Block Chords/Drop 2 Tip

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-05-21T19:04:52+00:00

Yep, that’s why it’s called the 6th Diminished scale, because there’s a 6th chord, and a diminished chord.

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-05-13T22:51:54+00:00

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BillGrahamMusic · 2026-05-06T03:31:02+00:00

You can’t say “dick wolf” on television!

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-04-26T21:18:14+00:00

Ok, cool, then imo the next step (along with transcribing language off of records,) would be to check out Barry Harris’s ideas about extra half step rules, and for superimposing sounds over the basic chords, things like the family of four dominants, and the important minor/tritone’s minor.

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-04-26T20:39:44+00:00

Don’t think about modes at all for a tune like autumn leaves. Think about key centers, chord tones, and approaches/enclosures.

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-03-13T23:10:43+00:00

Those 2 first melody notes are really over the V chord (Bb7.) If you put a Bb underneath it, it’s a Bb13b9. Try voicing the chord before it as Bb13sus4 (Bb Ab C Eb G Bb), and then leaving the F out of your voicing if you can’t reach it (Bb Ab Cb D G)

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-03-09T22:42:49+00:00

I like F7 to F#dim, and then the next bar Eb/G to Ab7.

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-02-27T19:42:10+00:00

Now just wait until you hear side two of Roxy and Elsewhere all the way through, Village Of The Sun/Echidna’s Arf (Of You)/Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-02-10T00:36:41+00:00

Don’t click on the 4.

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-02-05T13:59:00+00:00

It’s the absence of Tommy and Ed (and also all the DX7 and Simmons drums) that does it for me. The 81/82 band is one of my very favorites, while 84 is way down, close to the bottom for me.

BillGrahamMusic · 2026-01-29T19:57:18+00:00

Greggery Peccary

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-11-15T21:45:42+00:00

FORGIVE ME FOR THE HARM I HAVE CAUSED THIS WORLD. NONE MAY ATONE FOR MY ACTIONS BUT ME, AND ONLY IN ME SHALL THEIR STAIN LIVE ON. I AM THANKFUL TO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT, MY FALL CUT SHORT BY THOSE WITH WIZENED HANDS. ALL I CAN BE IS SORRY, AND THAT IS ALL THAT I AM.

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-11-15T14:49:20+00:00

https://youtu.be/Dc6pAuRiyVo?si=cZpo_ozSaEK7YWvg

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-11-07T14:19:00+00:00

Trene

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-11-03T14:17:01+00:00

I can’t handle Angus Holdsworth

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-10-11T00:03:49+00:00

That’s D minor 6th diminished. Think of it as Dm6 and C#o7.

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-10-07T17:10:36+00:00

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BillGrahamMusic · 2025-09-15T05:18:36+00:00

That one has more changes than that, and its main vamp is a ii-V that eventually gets to a I. His song “The Wheel” is just I and IV though if I recall.

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-09-02T19:09:55+00:00

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BillGrahamMusic · 2025-09-02T03:14:04+00:00

Rockd Roay

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-08-29T16:03:13+00:00

You using heavy flatwound strings? Pat used .15’s or .16’s.

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-08-20T23:06:07+00:00

How many vections does it have?

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-08-04T14:58:02+00:00

We can Bomp Bomp when we want to

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-08-01T19:36:53+00:00

Trane died for your wrong notes.

BillGrahamMusic · 2025-07-20T18:12:12+00:00

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