All the Things You Are: Anatomy of a Tune

[m78w]

Hey Everyone

Just wanted to share a new lesson on my site, the latest installment in my Anatomy of a Tune Series.

In this edition I take apart All the Things You Are from the perspective of building a chord melody, comping, analyzing the progression and intervallic structure of the melody line.

All the Things You Are: Anatomy of a Tune | MattWarnockGuitar.com

Check it out, cheers!

[augusjazz]

Thanks for sharing.

[m78w]

no problem, thanks for checking it out!

[augusjazz]

If you do not mind, I would like to know your opinion on this recording made ​​by my:

All the things you are - Gibson ES 335 PRO - YouTube

Sorry about the breach of trust.

[m78w]

No worries, do you want me to post the comments here or would you rather I send you a private message?

[augusjazz]

Originally Posted by m78w

No worries, do you want me to post the comments here or would you rather I send you a private message?

This is fine, because mistakes you find are used to learning for all.
Thank you very much.

[jcayer]

Matt,

that is what I call: ANALYSIS ...
Thank's for sharing your knowledge.

[m78w]

Jean, thanks glad you dug it!

[jsepguitar]

I love your "Anatomy of a Tune" series. I hope you plan to do more of these.

[m78w]

AugusJazz: Sure. I like your tone, cool modern sound. You have a lot of good ideas and understanding of fundamental scales and arpeggios etc. If I were to give any advice I would say that the tempo was a bit fast, or that you were feeling it in 4 so it got away from you at times, it happens.

Maybe try working on nailing your ideas on slower tunes and then go back and try the faster tempos. Just needs a little cleaning up rhythmically, a bit more solid on the time in places.

You might want to think of this tempo in 1 as well, so try blowing on it but tap your foot only on the first beat of each bar, that might help relax the tempo a bit and lock you lines into the time more.

Then I would just say keep checking out vocabulary, digging into chromatics both harmonically and melodically as you get deeper into your solo. That's all, stuff we all need to work on!

Great recording man. Just some small things to take back to the practice room if you're interested.

[augusjazz]

Originally Posted by m78w

AugusJazz: Sure. I like your tone, cool modern sound. You have a lot of good ideas and understanding of fundamental scales and arpeggios etc. If I were to give any advice I would say that the tempo was a bit fast, or that you were feeling it in 4 so it got away from you at times, it happens.

Maybe try working on nailing your ideas on slower tunes and then go back and try the faster tempos. Just needs a little cleaning up rhythmically, a bit more solid on the time in places.

You might want to think of this tempo in 1 as well, so try blowing on it but tap your foot only on the first beat of each bar, that might help relax the tempo a bit and lock you lines into the time more.

Then I would just say keep checking out vocabulary, digging into chromatics both harmonically and melodically as you get deeper into your solo. That's all, stuff we all need to work on!

Great recording man. Just some small things to take back to the practice room if you're interested.

Thank you very much for their concepts.
Of course I will bring to the practice, I intend to be a better musician and guitarist.
Thank you very much for your time and cooperation.

[m78w]

For sure, I listened to it again. When you check it out in the practice room again, maybe try to build your solo off the melody line a bit more. there is tons of material just in that melody line. 3rds and 7ths, the interval of a 4th, the climb up leading to bridge (stacked 4th and 5th). Sometimes the best thing we can do is dig into the melody line and then branch out from there. Just a thought.

[augusjazz]

Originally Posted by m78w

For sure, I listened to it again. When you check it out in the practice room again, maybe try to build your solo off the melody line a bit more. there is tons of material just in that melody line. 3rds and 7ths, the interval of a 4th, the climb up leading to bridge (stacked 4th and 5th). Sometimes the best thing we can do is dig into the melody line and then branch out from there. Just a thought.

Thank you very much!
I will work from the melodic ideas of the subject, a slower tempo and trying to make a melodic motivs development of the subject.
I have many things to improve and their tips are a great help.
Thank you, you are very generous with his knowledge.
(Sorry for my english is google translator)

[dmorash]

Nice broad analysis. I've been working on that tune for a long while. I had a teacher who theorized that if you knew that tune really well you would be prepared to play most anything else.

That walk up/walk down thing where the chords change from major to minor is new to me - cool. Thanks for posting it.

[m78w]

For sure, between this tune, Take the A Train, Rhythm Changes and Blues you can cover a ton of ground in the jazz standard idiom.

Thanks for checking it out!

[JakeAcci]

Cool post, and sorry if the following question comes off as a "I'm a jerk on the internet" kind of question, but: do you have any clips online of you playing this tune, or one similar?

[m78w]

Thanks, I don't have a video of my playing this tune on the web, but there are a few standards on my youtube channel. I haven't had the time to get many videos up but I'm hoping to do more video stuff in 2012.

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[Franklin52]

Great as always, thanks Matt.

[m78w]

No problem Franklin, thanks for checking it out!

[AlsoRan]

Great timing. I have been trying to take the advice of some of the forum members and have been transcribing songs. This is the song I have been working on and using to experiment with different comping techniques.

Add me to the list of the thankful. You have come through yet again for us.

[m78w]

Cool good timing indeed! The first article in this series I did was on A Train, and I was thinking of a common standard that most jazz guitarists work on, and since this was the first one I ever tackled back in the day I decided it was good choice.

Hope it's helpful!

[jckoto3]

Hey m78w,

Do you think you could do one of these for Misty sometime? I've tried to break this one down myself, but there are a few bars here and there that still mystify me more than I'd like to admit.

Anyway, great stuff you've got up for ATTYA and A train. I feel I've already learned a lot from your analysis', even moreso when they start to "sink in".

[m78w]

Thanks man, they're fun articles to write! Since I launched the series I've had a ton of people request tunes, so far I've got Summertime, Skylark and Bluesette coming up next. After that I can try and get to Misty. Just remind me after you see a few more of these pop up when I'm caught up with the current requests.

Cheers,

[jckoto3]

m78w,

Sounds like a good set of tunes, and repertoire for those of us lacking repertoire. I really hope you keep on this -- not like a daily obligation or anything like that, but when you feel inspired to do it.

[m78w]

Yeah I'm hoping to do one a week for a little while, I've got a move coming up to the UK so I'll be taking a week or so off the site to take care of that, but then things should get back to normal.

[m78w]

Hey Everyone,

Just posted the latest addition to my Anatomy of a Tune series, Summertime, just wanted to pass it along.

Summertime: Anatomy of a Tune | MattWarnockGuitar.com

[Scot63]

I can't wait to give this a try. I just went through your II-V video featuring rootless Vs yesterday and found it very helpful. And your solo arrangement of "Stella" is a knockout!

[m78w]

Thanks Scot, hope you dig it. Thanks for checking out my videos and I appreciate the kind words.

I also post weekly video lessons on my Facebook page, so if you're interested you can find more there as well.

https://www.facebook.com/mattwarnockguitar

Cheers

[Double 07]

Nice work Matt

[m78w]

Thanks 007!