Continued lecture/demo lesson on learning tunes.

Hi guys This month i'm going to give you my solo version of the unknown standard called "Everything I love".

For the first one who post his own solo version, playing the head as I wrote it down, he will have a FREE skype lesson with me!!
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Giovanni

Revisiting a beautiful song written by the great bassist Steve Swallow. I first learned this composition while studying with Gary as a student at Berklee in the 70s. Steve wrote so many great compositions and this is certainly one of them.

This semester I have been working with my teacher on playing ballads in the solo style and wanted to share a system/ exercise that I've been using to begin developing orchestration ideas when playing the melody. The following exercise is based on a concept I modified from John Mehegan’s “Jazz Improvisation 4: Contemporary Piano Styles” called “Root – Chord Patterns”.

After doing the walk down voicing exercise comparing Green Dolphin Street and Triste, I thought it would be good to do a line study. This Triste etude is in A, a typically under played key in jazz. Most of it is built from only a few motifs. Find them and practice hard :)

Volume Two of the Complete Guide To Improvisation is now available via Amazon, www:edsaindon.com and the Berklee College of Music bookstore.

Chapters: Upper Structure Triads, Four Note Groupings, Motivic Playing, Cyclic Patterns and Major 7th #5 Superimposition. Here's a link that includes the Table of Contents and brief description of each chapter.

https://drive.google.com/a/berklee.edu/file/d/0B0TwrpqjL6dQYnlpcTZyeUQ1…

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Nice mallet lab this morning working with the students on Coltrane's Giant Steps using Four Note Groupings. We played through several pages from Volume 2 of The Complete Guide to Improvisation which is now available via www:edsaindon.com. It will also be available in the Berklee College of Music bookstore and on Amazon within a day or so.