Featuring John Becker – keys/drums, Sally de Broux – vocal, Rick Flowers – drums/keys, Laurie Lang – bass 12, 6:30 – 9pm at Common Ground -OMJ wil jazz up some holiday tunes and play in various meters 3/4, 6/8, 5/4 and others. 11 – Laurie Lang 5-6PM MJJ Workshop Session
#ONE NOTE SAMBA CHORDS SOFTWARE#
You can use Transcribe! or similar software to adjust the key while you play along with recordings. That’s a good starting point.Īddendum: I listened to various recordings of this tune and most are not in Bb, however, that is supposedly the original key and the key the Real Book is in so we’ll stick with it. If you don’t have much time, at least learn the melody from the recording. I remember songs much better, my ear is improving, and I’m getting faster at it. Although this is the method preached by many pros, I fought against learning tunes this way for a long time – it is a lot of work and slow. There are additional layers but these are the initial steps. I’ll listen to it a bunch to make sure I have that sound in my ears. The b2 is called a Neopolitan chord and can sub for a 2 or 4 chord in a 2-5-1 or 4-5-1 progression, or it can go directly to 1 like it does here. He cycles to the b2 major which leads into the one chord. Relating a new tune to ones I already know helps me learn and remember them.
I will add this tune to that list in my mind. I recognize this as almost exactly the same as the bridge to Wave, Road Song, and Night of 1000 Eyes. The bridge starts on four with a 2-5 to b3, then a 2-5 to b2.Practicing ideas over that descending line will be important – it makes up more than half the song. The A section has a descending line 3 times (3 to b3 to 2 to b2), broken up by a 2-5 to four. We haven’t had many tunes with descending chromatic movements but they aren’t uncommon.Because I needed to write this article I cheated and went right to the lead sheet. After that I analyze the harmony and try to make sense of it and relate it to tunes I already know.Usually I’m wrong, but not always – the Real Book is known to have errors scattered throughout. After that I see how my work compares to the Real Book and listen to the recording closely in the spots where we disagree.Figure out if the chords are major, minor, or what – sounding the 3rd against the recording helps.You can also rig up a foot pedal to start and stop the music so your hands are free. It lets you loop difficult parts and EQ to hear mainly the bass. Listen to the bass and see if I can figure out the root movement.The melody is basic so it shouldn’t be hard. Start with the most famous version (Gets/Byrd) version and memorize the melody.My method for learning a tune takes time but helps me remember it much better. You may find some benefit in seeing how I plan to learn it. I recommend an image that has #331 in the top right corner and make sure it’s in your key. Lots of other images show up and some may be right but I didn’t have time to check. I googled images and it was the 1st one on the page. The featured tune is “One Note Samba.” One jammer told me he was having a hard time finding a fakebook version. Our next jam is March 15th and we’ll be joined by Eric Koppa on sax and the Rand Moore Trio: Paul Muench – piano, John Schaffer – bass, and Rand – drums. Another jam-packed jazz jam, a record 23 jammers, a large audience, and tons of fun.
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