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Topic: Studio sketchbook - original tune - ideas? |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 13 Jun 2007 2:07 pm |
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Here's an original tune ... kind of Gypsy Jazz ... kind of swing ... I don't know what it is. I noticed that all my original tunes seemed to be vamp-like. I have very few melodies through chord progressions. It's acoustic guitar on the melody and steel on the solo (except for some pads and unision melody lines).
http://home.comcast.net/~aevolk/wsb/media/Subway.mp3
I took several passes but never got a steel solo that wasn't lame. Oh well. Hard to come upo with something that isn't chromatic or an arpeggio at the speed those 9th chords are chromatically moving. Here's the chord progression. What would you do with it?
(A)
D6/D6/D6/D6
F6/F6/D6/D6
(B)
E9/Eb9/D9/C#9
E9/Eb9/D9/C#9
(C)
D6/F6/Ab6/A7sus A7 |
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2007 7:25 pm
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I like the tune Andy. 
But to my ears it doesn't sound like a Gypsy tune.
It sounds more like a theme song from a 1960's TV show - a show set in southern California with convertibles and young shiny people with Pepsodent smiles. I hear a lot of hooks that could easily be used as a lead-in or fade-out from a scene.
Great tune!
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Craig Prior
From:
National City, California, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2007 9:20 pm
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A little Django, a little Les Paul, a little Joaquin Murphy... even a little Buddy Merril!!
I dug it!! |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 14 Jun 2007 7:38 am
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Andy, first off, always think melodically. Try singing phrases over the changes first before you play. When you're satisfied with the lines that you're singing, break them down.
The B section implies a III-VI-II-V movement in C, with Eb9 being a tritone sub for A7 and C#9 being a tritone sub for G7. Some chord scale ideas that you could use here would be:
E9--E mixolydian, or E Lydian Dominant (B melodic minor)
Eb9b5 (or A7#5)--Eb Lydian Dominant (Bb melodic minor), Eb half/whole diminished scale, whole tone scale starting on A
etc.
Create melodies using these scales as a guideline. Play it slo-o-o-o-wly, so you can hear it and get your ideas together.
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Gary Lynch
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Creston, California, USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2007 8:53 am
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| It reminds me of those two guys in the Corvette convertible heading down old Route 66 on their way to the Santa Monica Pier to see the Spade Cooley Band perform on Saturday nights. Good effort and full of uplifting positive moods. |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 14 Jun 2007 9:50 am
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Thanks for the kind words (and the imagery). It kind of remined me of old stock footage of people going into the NY subway.
Mike, as a duffer mired in mediocrity, I appreciate solid advice from a pro. I hear a lot more than I can play. On standard guitar, I fooled around with whole tone stuff over the progression. I'll check out these other scale options. |
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 14 Jun 2007 9:58 am
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Andy, if you can hear, you can sing it. It just gets the creative forces working. Then you can figure out how to play it.
The melodic minor scale and its modes have a nice sequence of whole tones. In E lydian dom. (B melodic minor), it's D E F# G# A# B C# D, of course, E being the tonic. I put the D first to illustrate the sequence of whole tones.
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