I do duets with my private online students. What a great study in time, thinking ahead and accompaniment! I always do both parts also. Here's a duet I'm doing with a student. Maybe after he puts his part on I'll post his part as well my single part.

Hey there are plenty of other duets up here, btw!

I spent about 15 hours practicing a tune I wrote, 'Song For Meg'. I've always had trouble playing it solo. So I decided to really work through it and here it is.

I did most of the things I say here on the site, which then made me want to talk about it here. I separated the melody, worked on the chords, worked on my lines.

I spent a lot of time weaving the chords together and finding ways of being as melodic as I could be.

MSN's - Mandatory Strike Notes! :-) Sorry about the dumb name!!

This is all about MSN's. In other words moving from chords to chords there are notes that just HAVE TO be played. If they're not in your line then they have to be somewhere EVEN IF YOU JUST HIT THEM. They're needed to make the harmony move. When you really know what are the important notes of a tune then you can comp easier and play lines easier.

And if you target those notes in your lines, they'll help really make it all clear!