2 - 5 what?
Does anybody have access to Gary Potters article entitled "Analyzing Improvised Jazz"?
Can you suggest other works of this nature written by players?
I don't have access to any of the College Music Society publications.
tia,
-Todd
Ok. So I just finished watching Tony's video series over Stella and I realized something.... I rarely work things through 12 keys. I once tried to learn Stella in C and failed miserably.
I keep hearing over and over about working in all keys but I keep being stubborn and not doing it. I really don't know the best way to go about it.
Ok, I see all these videos of you guys comping for yourself. How do you do it? I'm sure it's not a simple answer. I recently had a gig filling in for my jazz piano teacher on vibes. it was a trio setting and i could not for the life of me comp for myself. Every time I took a solo I would just have to go Strollin'. Should I just be focusing on the 3rd and 7th? The video I was watching was Tony burning through Cherokee, or when he played Giant Steps last night.
I am posting the music to just the A section of a diatonic song in C. This is a 6/8 dance song from the state of Chiapas in Mexico. See if you can harmonize it in closed voicings and drop 2.
Once you have the hang of it, try it in all keys. It is a handy melody for getting your feet wet with drop 2. It modulates to the IV and V7 chords, it is diatonic, it has both scalar and arpeggiated motion and not too fast to execute.
Updated 2/16/09:
Here's some thoughts on using 4ths to create interesting comping lines. I love how Bill Evans uses 4ths so fluidly. Stacked 4ths lay really nice on the vibe and you can take them in many directions.
enjoy
I was going through some old finale files and came across some charts i did for a recording project in 1999 called "April Sessions"
This session is special to me because the pianist on this record, Bobby Peterson, was a local treasure - a brilliant player who spent time in Buddy Riches band and then made the Twin Cities his home - and performed here regularly. Sadly we lost him July 8, 2002 at the age of 52 to a heart condition - (he was packing up after a gig when we lost him).