Re: [Harp-L] Low Wattage Jazz at SPAH

[Emile Damico <oatss_oatflakes@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's an Italian pasta dish with fava beans and red peppers and a marinara sauce.

My suggestion is first learn at least all of your majors scales and how the modes relate to them.
After that the chords in the major scales and play their arpeggios. Cmaj7 Dmin7 Emin7 Fmaj7 G7 Amin7 Bmin7b5.
Also, this comes in handy when you try to analyze tonal areas in tunes for improvisation.
Then next I would look at the IImin7 V7 changes in all keys. 
Jaimie Aebersold has great backing tracks for this. I would also try "easier" jazz tunes to get the feel for improvisation.


I use Vol.21 of Aebersold to stay in shape. I don't think of my self as a  jazz musician, I feel I am more of
an improvisational player. 

Emile





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 From: Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Michael Rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: Harp L Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Low Wattage Jazz at SPAH
 

What, pray tell, are arpeggios?
smo-joe


On Sep 5, 2013, at 10:31 PM, Michael Rubin wrote:

> I spent a couple of years arpeggiating rhythm changes in all 12 keys of
> both harps.  It taught me a lot.  For the diatonic, I suggest learning
> where the root notes of the chords are.
> Michael Rubin
> Michaelrubinharmonica.com
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:42 PM, David Fairweather <dmf273@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Rather than search for "easy" jazz tunes.   I'd suggest that anyone
>> desiring to play jazz learn the basic structures:
>> 
>> 1) The Blues
>> 2)  Rhythm Changes (I Got Rhythm)  or "AABA" changes.
>> 
>> Even if all you can do is play the melody to "I Got Rhythm",  at least
>> you'll be on the right path and pointed in the right direction towards a
>> whole slew of classic jazz tunes based on those same chords:  "Christopher
>> Columbus", "Cottontail",  "Anthropology",  "Salt Peanuts",  and dozens
>> more.
>> 
>> Any diatonic players have any tips for playing Rhythm Changes on a short
>> harp?   How about harp switching at the bridge?
>>