intermediate

Friedman 9

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! 

David Friedman Dampening Etude 8

This is to accompany the etude I posted. But I'll also include the etude here as well. 

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. 

Here's what you do. Don't look at the files that say 'dont-look' download the other ones first. Take the sheet music and add your voicings to stella. Learn and and play and hopefully post it here. 

After that and ONLY after that, download the don't look files and see what voicings I used. Check out what's similar and what's different. Let me know how you do and what you think. 

Bebop heads can really help with your technique. Play them very very slow and speed them up.

Me talking about this tune and how I study it and play it! 

BTW - I lost 1,000 dollars. This is no Tune of the month for this tune! 

Ok, there's a lot here. Check it out. Some choruses are easier than others. So grab what works for you. 

I put in the chords for the first chorus. You do the same for the rest. Here are things you should do. 

In the tracks below are: 

I always try and play a version of the tune I'm doing a lesson on. My 2024 version of Israel is here.

Here's a lesson on Israel. I know I've put up lessons in the past. Well I didn't think of until I started doing the lessons. 

Maybe I cover some of the same stuff. However....

In this version I'm attaching a pdf of my arrangement of the head as well as some simple etudes based on the first few bars of the tune!