Posts tagged composition
Posts tagged composition
Hour 3 - 4
I become nocturnal on tour. It’s 3:34 in the morning. I just wrapped up today’s practice session. It went by pretty fast! I made up a few 1 - 2 bar rhythms and jammed them out during the first hour. I find this is a good way to play new lines: if you limit yourself to a specific rhythm and try to make it sound good in the context of an improvised solo, unfamiliar phrases start to pop up.
I was inspired to do some writing. You’d think being in a hotel room in a medieval citadel in Transylvania might inspire a spooky composition, but instead, I put together these chord changes (to be played with a jazz ballad feel):
Bb9#11 I Ebmaj7 I Dmin7 I Eb6 I F6 I Abmaj7#11 I Gmin9 I Gmin9 I
The melody still needs to be refined. I’m going for a vibe with a similar spirit to Beatrice by Sam Rivers (played famously by Joe Henderson) and Infant Eyes by Wayne Shorter. These are two of my favourite jazz ballads. Both of these songs have very colourful, moody, beautiful chord changes.
And last but not least, I played through a jazz-blues in the key of F trying to incorporate the whole tone scale a lot: over the F7 going to the Bb7 and implying a C whole tone leading back to F. I think the whole tone scale sounds rad… and it’s a symmetrical scale, so it’s pretty easy to learn on guitar!
Good Night!
