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How to Pitch Bend Using Dampening: Monk "bent" notes, blues inflection, and chordal pitch bending

Hey everyone,

I think this is pretty cool. "Pitch bending" is something I've been messing around with on the vibes, especially in a blues context, but also in ballads and really any setting you want. Let me know what you think!

Comping Lab Lesson #3: Sliding (Making Your Block Chords Swing pt. 3)

Hey everyone,

Here's the third and final part of my series on comping over a medium swing F blues, and how to give it that rhythmic drive a full rhythm section has. This is an interesting lesson, because I, myself, am still figuring it out! We're talking about sliding -- like a glissando, and how to use it the way guitarists and pianists do.

Let me know if you guys have thoughts on this! I obviously don't think it's applicable in all situations, but I think it certainly has some use in swing and rhythm music.

A Blues Kit for Christian (and everyone else

plenty to do here.

  • Put the chords in Ireal
  • Transcribe my solo
  • Make sure you can play and comp rootless voicings through out this for 4 choruses.
  • Play my solo
  • put my solo into Bb
  • play my solo followed by your solo. Try and make it similer in nature
  • do it in Bb and other keys.

If you click right below here on Bags Groove it should ask you to open up Ireal pro and should import this.