All the things you are - connecting improv phrases
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2024
- Learning to flow in improvisation over tricky chord changes (without stopping) is really helpful when playing jazz. In this lesson, we'll use an area of the tune All the things you are with lots of ideas and examples so you can do it too!
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0:00 Introduction
2:06 Examples
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Another brilliant video - I heard someone the other day say that harmony can be taught but not melody (as in melodic improvisation ). You’re proving them very wrong . From one music teacher to another thankyou very much - more on this please !
Thank you so much. Keep watching :)
This material is more valuable than you can imagine!! Of you don't seriously study this you've rocks in your head. Thanks Shan!
Instead of DbM7 to G7 to CM7, I used DbM7 to Db7 to CM7. The Db7 is a Tritone substitution for G7. Good for variety the second or third time thru.
Thank you for your kindness. I've been stuck for many years, cannot find the way out. My improvisation sound terrible even the scale is right. Now I know the one problem is connecting thue scale.
Always helpful. There’s always something to ponder in your lessons . Thanks again .
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Thank you Charles. I appreciate your kind comment.
Thanks for this video... Really helpful and well explained.
My pleasure Stuart. Thanks a lot and I wish you good jazz!
Ah, just checking out Airgin and well written in Ab but its a similiar transition with the 4/M going to the 7/7 though its really a b5/m11 a bit of a sus of that 7/7... Anyway kind of neat tune too.... That one might be interesting to try playing on that turnaround type thing. Really thanks for the lesson here its very useful and makes much sense. Thinking a little about the lesson in relation to a tune as far as how you mention it turns into something , I realize who wrote these tunes were doing a similar thing to come up with them!
Helpful indeed, thanks!
Great video. Thanks
"So you can see all the things you could do to... " be All the things you are!
That Fmin7 used to always throw me for a loop. Once I started studying Barry Harris and all his 6th chord harmony--it dawned on me. Fmin7=Abmaj6. So you get I V V I IV. Much easier to be melodic that way. Same idea with the 9th measure. Cmin7=Ebmaj6.
Awesome Video. I’m currently working on this. What are the other Videoa you’ve done related to this? Any pdf’s exercises to go along with this? If not, you should do some 🎹👍🏿
What happenes when you play D-7b5 before G7?
It doesn't change much really. It's a Cole Porter thing, using the IIb5 and resolving on the IMaj7. It sounds a little weird, because your ear is expecting a Imin7 as resolution.
oops make that : If (not Of) . Sorry!
There's a famous Barry Harris video where he talks about cmin7 chord at the end of All the Things you Are and he tells the student what notes can and can't play with it. To tell you the truth I haven't quite grasp what he was trying to get across. Do you know which passage ( and which video) I mean? So if I do your exercise with that passage, I use the A flat maj, scale so the d is flat, right?
That Cmin chord at the end of "All the Things" is the 3rd degree of Ab so it should share notes with that tonic chord in order for the melody to be the prettiest. That Cmin should have a b9 (Db), a 4 (F) and a b6 (Ab).
Players brought up in the simplistic "play Dorian over every Min7 chord" mentality miss out on this and end up playing shitty melodies.