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Friedman Etude 13

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Workshop Recap - Harmonization Exercise Pt. 3 by Behn Gillece

Friedman 13

Four keys (C, Db, D, and Eb)

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Continuing my slow march through Tony's 15 week lessons - here's lesson 4.

"Talk about chord melody".  This is where you accompany yourself by playing some harmony behind your melody line.  It's a good skill for comping for yourself when soloing, for doing more interesting and melodic comping for others, and for solo vibes playing.  The assignment here calls for leaving out the roots (except on min 7 b5) which leaves room for some nice tensions.

🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Body & Soul – Week 4

We've reached Week 4, the final lesson in our study of "Body and Soul"!

Over the past three weeks, we've developed two different sets of voicings and begun combining those ideas into a complete chord-melody arrangement.

Last week, we introduced what I called a "simple" chord melody, although there was certainly plenty of challenging material to work through!