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Here’s the Days of Wine and Roses chord melody.
I’ll give my new solo cd to the first 2 people who do the following.
1. Play my chord melody
2. Take a solo
3. Play my chord melody or your melody for the head out
The deadline is February first 2019
You have to have good time, keep the time. I don’t care how simple the solo is! Just play it well
I will get video of Audio and play through and talk about some of these.
PDF is attached.
As a fun incentive, you guys have one week (from the date of this post) to post your versions of this chord melody. I will pick a winner, probably with an online random generator.
The winner wins one pair of my new sticks. They will be out within the next week or so.
YOU HAVE TO WRITE THE CHORDS IN. Study this a bit, make sure you know what the alterations or of what I've written here.
Look to see when I have a root or when I don't.
Post any questions.
Here's what you do with this.
write in the chord names with the alterations.
memorize the voicings.
play them, add rhythm.
start changing the inversions of some of the voicings.
make a solo based off of the chord tones of the voicings on the sheet.
what notes would you stick in between as passing notes?
Missed a few notes, but focusing on dynamics and expression for this run. Critiques highly encouraged and very welcome.
Brooke,
Get the voicings here together and then add your own rhythms. Get it?
Also analyze the voices and write in the uppertials and the original chords.
cool?
I am working on an arrangement to Genesis' tune "Follow You Follow Me".
Here is my best take of the night's practice; messed up the solo section :-(, but I like the rest of it. In the intro and chorus, listen for the repeated notes in the accompaniment. I play the melody with mallet 4, then repeated notes with mallet 2 then 3. I interleave a bass note with mallet 1. I attached a separate demo. I am also trying to keep the accompaniment lower volume than melody.
Suggestions appreciated.
Enjoy,
Barry
[Edit 7/1/2018 - Added PDF and Sibelius-Generated MP3]