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Mixo Etude

tonymiceli 30 August 2022

Here is an etude based on the mixolydian scale, or we could say based on a dominant chord. 

It starts on G7 and goes through the cycle of 4ths every two bars. 

Play the etude. 

Find a lick over one of the chords and memorize it and then play it over each dom chord transposing it into each new key. 

Play your own stuff over this. There is a version with just bass.

Play the chords over it instead of lines. Play chords behind my solo. 

I hope you see that you can do so many things with a little material. 

Listening to music

Randy_Sutin 29 August 2022

Over the last week, I’ve been stuck in bed with a fever from COVID, so what else was there to do but listen to music?  (Rhetorical question) ...I began pondering whether what I doing was a waste of time.  WTF?  Was my fever making me irrational?  Of course, listening was great to do, so what was going on?

Here’s what I busted myself for doing: just lying there enjoying what I was listening to and letting it roll over me; I wasn’t in analytical or critical mode, nor was I trying to learn music.

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