I love this tune. I used to accompany a friend on clarinet on it before he passed away. The Duke Robillard version that the OP links to is really nice.
Here’s my attempt on solo guitar. I’ve been doing a lot more gardening than practicing lately, so it’s rough. I’ll try to work on finger mechanics and clean it up.
It's been awhile since i last logged in here, but there's a strange synchronicity in that i was just playing
'If I Had You' a couple of days ago, and here it is as this month's standard...
and so, off to the shed i will head, since there are still a few days left in the month!!!
In any case, here's a quick 'baseline' recording, playing the melody and changes from memory, and
without the benefit of my 2nd cup of am coffee:
Hopefully it will get a little better...
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ok..the scale/mode thing can be very confusing when your just learning jazz basics.
Strong suggestion:..dont worry about modes for now..
Learn the chords in the major scale and how they work...
I'd suggest getting a backing track. IRealPro is very useful. Then try it every which way and figure out which notes you like.
As far as theory goes, the tune starts in Cm. Like a minor blues, it...
So a "songwriter" is someone that write lyrics, like Homer the ancient Greek? or Lil' Wayne the rapper perhaps?
-Where's the subsection for poetry? Composition is about music, no?
We've got a...
You want to know and be able to use both. The diatonic notes to the key center; and what scales you can use over a chord that would fit the chord and context, but would contain outside notes from...
Both. Shell voicings are most commonly played on the E D and G strings, or the A D and G. R73, and R37 respectively. When you get to a voicing with the root on the A string, you can swap out the root...
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F Dorian and C Aeolian contain the same notes. Wherever you read to do that over the tune (or any other) go ahead and close the tab.
A mode also can start on any note, it’s about...
Sorry, I'm trying to learn to play jazz. I'm pretty weak on theory.
So in Blue Bossa, the first chord is Cm7 then Fm7. I should play Aeolian (the sixth mode of Eb and the first mode of Cm) over...
The Epiphone 1961 RI Casino is a great guitar, if you can score one. It was a limited run, and very much different from the run-of-the-mill Casinos of today. Unless you want to spring for the...
In putting together a group, the first thing I think about is that the drummer and bassist have to love each other.
Hopefully, the drummer hasn't departed because of anything the bassist did. If...
Looking for a "jazz box"
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