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Hi folks,
Someone recently brought up the topic of playing in 5 and 7.
Here is a very basic lesson on playing the melody to the TOTM, Alone Together in 7.

Put the chords in and memorize :-)

Just some simple lines and rhythms. I think you should memorize it and play it with a metronome. If you use it for sight reading, that's ok, but I think of this more for improvising. Nothing fancy, but you can hear the tune.

PS - you have to put the chords in. it's important you do that.

I think the new TOTM is a great selection. Alone Together is a very hip tune to play on. Thought I would post this from a past concert to perhaps generate some ideas and approaches to work on. This clip includes a few things like playing lines using four mallets, lines in octaves using four mallets, deadstrokes, right hand octaves with left hand four to the bar comping. As far as notes go, I'm using at times some pentatonics, motivic development, various chord scales, reharmonization. Sometimes if there's a II-7 V7, I'll just think V7. There is some over the bar line phrasing in the solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GK-AA2zcC8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpG6UGXqAK4

Here's something I've been working on, see if you find it useful.
-Tyler

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