chords separate from the melody and third is just lines. Notice that by the time you get to the 3rd chorus you really don't need chords. That's if you play it well, so learn it well! 

 

Like Someone In Love Etude

Like Someone In Love is a great tune to study. Harmonically it does so many things.

For example the first two bars is a 1 to a 6, however, it sticks a dom 3 before the 6 and it sounds cool. I'll do a video on this and talk about cll the cool things. 

I played it on the MalletKat so listen to the audio for pedaling. It's pretty straight forward with pedaling. 

I usually put a bass in, but I left it out here. Notice that once you play the head you can still here the changes even if you're just playing a line and even if you don't outline the complete chord. 

Maiden Voyage Etude - No such thing as a minor suspension :-)

Here is an etude I did for a student based on Maiden Voyage. I always laugh when I call something like this an etude, but I guess it sort of is. 

I just get on the Malletkat with some ideas I want to pass along to the student and I just play. Then I quantize for notation purposes and then I dump it into Musescore or Sibelius do a final clean up and print a pdf!

My student was playing this tune and was playing minor thirds over the suspended chord. A suspended 7th chord goes with a mixolydian scale.