I will do a chord melody and either post it here, or as a separate post.
🚨 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:
Let's work on comping!
Do you know the chords!!! :-)
Body and Soul (comp. J. W. Green) Vibraphone Solo Arrangement and Reharm. by Franz Bauer
🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 13
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been combining blues melodies with chord voicings and moving toward a fuller chord melody approach.
This week, we use a very simple melody:
👉 “C Jam Blues”
Because the melody is so minimal, it gives us room to focus on something else:
👉 Dense harmonic movement underneath the melody
This lesson introduces several important concepts:
quick video here, but think about and practice this a little bit.
check this out. Practice this way. Not that you will use it all the time, but you might use it a lot!
this is my stuff. Those of you who have been on the site for a long time, have heard some of this before.
It has to sound like the song when you solo. That means you know the changes or have AMAZING ears.
Here's my take of Tony's blues super pack transcription in Bb.