Here is part two of the guide tones etude. Notice more have been added, with approach tones getting in and out of them.
Hey guys, I hope All The Things is still TOTM. Here are a few choruses on All The Things using chord tones. I think it's important to be able to improvise with strictly chord tones and try to make it sound as musical as possible. It's not easy since all of the notes are stable notes, but only using chord tones allows us to focus on other issues like smoothly making the connection from chord to chord, use of motives, time feel, experimenting with various rhythms, starting phrases in different places in the measure, beginning a phrase on an upbeat vs.
I deleted my previous text because I did a second take of the tune.
It's recorded better!
So who wants to play a duet with me?
Download the file with just 1 part. It's attached here. Put on headphones and record your self playing along.
Put it together with your audio program. Upload and let us hear it!
There's an etude here in here called "Line Etude for First Half." For extra credit, create a 2nd half for it :)
How about we build a list of Essential Blues heads. The must knows.
Billies Bounce
Bags Groove (of course)
Sonymoon for Two
Straight No Chaser
Footprints
Berks Works
I'll stop there. what others? it would be great if we had a list of 20 of them, major and minor