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How much transcribing/copping things from recordings have you done? How much jazz do you listen to? Have you ever tried composing a solo over a jazz tune?
I don't know, I don't do that. I go by the chord, then what scale you want to use is secondary. I guess it could be helpful in describing a tonality because there's a complete amount of notes.
The last one I tried (several years ago) had a noticeably slim neck. I didn't measure it at the time, I remember noticing how narrow the string spacing felt. Some online specs say they have 1-9/16"...
There are actually three ways to view a functional tune, not two. Parallel, derivative and the key signature view. In the third case (I made up the name but it intuitively exists), you view the...
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 develop a...
Learning to Solo over Jazz Changes [QUESTION]
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