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We played a blues and passed the choruses around the room. Our goal was to not mess up the form or the time. We did pretty good. Just a couple of glitches!!!

Motivic Playing on the first 8 bars of "Take The A Train"

Motivic Playing is one of the chapters that will be addressed in Volume Two of The Complete Guide To Improvisation. Here is an example of motivic playing on the first 8 measures of Take The A Train. (Thanks to Gustavo Agatiello for his input with the text).

Link to 8 measure music example on Motivic Playing:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0TwrpqjL6dQdVhkXzN1WXVhLVk/edit?usp=s…

Link to download the following text on Motivic Playing:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0TwrpqjL6dQdS1SalFMR0NEN3c/edit?usp=s…

Day 4: All the chords are in open position. Although they're in open position, you will see that some of the chords still have a lot of crunchiness. Try memorizing these voicings and maybe try them in a few different keys.