Very Early – Improv on Bill Evans’ Tune

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    • June 16, 2009 at 9:42 pm
    Frank
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    Incredible Tom! Just incredible. How long did it take you to work out this tune? If I can learn to play like that I can die happy. I’m working on your legato and playing outside lessons at the moment. Any other recommendations? I’ve just got to get fusion down!

    Frank

    • June 16, 2009 at 10:03 pm
    Tom Quayle
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    Hey Frank! You’re too kind, thank you so much. Comments like yours make all the hard work worth while. I can’t thank you enough!

    As far as the tune goes I’ve been playing it since I was doing my jazz degree so since 2001. I just love the changes and melody – I could never figure out how the harmony worked for years but loved playing over it anyway. I’m slowly getting better at it but it really requires you to be very comfortable on the fretboard as every bar is based on a different scale pretty much. Like an extended version of Giant Steps but more beautiful.

    I just played the melody then the rest was all improvised and then played the melody again at the end, as is standard jazz approach.

    For fusion I have many more lessons coming but definitely try the hemiolas tutorial and the melodic minor stuff.

    Here’s the links:

    Hemiolas:- https://www.infiniteguitar.com/guitar-lesson-tutorial.php?tutorial=155

    Melodic Minor Usage:- https://www.infiniteguitar.com/guitar-lesson-tutorial.php?tutorial=181

    Hope that helps!

    Cheers,
    Tom

    • June 16, 2009 at 10:35 pm
    georgebig2
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    Your technique and your ability playing thru fast chord changes is killer combination!!!

    • June 16, 2009 at 11:53 pm
    billmeedog
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    @Frank 7756 wrote:

    Incredible Tom! Just incredible. How long did it take you to work out this tune? If I can learn to play like that I can die happy. I’m working on your legato and playing outside lessons at the moment. Any other recommendations? I’ve just got to get fusion down!

    Frank

    Hey Frank, šŸ™‚

    Like Tom Quayle recommended, his Melodic Minor Tutorial is KILLER! Loaded with great explanations and demonstrations of it’s use in the fusion context! I’m still just trying to get used to the fingerings, so I haven’t applied much of it yet, but I’m getting closer! (One problem I’m having is because I like to use Dorian Mode a lot, every time I start jamming out and trying to improvise with the Meldic Minor tonality, I screw-up (on “auto-pilot!) and play the damn flat-7th instead of the natural-7th!!! ARRRGGGHH!!! šŸ˜” The other problem I have with associating the Melodic Minor to Dorian is that I use a lot of “relative-fingerings” to get around in Dorian. IE: Like if in “A”-Dorian, I’ll just rip-through anything that’s relative to “G”-Major! Therefore every modal-fingering that I use relative to the key-of-“G,” (like “G-Ionian”, “B-Phrygian”, “D-Mixolydian”, etc.) needs to be modified to fit “A”-Melodic Minor – specifically, that damn “G#-NOTE!”) šŸ™ Anyways, therein lies the root of MY INCOMPETANCE!!! šŸ˜® :confused: (LOL!) OK, enough about my flaws! :rolleyes: šŸ˜‰

    So dig into Tom’s Melodic Minor Tutorial. It’s AWESOME! šŸ˜‰ šŸ˜Ž

    ~Bill Meehan~ šŸ˜€

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