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10-28-2022 01:26 PM
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Good stuff. The descending scales starting from the b7 of the dominant chord to the 3rd of the VI7 really sticks out, in terms of scale practice to me. it’s a great way to make the chord change in lines.
I7 VI7: F7 D7
F7 from the b7 down to the 3rd of D7 probably would have made a better scale pattern than the F7 up from the R to the b7 in bar 11 of your blues? I’m curious why you chose the F7 up from the R instead.
What I like about these scales is You eventually learn this in a very tactile way on the fingerboard. Your point about one octave patterns made for jazz is right on.Last edited by NSJ; 10-29-2022 at 12:47 AM.
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I couldn't get past the dreadful toffee accent.
Wink is as good as a nudge to a blind bat.
Lovely phrasing, clear explanations. Nice house.
Posted from the colonies.Last edited by A. Kingstone; 10-28-2022 at 10:10 PM.
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I just wanna say the polyrhythmic feel of playing three note patterns in a duple feel is not easy to pull off, but is also very bebop. Nice demos of that. Bird did it all the time, achieving Polyrhythms across the bar line.
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Also: the half step rules. It seems to me it’s not so straight cut to add or not add half steps if they are even or odd numbers of the scale. A line that begins with a 2-4-6 COULD add a half step if the even note (2-4-6) begins on an “and” or offbeat. Say, starting, in the key of C, on an F (the P4) and descending. If the F starts on an offbeat/AND, the next note E (the M3) would be on downbeat and a half step would be added to keep the chord tones on the downbeat.
Your assertion-that the half steps are added on the odd notes (1357) and not on the even notes (246) would be clearly true if the line began on on the downbeat and not the off-beat.
Please correct me if I”m wrong. Thanks.
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At ca. 4:40 the scale outline in bar 2 sounds a bit strange because the bassline is playing no quick change blues (no IV in bar 2)
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
yeah I thought that but then didn’t have time to change it. I don’t think it matters too much, I actually quite like it.
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Originally Posted by NSJ
(In any case I don’t really talk about how the chord tones line up but rather how we ‘come out right’ which is how I always heard Barry put it.)
now have a look at my solo haha.
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Originally Posted by NSJ
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Originally Posted by NSJ
Btw these are not my preferred blues changes for soloing.
You can totally do that and it would sound good. There’s always variations. Maybe I’ll do a vid on like 20 back to back variations of the blues or something. I need to do one for RC as well.
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Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
It is a OK sounding but it doesn’t really serve the purpose of illustrating the changes with the outline.
Nice video nonetheless.
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
For a glimpse into the exciting world of Youtubery, have a look at my video editor time line lol
If I corrected every detail I’d never get the things out. I know, this much work for a bloke in front of a camera. Mental, huh? I don’t think it’s that unusual to have that level of editing either.
tbh I miss the days where I could switch on a camera and umm and ahh for thirty minutes and thousands of people would inexplicably watch it. Received wisdom is that the algorithm changed and now it’s all engagement and watch time. Keep it snappy, keep up the energy etc.
in all honesty, I’m thinking the amount of work it took to get the last few vids together may not be supportable if I want to like, do anything else. I may be chasing a level of production that I can’t keep up (no please don’t laugh) and that’s what the level on Music YouTube - even jazz guitar YouTube - these days seems to be. Jens with his quick fire memes and dry humour. The boy Barnby with his perfect hour long deep dives. I’m guessing they don’t get out much lol. But then I’m guessing it’s Jens’ main job or at least a major income stream, which is not a relationship I ever want to have with YT. I suppose Chris Parks is pretty straight to camera (but he’s so good at saying what he’s going to say clearly and succinctly without going off on a tangent, something I find very hard to do….)
mind you there’s a older guy who’s got thirty times the subs I do who does unedited 45 minute lectures in front of a whiteboard on classical harmony, while En Blanc Et Noirs utterly brilliant videos have a viewership of, well, me.
so maybe the ‘received wisdom’ is bullshit, esp for niche content.
That said I wanted something clearer and more helpful than my old videos which contained exactly the same info. I feel I did that, or at least a better job than I had. Barry Harris material usually does well so I feel the time input is more justified.
sorry for the stunlock lol. This nonsense is actually quite a big part of my life god help meLast edited by Christian Miller; 10-29-2022 at 04:49 AM.
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
His YT related income I would expect would mostly come from his various online courses, Patreon, private students and so on. I don’t know if he can afford an editor/producer off the back of that, but it’s getting there at least. his content is quite high effort and has become much more refined.
However at the stage he’s at he doesn’t need to do a video every week, so maybe he can still do it as a one man band
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Originally Posted by NSJ
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
Aside from that that it’s mostly editing out umms and aahs, dead air, false starts, repetition, hesitation, poorly played demonstrations and so on.
look at something like a Jens Larsen or David Bruce video - even though I think it’s very scripted you can see that it is very obviously HEAVILY edited.
I then need to add in notation for demonstrations, appropriate images and video clips and so on. Tabs specifically are a pain in the arse to prepare and philosophically I wish the vast majority of guitarists didn’t require them. Logic allows me to transcribe what I play without actually having to sit down and do it, but the resulting file still needs cleaning up and formatting esp as Musescore has no idea what constitutes a playable guitar fingering.
This all gets gets very piecemeal, is a lot of work and I think I’d need to do it even if I was essentially reading off the screen.
YouTube is a lot of work, if you do it this way, which is the mainstream way to do it. That said, although I am happier with these videos, I’m not noticing an uptick of performance on the more edited videos, so maybe I’ll spend less time on this aspect. Or I might make my videos shorter. As average watch time is around 6m maybe this is a good length of video and enough time to spend on one small thing.
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
my little girls know what they like and I have little or no influence. Do you think it’s my choice that I know all the words to the songs from Frozen?
Society is to blame!!! ;-)
They are into all sorts of stuff though.Last edited by Christian Miller; 10-30-2022 at 05:14 AM.
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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I was just minding my own business, happily after the Arsenal match, after we thrashed Forest all the way back to Nottingham so badly, even the Sheriff won’t be able to them.. ..I was practicing some scale of chords on my 8 string, when what the hell did just witness in the 98th minute????
UNION BERLIN! GET IN THERE! G’won! Take a bow, sons!
Talk about a scaled step from ABOVE. Absolutely GLORIOUS! That warrants a “Magisterial” or two. Where the hell is Ray Hudson??? (Probably still on La Liga duty, with both Barça and the Merenges Regime-Fascists playing today…
Tine to get stuck in lads with the dom7 scales for sure,
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