Great lesson to break into playing tunes solo.
Here are links to all the other vids:
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 12
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working with blues melodies and combining them with chord voicings—moving toward a more complete, chord melody approach.
This week, we introduce a new tune:
👉 “Sonnymoon for Two”
This melody has a slightly different character than Bag’s Groove—it’s more rhythmically active and sits differently against the harmony.
In this version, you’ll notice:
Rhythm Changes - Harmonic Vocabulary on the A Pt. 1
In this series, we’ll explore harmonic vocabulary for comping over the A sections of rhythm changes. In Pt. 1, we start with a common and widely used set of standard changes, providing a strong foundation for comping.
One key concept in this approach is treating the top note of each chord as a melodic line—essentially harmonizing a simple, stepwise motion. This helps create a natural, connected flow between voicings rather than thinking of each chord in isolation.
Check out the attached PDF!
Check out the attached PDF!
Check out the attached PDF!
Check out the attached PDF!
Check out the attached PDF!
Here is an etude I did for a student based on Maiden Voyage. I always laugh when I call something like this an etude, but I guess it sort of is.
I just get on the Malletkat with some ideas I want to pass along to the student and I just play. Then I quantize for notation purposes and then I dump it into Musescore or Sibelius do a final clean up and print a pdf!
My student was playing this tune and was playing minor thirds over the suspended chord. A suspended 7th chord goes with a mixolydian scale.
Another you should be able to do this. Can you? If not practice :-).