This video I introduced a new concept - approach note.
First, we practice the third sequence, then we add a chromatic approach note below the target note.
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🚨 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!
Check out the attached PDF!
I've done many of these type of lessons. But you know what, they're super important. You have to spend time experimenting with voicings to build your chord vocab. It takes time and work!
I made a cool play along and made a sort of etude. It's a chance for you guys to play over 2 simple chords and play some 4 mallet stuff and some lines. I will make a video and talk about the etude very soon.
But play this, learn this. Play along with me, and then use this stuff on your own. I use neighbor tones, bridges between whole steps. I.E. D Db C. If this was over a Dmin7 the important notes would be D and C and the bridge between them would be Db. Get it????
The audio and the pdf is attached.
I tried something new and talked through the piece. Is this helpful?
Print out the pdf to not only practice but for notes with the video.
You know what, to be very frank and mildly funny, the big boys and girls can play good 2 5 1 voicings.
Well rounded players can do all this stuff. You can tell how well rounded a player is by listening to them play a standard and comp. For whatever that is worth. I imagine if you are a blue grass vibe player and that's all you care about then you're not worrie about this etude. But if you want to be a decent jazz player this stuff I think is important.
We had a great workshop week this year! In the workshop, we spent a lot of time talking about ii-V's in minor and the various structures. This etude covers a few important positions for the half diminished chord; one where the root is in the bottom and the other where b5 is in the bottom. Also, it goes through some important closed and open positions.