Hi, new forum user and new player here. My friend (who plays alto sax) and I are wanting to play Shorter's Black Nile at an upcoming jam session, and we both want to play the melody. However, we were curious about who should play what part on the tune's B section. Should I play the harmony part while my friend plays the main line on sax or vice versa? What's typical? Attached a picture of the relevant section in the sheet music. Thank you.
(Also, obligatory "sorry if this is in the wrong section")
Generally (no hard and fast rule) the sax would take the top line. Thats just because sax will blow guitar out of the water in terms of projection and the top line is usually the melody.
Listen to Miles and Milt Jackson on Bags Groove. Miles plays the melody the first time, while Milt plays the lower line. Then they switch. But whatever miles is playing sounds like the melody because of how much better the instrument cuts through.
Agreed.
Can someone explain why he says the #IV m7b5 acts as a tonic??
For example in the key of G, a Dbm7b5 doesn't sound good in a II V I subbing for the tonic.
I think of Dbm7b5 => Bbm6...
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LBG is more like
I IV7 I V7
You wouldn’t tend to play II7
I mentioned it because Bird makes a feature of that II7, using the A train chord - Eb+ on F7 in this case (F9#11 overall.)
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Also some thread cross pollination. Lady Be Good uses that iv minor but also the #iv diminished in the B section, both serving the same purpose.
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Barry said it’s hard to be as free with scale use as with chord tones and intervals.
Pentatonics are freeing because they represent what to our post Debussy post jazz...
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And pentatonics, which haven’t really come up much here. Which is interesting because they sort of purposefully obscure that scale/arpeggio, key/changes dichotomy.
Not finding much time to record but thought I'd throw this up. I like playing to a metronome so you hear some swoosh in the background
https://youtu.be/7ToYY350hHw
You have probably checked out the lesson recording someone posted online years ago with Pat teaching this. that recording is great advice for the intermediate player who knows their scales and so on,...
Thanks for that!! Sorry about the delayed response - it's been a very busy 2 weeks, with 7 gigs in 14 days.
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