Blue Bossa solo idea

[MikkoKarhula]

Hi!

Blue Bossa is great piece for practicing key change in soloing because there's only one and the piece is fairly simple in other terms too. In this solo I tried to make the shift as natural I could and use beautiful but interisting lines. I hope you like it!

Kindest, Mikko

Blue Bossa - Solo - YouTube

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[KingKong]

It is indeed a great piece, I find the Brazilian rhythms much more enjoyable to solo over than other standards’ backing tracks, where I just seem to end up knocking out 8th notes ad infinitum. Search YouTube for ‘blue bossa backing track 150bpm’, the faster pace is a lot of fun to get yourself in and out of traps with.

The key change is pretty easy to negotiate. As it comes after the resolution to the 1 of the minor 251, most things I hear, people seem to take a little break then start off again in the new key.

Nice playing on the video, it’s more of a demo than a lesson though, the only thing u can really concretely take from it is to take a breather after a hard part.... I’m all for that, both for the player’s benefit and the listener, so they can take in what you just did.

Never seen a guitar like that before also, what is it, like nylon strings with a microphone pick up on it? Sounds good whatever it is.

[MikkoKarhula]

It is indeed a great piece, I find the Brazilian rhythms much more enjoyable to solo over than other standards’ backing tracks, where I just seem to end up knocking out 8th notes ad infinitum. Search YouTube for ‘blue bossa backing track 150bpm’, the faster pace is a lot of fun to get yourself in and out of traps with.

The key change is pretty easy to negotiate. As it comes after the resolution to the 1 of the minor 251, most things I hear, people seem to take a little break then start off again in the new key.

Nice playing on the video, it’s more of a demo than a lesson though, the only thing u can really concretely take from it is to take a breather after a hard part.... I’m all for that, both for the player’s benefit and the listener, so they can take in what you just did.

Never seen a guitar like that before also, what is it, like nylon strings with a microphone pick up on it? Sounds good whatever it is.

Thank you very much!
The guitar is Yamaha's silent guitar I have little bit modified. It has nylon strings and pickup.

-Mikko

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[veejazz]

Blue Bossa has that classic, memorable, jazz melody, at least for me it does. I just can not get enough!

[RunningBeagle]

Great tune. It occurs to me the harmonic motion from Db to II/V of C minor is analogous to several moments in Falling Grace, including the first 4 bars. I wrote about this recently in another post so it is top of mind.

Db major is not so distant to C minor when you think about it, but we tend to think of key centers separated by a half step as completely unrelated.

Re: the clip. Nice playing. To my ear the transition to Db major was a bit jarring - my ear wants to hear natural rather than altered material there. But that's a matter of taste.

[MikkoKarhula]

Great tune. It occurs to me the harmonic motion from Db to II/V of C minor is analogous to several moments in Falling Grace, including the first 4 bars. I wrote about this recently in another post so it is top of mind.

Db major is not so distant to C minor when you think about it, but we tend to think of key centers separated by a half step as completely unrelated.

Re: the clip. Nice playing. To my ear the transition to Db major was a bit jarring - my ear wants to hear natural rather than altered material there. But that's a matter of taste.

Thank you for the feedback! I could have made that key change more natural. I might thought that what I played kind of gave something new to the solo before it.

Cheers, Mikko

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[Reg]

yea that change is really very natural, and there are a bunch of ways to functionally connect, right. The relative Maj. of Cmin. is Ebmaj. and then parallel min. of Ebmaj. is Ebmin. which becomes the II-7 V7 of Db. That's pretty basic maj/min functional borrowing. But wait there's more.... LOL

I didn't read your post Running Beagle... I know you seem to have your functional concepts together... sorry if I'm repeating etc... I to bII obviously has many options for relationships.

I like your lines Mikko, and playing in general... Blue Bossa is great tune for actually opening up and taking a bunch of choruses.... how or where would you go with those ideas... do you develope that B or MM relationship and open up MM relationships with each chord ?