Lesson

Some personal little extras.

We did a zoom hang and talked about Israel. 

TOTM - Israel - Playing Over the A7#11 Chord by Behn Gillece

TOTM - Israel - Playing Over The Fmaj Chord by Behn Gillece

Part 2 of the Dm chord in Israel

When we learn I think it's best to break things down into small chunks. Learn a piece move on, put a couple pieces together. That's the way I do it. So let's take this simple beginning of the tune and work on it. 

Do you know and can you see that this is basically a 12 bar blues? 

Part 2 coming later this week!

Here are three, two five, one progressions. 

Good voice leading for the most part is lazy voice leading. That means: 

1. you usually won't move the note if it's in the next chord.
2. you will move whatever voicings have to move but to the closest note in the next chord. 

With that in mind you figure this puzzle out. I'll attach the answers, but don't look until you're tried this out! 

Here is the challenge: 

These exercises go along with Behns video which is linked here under 'Check this Out'.

Don't write it down until you can play it. 

Can you play it in another key? 

I tried to make the easy one easy. The other has two choruses, one easier than the other. 

I also tried to focus on some things like a scale or a target note.