Lesson on Improvisation - Playing over changes.

[matt.guitarteacher]

Agreed. Glad you're coming around on this.

Now, Eb6 on D7, there's a sound I can get into.

Ha ha.

I need to get off the internet. I'm sitting by myself laughing at a statement which no one else in my daily life would even understand. :-)

[joe2758]

oh crap did I miss a joke

[matt.guitarteacher]

Jeff, did you mean Ebmin6, or were you making a point out of having the natural 11? Thanks, just trying to learn

It's a Cmin7 joke (if there is such a thing). Eb6 = Cmin7. Hence, his "not Cmin7", play Eb6".

[joe2758]

right, went straight over my head. funny bc Ebm6 is a standard sub in barry harris land

[christianm77]

It's a Cmin7 joke (if there is such a thing). Eb6 = Cmin7. Hence, his "not Cmin7", play Eb6".

Yes, there is a first for everything.

[Vladan]

Huh, I've never seen that, but I'm not an expert reader so you may be right.

Here are two other transcriptions that I grabbed off the web. Both are written without key signatures and both write that note as an F#.
D Natural Blues
http://www.brucesaunders.com/Resourc...20no%20tab.pdf

I've just checked those notations. As per my understanding of notation one from "slideshare" says F#, while one from "brucesounders" says F(natural).
I even went that far to find the tune on YT and listen to Wes playing. I think your version, with G, is the closest match.

[Groyniad]

i agree the why is for the philosophers

one of the things - as an ex-philosopher - that i love so much about the jazz is that i don't give a crap about why - just what and how (and maybe when)

i don't really want to read any more of c77 and reg going at it

if i understand four words reg. writes in a row its a very unusual day

but i understand every word c77 writes

you can understand the same empirical phenomenon in lots of different ways - the same item can figure in lots of different pictures - perhaps from different angles. the question can even arise - about one and the same item - if it really is the same thing looked at from different angles in different pictures or is it a whole different thing.

those questions can get boring - or not.

in music they get boring.

i did a post ages ago proposing that - because using minor 6 chords to capture the array of dominant sounds c77 has so helpfully identified is SO SIMPLE - it just must have been the way anti-theoretical early be-bop musicians thought about it all.

i think that is bound to be right - and if it is - it gives my barry harris way of explaining it all - or c77's - a certain priority over the modal approach favored by reg.

but only a certain priority. any way to the same place is fine - as long as its not too circumlocutory

[Groyniad]

look down look down
the lonesome road
before you travel on

1927 this was written

the change on the second syllable of 'before' is Abm6 to Ebmaj

as i just worked it out i thought i'd mention it