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Putting Together Some Pieces
Or maybe it should be “putting some pieces together”? We’ve been talking about contrapuntal playing for a while. We’ve been doing exercises, and exercises, and more exercises. (There will be more of those!) Yesterday we worked out some ii-7 V7 … Continue reading
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Multi Line ii-7 V7 I’s
Let’s take this concept of two voice playing and create some simple ii V I’s. For our two voices let’s use a ratio 2:1 or two notes in one voice for every one note in the other. This gives us one … Continue reading
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Multi-Line Exercise part 4
Hey there! In part 3 of this series we introduced the idea of playing eighth notes against half notes. In the spirit of keeping it simple, we played a simple four ascending pattern against the slower half notes. When the half … Continue reading
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Multi-Line Exercise part 3
Last week we began working on some exercises to develop line independence as a way to work into contrapuntal playing. Hopefully you have been practicing those exercises because today we will be picking up where those left off. So far we’ve worked on … Continue reading
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Mulit-Line exercise part 2
Hello again! Here’s the first two variations of yesterday’s exercise. All we’re doing is putting two notes against one. In other words if the lower voice is playing half notes the upper voice is will be playing quarter notes. Here’s … Continue reading
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Multi-Line Exercise
One thing that I’ve always been interested in is playing contrapuntal ideas on the guitar. There are a handful of great books out there on the topic. Jimmy Wyble’s book Art of Two-Line Improvisation is a great one as well as … Continue reading
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…and one more just for good measure
Let’s finish up with this rhythm we’ve been working with. Yesterday we expressed the original rhythmic cell in 3 as a repeated melodic pattern over a bass line in 4/4. Today we will do the same thing but displacing our … Continue reading
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Polymeter of the day/week…continued
Hey Hey Hey–It’s Monday-ay!! I’m just kidding…nobody ever says that! Let’s jump right back into what’s quickly becoming the polymeter of the week. So you’ve worked out all the counting. You’ve practiced your scales with this rhythm, but maybe it … Continue reading
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Triad Pairs/Hexatonic Scales Introduction
Triad Pairs are a common tool amongst both modern jazz players and composers of the early 20th century. The idea is self-explanatory. Put simply they are two triads paired together that do not share a common tone. For example check out these … Continue reading
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