Easy Living by Ralph Rainger
I've been working on getting used to playing full tunes with intro and endings
Here is the answer: Find the shape you like and come up with different sticking, then go through different scale!!!
If you don't know what is the rootless voicing, no worries! we'll talk more later!!
come up with your own sticking ideas and some interesting shapes!! BTW, check out Tony's video:https://www.vibesworkshop.com/video-embed/chords/tonymiceli/070225
Check out the attached PDF!
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 14
We’ve covered a lot over the course of this series:
• Guide tones
• Blues comping
• Chromaticism
• Whole tone and diminished language
• Chord melody textures
• Harmonic movement underneath simple melodies
For our final lesson, we bring many of those ideas together using:
👉 “The Intimacy of the Blues”
This arrangement continues the idea of using a relatively simple melody as a framework for richer harmonic movement underneath.
This week introduces:
Check out the attached PDF!
Check out the attached PDF!
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.
Great lesson to break into playing tunes solo.
Here are links to all the other vids:
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 :-).