Re: [Harp-L] practicing jamie ambersol

[Emile Damico <oatss_oatflakes@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's amazing how much Ambersol can help with playing.
You might want to try volume 21 for a little different work out.
I'm wondering if there's a volume that has the tritone substitution.

--- On Sat, 8/29/09, David & Jackie Naiditch <french10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: David & Jackie Naiditch <french10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] practicing jamie ambersol
To: "Emile Damico" <oatss_oatflakes@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 1:03 PM

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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