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Post by jack1982 on Oct 6, 2019 5:04:57 GMT -6
Another week of putzing around for me. Was working on "Diary of a Madman" but now I got into "Fantasy" by Aldo Nova, an old favorite from my high school days. The solo seems like it should be do-able, it has some fast parts (and those damned bends) but it's fairly standard licks in box 1 of the G pentatonic minor scale, both on the 3rd fret and 15th. So I'll work on that until I get interested in something else lol.
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Post by bluesbruce on Oct 6, 2019 5:56:39 GMT -6
My only report is that I'm back from vacation. Picked up a guitar yesterday for the first time in over two weeks. Hope to get back into some kind of routine!
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Post by cunningr on Oct 6, 2019 7:02:29 GMT -6
Jack your killing me taking me on a memory lane trip! Lol
I am still working on same Joe Bonamassa tune, not up to speed figured out issue with timing on the mp3 i posted was counting straight time instead of a shuffle. So been working on that, spent time make a loop using trio plus and playing along with that.
Went to a Blues Festival yesterday heard some very good bands.
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Post by Phil on Oct 6, 2019 8:58:57 GMT -6
Still pluggin' away working on Jazz standards and getting together with another guitarist about once a week. I had kind of a breakthrough this week. Not technique related. It was music related. My song of the month is "Misty" I was working on the melody the day before we got together to play. The other guy asked me if I knew the chords to "Misty." I said, "No, but what's the 1st chord?". "Ebmaj7," he answered. So I told him to play the melody. I just wanted to hear that chord against the melody. Well, much to my surprise, my fingers just went to the next 3 chords without any concious effort on my part. Then I got stuck. We both stopped and looked at each other with "WTF just happened?" looks on our faces. He then told me the rest of the chords by saying, "Now play a backdoor ii-V to the one chord, then a I-vi-ii-V and a iii-vi-ii-V turnaround. Then he taught me the chords to the bridge. We had a basic version of the song down in about 20 minutes without opening "The Real Book." This may not seem like a big deal, but it is to me. It normally takes me a week or more to memorize the chords and melody of a simple song. Apparently, learning the chords to various standards and playing the progressions from the Mickey Baker book over and over is working it's way into my thick head. All of the Jazz guitarists I respect say the same thing: Learn lots of songs. Everything you need to know is in the songs themselves. You'll begin to see the same patterns occur from song to song. I guess they know what they're talking about.
Anyway, it was a good week.
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Post by cunningr on Oct 6, 2019 12:43:54 GMT -6
Still pluggin' away working on Jazz standards and getting together with another guitarist about once a week. I had kind of a breakthrough this week. Not technique related. It was music related. My song of the month is "Misty" I was working on the melody the day before we got together to play. The other guy asked me if I knew the chords to "Misty." I said, "No, but what's the 1st chord?". "Ebmaj7," he answered. So I told him to play the melody. I just wanted to hear that chord against the melody. Well, much to my surprise, my fingers just went to the next 3 chords without any concious effort on my part. Then I got stuck. We both stopped and looked at each other with "WTF just happened?" looks on our faces. He then told me the rest of the chords by saying, "Now play a backdoor ii-V to the one chord, then a I-vi-ii-V and a iii-vi-ii-V turnaround. Then he taught me the chords to the bridge. We had a basic version of the song down in about 20 minutes without opening "The Real Book." This may not seem like a big deal, but it is to me. It normally takes me a week or more to memorize the chords and melody of a simple song. Apparently, learning the chords to various standards and playing the progressions from the Mickey Baker book over and over is working it's way into my thick head. All of the Jazz guitarists I respect say the same thing: Learn lots of songs. Everything you need to know is in the songs themselves. You'll begin to see the same patterns occur from song to song. I guess they know what they're talking about.
Anyway, it was a good week.
This a concept my instructor is drilling into me, intervals. Lol. Now you can move it to any key easily. |
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