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Lots of talk about changes lately, got me thinking...are there any tunes you've found just brutal getting internalized?
For me it's Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. And then of course, it's got different chords for the solos (at least those are easier to internalize)
Anybody have songs that really trip them up? And how did you get it together?
Feel free to chime in with your own or help others with theirs...
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02-16-2024 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Stella in any key but Bb gave me trouble.
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Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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Stardust.
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Originally Posted by jameslovestal
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Originally Posted by John A.
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If it happens I simplify them. Then when I'm playing the simple stuff I think 'This is a bit simple' and I remember how it ought to go. Magic :-)
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I have the opposite problem. I seem to be able to remember changes easily, but I will flub heads if I don't practice my repertoire very frequently.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
I had to look this one up, after I heard it. I found a couple good charts here. thanks to those guys for posting them ! This aint Autumn Leaves -LOL
I've had to rely on my stripped down, 3 note voicings for this, in that way I'll reuse a couple forms for different chords. I REALLY have to get the melody down cold. it's just 12 bars in the main section, but it feels a couple bars too long. This is the lowest, downest blues I've ever heard .... it nearly strangles the life out of you before it lets you up -LOL
I like to "nod" too the melody for a solo, but I don't know man ... this one's a work out.
...freakin Mingus...
-Cheers,
Mike
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Getting my jazz blues changes together on Hammond about killed me lol. I had to play it every day for like 2 years. Outlining the changes in the bass in the left hand and then doing blues vocab in the right hand while hitting the changes some of the time. Some of the changes are quick and you have to keep track of that in the left hand while phrasing just on the 1 blues vocab over that.
The changes I use.
C7 / F7 / C7 / G-7 C7
F7 / F7 / C7 / E-7 A7
D-7 / G7 / C7 A7 / D-7 G7
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I'd change key. Most blues are in F or Bb.
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I play all my tunes in every key. I spend several days in 1 key and play everything in that key then move up a half step. That could be why it took so long for it to take, but I don't like being inept in some of the keys.
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I’m inept in all keys.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Smith
Keys of tunes which occur more than most will stick in the mind more than an ascending exercise because there they simply all mush together.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
So you could probably focus
I do things in other keys but usually work around the circle in the direction of more common keys. All the Things in Ab … then Eb … Bb … etc. that way if I get bored then I got the big stuff.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
Last edited by Bobby Timmons; 02-22-2024 at 05:54 PM.
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