George Benson/Charlie Parker - diminished approach to playing over Maj7 chords

[jzucker]

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This is a quick lesson/riff showing you a charlie parker harmonic example of playing Ebdim7 over an Ebmaj7 chord but played in the style of George Benson's approach to the fingerboard including his patented slide technique.


You can use this riff as-is as a candenza or extract pieces of it to use as part of your own library and catalog of riffs.


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[CliffR]

Hey Jack - this sounds great, but I'm wondering if you could point us to a particular solo that Parker played that uses this idea?

[jzucker]

Hey Jack - this sounds great, but I'm wondering if you could point us to a particular solo that Parker played that uses this idea?

I took it from one of his rhythm changes solos but I spent 20 minutes looking through the omni book this morning and couldn't find it! Sorry!

[CliffR]

No worries - I look forward to learning from your video - many thanks !