Great lesson to break into playing tunes solo.
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Great lesson to break into playing tunes solo.
Here are links to all the other vids:
I always try and play a version of the tune I'm doing a lesson on. My 2024 version of Israel is here.
Here's a lesson on Israel. I know I've put up lessons in the past. Well I didn't think of until I started doing the lessons.
Maybe I cover some of the same stuff. However....
In this version I'm attaching a pdf of my arrangement of the head as well as some simple etudes based on the first few bars of the tune!
Warren Wolf has a shirt that says, 'No One Cares, Practice'.
I think that's a power message for students. It's your turn!
Your turn to solve the same problems as Gary Burton, Mike Manieri, Milt Jackson and all the rest of the great vibe players.
I'm just talking through the tune Peace. My 2 cents kind of thing!!!
This is an etude for Donna Lee that is all 8th notes. Of course we don't necessarily want to play a solo like this, but it's a good study in weaving around the changes.
This another short practice video working on "Tangerine." There is a brief warm up then a take of the arrangement I have been working on. If anyone is interested, I can write it out and post a pdf. The next step is putting it all together with some improvising.
I've made other lessons here with the same theme. Make it sound like the song.
It's our job in a way. Sure the heavy weights do this or that. But a true heavy weight can make it sound like the song. Once you have mastered that then you can take liberties. Listen to some of the solo Chick Corea CDs. He takes liberties but he's a monster!
I've done other etudes with Cherokee, but here's a new one. I like doing certain tunes even if I'm doing another something for that tune. Some tunes have so many progressions in them that when you learn them, you learn many many other tunes at the same time because they have pieces of these progressions. So learn this one again it's best. If you memorize it, play it and play it and play it study it study the harmony study the upper partial, see what you remember when you make up your own solo or you do your own comping.
Here's what to know and do: