There is no such thing as a great musician without GREAT time.
I talk a bit about studying chords and voicings. We all have to do it, how are you going to do it?
So here is the second of three chord melodies.
I have the pdf and I have the MalletKat version. You can hear basically what's happening with the sheet music.
I think you can get a lot out of this. You have to know the chords and inversions really well. I think when I just play the lines it makes sense and you here the harmony. That's the goal right. I will post my own version of stella asap.
A series on playing and soloing in a chordal way.
Here is a lesson with an etude. I use the tune Green Dolphin Street and I play a chordal solo. There's very little that monophonic here. I tried to hit always with 2,3 or 4 mallets.
I played a few choruses of Green Dolphin Street and transcibed it.
I also talk about little bit about this series. I will continue it by doing a video for each of the technical ways I am doing this.
Check out the transcription below.
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!
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.
