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I toyed with that this evening. I kind of like how light the maj7 makes it sound, but I put a Dom 7 in there around bar 7-8.
It might be too noodly now.
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04-23-2024 11:21 PM
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^ I'm a fan of that spiky bluez.
I thought so! My lil $600 Yamaha CP-125 digital piano is a good instrument apparently. Better watch it or I'm gonna buy a vibraphone. I think I would do a good job on focusing on playing melody only. I don't want to play a wind instrument tho. Vibes have a nice tone, it's good for single note, and you get to whack the thing and get into it rhythmically.Last edited by Jimmy Smith; 04-24-2024 at 12:58 AM.
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You should find plenty of work with piano, organ and vibes under your belt. Good trio gigs.
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^ Thx. There's a flute player's posting I'm going to reply to.
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Go for it!
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Tomorrow’s the big day. Bars ~5-8
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Here’s m5-8 … the lick over the Bbm/Eb7 is maybe my favorite in the whole tune. I love it.
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Where I think I like it, right now. We'll see.
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Messed with it in a few different spots. This was the only one that was playable for me really, so I recorded it. Maybe next lick I'll post a longer video of my whole process of figuring out where to play it...but I'm not sure how much people want to hear me say 1,2,3,4 fuck. Ok. 1,2,3,4...
I like what you're doing with the upper octave, though I don't think my brain could retain two possibilities yet.
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Great study group. I appreciate all the discussions here around DL. Cool.
The fingering on m5 makes me always thinking about how to move on after the Bb (beat2) on the e-string.
Move to the right side, i.e. position 6 or to the left, position 3.
Position 6 has some closer fingerings.
Position 3 has the Bbm9 arpeggio on the (smarter sounding) strings 5-4-3.
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Here's my take on mm 5-8
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Nothing idiotic about that!
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A few observations on m5-8: I meant to say that the positions I chose rather than the fingerings are close to Jeff's. I'll often play in three-finger mode, especially on a blues but bop heads tend to be the exception.
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Learned it by reading bar 8, then 7…. It was pretty pleasant that way.
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So many wedding dances to that song.
Everybody clap your hands
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You can sweep pick the last line at the 6th fret, it's a GbM7 arpeggio (preceded by the notes Eb & F on the 5th string). I played the entire four bars in the 4th to 6th fret positions, shifting as you did would slow me down.
I revised my fingering for the entire tune, tablature is in post #24 in this thread. Started to try incorporating Frank Gambale's picking techniques but picking all up strokes when going to descending strings feels really strange to me and I'm not convinced it will be an improvement - we'll see.
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Originally Posted by bluenote61
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Originally Posted by bluenote61
Things like slurring and harmonic context are super important. In bop phrasing rhythm and harmony go hand in hand. which all sounds more abstract than it is. I'm starting to think of it as 'harmonic fingering'
ill try an demonstrate what i mean more concretely when i get a chance. but a good one is enclosures of chord tones
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