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TOTM - Minority - Line Etude

tonymiceli 21 April 2017

Another study of upper partials based on the tune Minority. Write the chords in and then study the notes and see what they are.

Check out all the triads in the solo that don't relate to the main triad of the chord.

I.E. the chord is F7 and I play a D maj triad. Get it? It looks like a triad. but it's the 13th the b9 and the 5th of the chord.

Remember: One way to tell how experienced a jazz vibe play is is to listen to how far up the chords they go in the solos. How comfortable are they in making melodies out of the upper partials of the chords.

Gong Live

tonymiceli 21 April 2017

I knew the guitar player here. I talked about knowing someone from Gong in another post, but I couldn't remember who. They were playing in Marlton, NJ and then I remember the guitar player lived in Moorestown, very close by.

This is cool. The vibes seem not to be micd? maybe from underneath. but you can really hear him! pretty cool.
HE IS IN FRONT OF THE BAND AND THE AMPS!!!!

btw - John Keene found this for me! John is our vibes workshop historian. he knows a TON about the history of all this!

Gong!!!! Who Came First Gong or Double Image?

tonymiceli 17 April 2017

HEY @DAVID! MADE YOU LOOK! DO YOU KNOW GONG? the second tune sounds like a double image tune! (a little bit). Did you know these guys?

Gong was a really cool fusion group. I just the leader died. I listened to them back in the late 70's.

It was a life lesson for me because I know on of the guitar players, I think, or the vibe player! I can't remember, I was too high back then. I think it was one of the guitar players. He had a strange name I think.

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