A brief snippet of Chord Tone Soloing over "The Days of Wine and Roses". One of the first topics that my students and I work on in my Berklee improv class. It's a basic but important and fundamental technique to have down. Some of the things we focus on include connecting the chords, use of motives, phrasing, feel and sound. All crucial musical elements needed to make it work. All of this is addressed in Volume 1 of my improv series The Complete Guide to Improvisation.

“ALFIE” – composed in 1966 (for the movie of the same title) with lyrics by Hal David and music by Burt Bacharach. I’ve always been a fan of Burt Bacharach’s composing and of this song which has a beautiful and memorable melody, poignant lyrics, unusual and interesting harmony and an odd bar form. There are many fantastic versions of this song recorded by vocalists. From pianists, one of my favorite version is from Bill Evans. Bill’s lush voicings, sense of harmony and touch is impeccable. Brad Mehldau’s version with his trio is also excellent.

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Chinese translation is for Chinese students
還沒有看學會如何演奏intro，要接到曲子第一個和弦是二級。
TOTM - Intros - Starting on the 2 Chord” 先去看那支影片。

這支影片講到如何接到六級和弦，這個六級是將會接到曲子第一個和弦是二級和弦的情況。

Tony說花一些時間自己聽出來，在過程中你會學到很多，所以這一集我就不翻譯出來啦哈哈！如果你有任何問題，請寫信給我，我們可以一起討論，或是你聽不出來他在打什麼，都可以寫信過來問我！！！chloechienz@gmail.com

Chinese translation is for Chinese students
Intro idea
一般人開頭常常會用到的intro是
Gminor7- C7b9- Bbminor7- Eb7- Gminor7- C7b9- Fmajor7- D7b9- Gminor7- C7b9
但是我們今天要說的是Red Garland在Bye bye Blackbird裡面用到的intro。
Csus- Ebsus- Gminor7- C7b9- Fmajor7- D7b9- Gminor7- C7b9

在鐵琴上有時比較不好打，因為音域的問題，但是你可以去試著找找聲音，Sus和弦很適合在鐵琴上演奏。所以這是一個很好的intro idea。

Check this out. I have some of his books left over from a website we were doing. If you're interested let me know. This is very interesting stuff I think. I mess around with a metronome doing this.

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chinese translation is for Chinese students

如果一首曲子從2級開始（第一個和弦為二級）。
比如If I were a bell，是F大調。
你可以用這樣的和絃進行作為intro:
Gminor7-C7b9-Aminor7-D7b9-Gminor7-C7b9-Fmajor7-D7b9-G7
(ii-v-iii-vi-ii-v-i-vi-ii)