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Tag Archives: vamp
Mike Stern Chord Transcription: Like Someone in Love
Funny how when you get older, it is a lot easier to look back and pinpoint events that changed your life. I was performing with a big band in Japan, and picked up the Mike Stern CD, Standards and other … Continue reading
Posted in Head Arrangement, Transcriptions
Tagged chord solo, Ending, Mike Stern, transcription, vamp
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Common Tone Substitutions of the Harmonized Major Scale
Common tone substitution is a must have tool in your comping tool box. It is fairly straight forward and is easily incorporated, giving you exponentially more options of chord voicings to choose from. Every chord has other diatonic chords sharing … Continue reading
Posted in Chords
Tagged 251, Bill Frisell, Block chords, Chord Substitution, major scale, play-along, vamp
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Soloing with Block Chords Part 6: Major
Good music should reflect life! Life has it’s ups and downs, happy and sad, rain and sunshine, winter and summer …tension and release. The beauty of anything is so much more vivid when seen in contrast to ugly. If I … Continue reading
Posted in Block chords, Chords
Tagged Block chords, chord solo, Chord Voicings, vamp, Wes Montgomery
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Another exercise for developing rock-solid time
Developing a rock-solid, unshakable, punctilious, time feel is on the menu today (as is testing out my new thesaurus). This is an extension of a previous post: Feeling the beat: Test and improve your time feel now!. I developed this … Continue reading
Feeling the beat: Test and improve your time feel now!
A sense of time and the ability to play with good time are the most important aspect of musicianship. This sounds like a bold statement, but it is true. Right or Wrong notes are a matter of taste and exposure, … Continue reading
