Blues for J Lesson
Just talking about the tune and ways to play it. Come up with your version!
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Just talking about the tune and ways to play it. Come up with your version!
In this etude, the quarter note remains consistent like an actual walking bass line. The challenge in this exercise is to keep the pedal down and the dampening smooth, making sure no notes ring together. Work on getting a really nice legato sound!
Cool lesson. It turns into an etude once you get the chords down. Spend some time on this!
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I made this with a bass and percussion. I think it's 'groovy'.
It's focusing on one chord, and that's C7. Check it out and Try and play it. I have the groove at 2 tempos a slow one and a faster one.
And then.... a slow one in F in case any of you guys want to try and transpose it. To the first person, who makes a video of them playing it in C and F, I'll give to free lessons. OFF EXPIRES JULY 1 2024
You know what, to be very frank and mildly funny, the big boys and girls can play good 2 5 1 voicings.
Well rounded players can do all this stuff. You can tell how well rounded a player is by listening to them play a standard and comp. For whatever that is worth. I imagine if you are a blue grass vibe player and that's all you care about then you're not worrie about this etude. But if you want to be a decent jazz player this stuff I think is important.
Real simple, play this etude. Make it sound good. Look at the music, I put in some of the changes. you should be able to figure out the rest.
After you figure out the cords, look at each bar and add all the upper partial so you know it's being played. A lot of these voice things are rootless voicings.
I didn't use a bass track because I want you guys to hear the harmony work all on its own without a bass so you can see that these are rootless and that they work even if you're playing only Vibes or maybe Vibes and singer or Vibes in sax any of those combinations.
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Here's a second part to the other lesson titled "A Way To Practice Soloing and Comping Together".
I took a couple other examples about how to practice this. Ultimately, you just do it and try to make music. I know for some of you it won't sound great in the beginning. I always think that if you keep doing it and doing it, eventually you play something good and recognize it and learn from it. Know what I mean????
Check out the attached PDF!