George Benson method, Peter Farrell

[sjl]

I think Peter is such a player but this info needs a better, easier, detailed and slow explanation. Peter seems to be always under the effect of ten coffees.

[Reg]

yea... I've always been GB fan...(and peter) Almost any jazz musician likes the typical Relative and Parallel relationships... who doesn't, it's the basic source for expanding harmony etc... Not magic. I like to think and hear MM as a Sub for Dorian, source for expanding with common II V chord patterns. Great way to make use of Blue Notes without that vanilla embellishment sound. Harmonic Min. as expanding harmony is old old school sound, still cool and we all use it, but can get vanilla.

So obviously expanding the relative and parallel secret approach with Modal concepts covers much better, but now we're getting too deep. peter could probable make almost any approach sound great..... Nothing like having technique.

[Eck]

I don't understand that diagram, how is that even a c major scale?

As far as chord symbols go in this TAB, Cmaj and Am7 are both comprise of notes of the C major scale. So are F#11, Dm7, Em7, G7, and B-5min7. But a playing a G7 arpeggio will probably feel as if you’ve moved to the V and are going back to the I. The F#11 probably has too strong a tonality of its own (it’s possibly my favourite chord). Fun starts when you’re picking notes outside the major scale and still make it fit.


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[Miché]

Nice Miko. But I'll like it if I can get more lessons on improvisation from you.

[benson251]

Thanks for the great tutorial mikostep but unfortunately all the YouTube and Facebook videos have gone "private" or disappeared. Do you perhaps have alternative links or at least the video names so that I can search the internet for the videos? They must be there somewhere.