Re: [Harp-L] practicing jamie ambersol

[David & Jackie Naiditch <french10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Emile,

I've been practicing Ambersol's II-V-I changes (forget what volume)  
in every key on the C chromatic.  When I get bored with these  
exercises, I work on other material, but I keep coming back, each  
time gaining a deeper appreciation of how important these exercises  
are in developing a jazz "vocabulary."  These exercises have also  
helped spice up my blues, country swing, and progressive bluegrass  
playing.

--David Naiditch


On Aug 29, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Emile Damico wrote:

> I know all of you jazz  guys are practicing intensely all of the time.
> I like to use vol. 21 of Ambersol. I've just started going back to  
> vol.3 that
> has the II  V changes. One part uses the Dim-whole tone scale.
> No big deal take a major scale flat the third start on the 7th degree.
> This  is made trom the melodic minor ascending. In this case C  
> melodic minor.
> e.g. BCDEbFGAB
>
> So is anybody else using these studies. Will Gallison uses them also.
> If so what volumes.
>
> Diggs
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