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It’s one of two or three standard issue harmony textbooks in the states. Analyze chorales. Chromatic mediants. etc.
As sidebar, when I did ATTYA with Barry I was quite surprised that he fit a chord scale to every chord. He called them different things but it was pretty much, F Aeolian, Bb Dorian, Eb Mixo etc
Even if you are playing a strictly diatonic tune (of which there aren't very many) wouldn't you employ the parallel view at times? So Suppose a tune is strictly diatonic and you're soloing using only...
Kostka Payne's a new one on me?? Is it like Piston etc?
Also cue Christian to tell you that Tonal Harmony a la Kostka Payne is a post facto description of organic voiceleading that really has nothing to do with Roman numeral analysis etc
I used Kostka Payne in my tonal harmony classes in college and that book most certainly does not teach everything you need to know to understand harmony in a jazz context. Why would it? Chord...
So to set the scene. I can play pentatonics all over the neck (in any key); I know all of my 'big' arpeggio shapes (and again can play them all over the neck). What I'm struggling with is...
I had D'Addario 12s half rounds for a while on my main archtop and changed them after some weeks again. I was looking for a fatter, more mellow sound like flats but with a better separation of the...
I don't know if we 'need' it now or not. What I do know is that people use it so it's as well to know what they're talking about. That simple, really.
Your Warwick guitar has evolved over the years with various hardware changes. The Gibson P90 pickups, especially the overwound bridge pickup, enhance its tone. Reverting to the original bridge is on...
Those are descriptive sources of harmony where as the parallel view provides a more prescriptive view. One way is not objectively better than the other. Classical theory books help people to develop...
I agree in parts, it is true that in the classical world the notes are analyzed based on the tone and not parallel from each the chord. I know all this material and I have read it many times.I have...
I've owned my D'Aquisto (same as this one, a blonde) for about a year now and played many gigs with it, just this weekend a Bigband concert with only Ellington and Basie tunes and this guitar did an...
The Yamaha (SA30 from 1968) on the left is fully hollow , the ES-345 (1963) is mine since 1982. Red guitars are so cool .....
Learning to Solo over Jazz Changes [QUESTION]
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