This lesson is for my student Chien Chien, but you guys can practice it as well!

I just wanted to give her a chorus of chords over the jazz tune Tricotism and then a chorus of a simple solo, outlining the chords. Making a solo in a simple way.

I hear so many students playing all this 'stuff' over a tune and then I ask them to play something very simple and they can't. Chien Chien can. She's an amazing musician with ears we all wish we had. Most of our lesson I just play the chords, I don't have to tell her what chords they are.

An old member of the site (Tifoo) sent this transcription from one of my videos of Bluesette. It's just the head, but I thought I'd post it.

Here's the video: http://www.vibesworkshop.com/video/bluesette-video/tonymiceli/010109

The transcription is below.

Some tips on combining 5 and 4.

找適當的音階對應和弦 Putting the Scales in the Chords

你可以用這個方式想想：和弦音、和弦音以外的音，這兩種因素組成了音階。
＊以下譜例：和弦音（圖一）、和弦音以外的音（圖二）、把這兩個放在一起得到Dorian音階。

I've been up in the mountains this week. Brought my gear up. Lots of time to think and practice. Here is a stream of consciousness about the tune Peace.

Do you guys get stuff out of posts like these? This is pretty advanced stuff I think and you do have to know the tune well to follow me. But this is how me and my buddies teach each other stuff, we play stuff and talk about it. I do this on this tune, he does this over here, copped this off a record of Chick playing this over this tune, and on.

Ok, let's close this up. There are a lot of lessons now about chords and harmony. For those of you who studied I'm sure you learned a ton.

So now demonstrate it. Work on a tune for a couple days and post something. Play chord melody, play solo, whatever but put it to good use and apply it while it's fresh.

Let's move on to the other side of all this and that's the line.

Post your 'final' here!

Lesson in June left me with two tasks.