Since the end of the last year, me and my friend just started to play at a local art studio almost every Sunday afternoon. It’s good to have such a place to play and enjoy coffee. And I uploaded several songs we played last Sunday. Hope to enjoy. Oleo is a challenging tune for us. …
Each chord has its own chord scale. Looking it from the other way, a chord scale has 7 diatonic chords of its own. That means chord and chord scale has 1 to n relation ships Guitar gives varieties of positions for one scale. Because of this, scale positions of one scales can be slightly modified …
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No need to switch scales just from the start of the new chord or bar. Here’s an example: Switching to the next altered scale from 4th beat of C-7. I bought a book which is about how to play Jazz kind. It said that soloing is like taking out a fresh lobster from the water …
Playing according to the chords, you have to deal with 2-5 almost all the time. How comfortably you can go along with those 2-5’s decides you can relax or tense at any moment of the performance. Playing should be true joy. There seem to be tons of combinations to connect 2 and 5. But …
Connecting chord scales helps you understanding them deeper. Read More »
Gb melodic minor can be used when soloing over dominant 7th. Emphasizing the 3rd and 7th gives a great hint about chord progression. That’s going to help showing where you play to other band members. I’m going to practice those several melodic minor lines for a while with several tunes. To help navigate to …
During the course of soloing, I sometimes get to recall some kind of motifs or rhythmic pattens which I’ve once listened to on the famous player’s tunes. To stir up the final part of my solo, I come to rely on kind of famous ones. Before dive into this topic, I guess I’m always ignoring …
I’ve been a jazz enthusiast for a couple of decades. Now I’ve been obsessed with the geometry of guitar fretboard. It’s not so obvious for me to figure out the entire system of the fretboard. So I decided to try to figure out how the system should be extended as one picture, especially chords spread …
I uploaded a new video on my YouTube channel. It’s a jazz standard song called ‘Everything happens to me’. As you can see the picture, my recording settings consist of ukulele, microphone, audio interface and MacBook Pro. Before the recording, I prepared my arrangement on a TAB sheet, and then practiced for a while. I …
Currently I have 2 Ukuleles. The first one I’m going to show you is Applause Ukulele. I bought this about 15 to 20 years ago, but I don’t quite remember exactly when I bought it. As you can see from the side, it has volume and tone knobs on its body. It’s electric acoustic ukulele. …
I woke up at 5:30, and had a short Yoga exercise and a walk. After finishing the AM work, I walked to Yachiyo Midorigaoka AEON for a lunch. I decided to have curry at Rasoi, which severs Indian curry. I choose C set which includes 2 curries, salad, naan, rice and kabab. Curries are Keema …