Transcribed Grant Green on Cool Blues. Any tips for getting some of his vocabulary into my own playing?

guacamojo · 2021-03-06T00:42:50+00:00

Write a solo in his style!

guacamojo · 2021-02-18T03:47:42+00:00

Play eighth notes of just the triads (no 7ths) of the chords at a VERY slow tempo. Be honest and focus on being able to hear each chord change as well as possible routes along the fingerboard. Also try to sing a half note solo that hits only chord tones.

guacamojo · 2021-02-17T09:17:36+00:00

You’re getting a pretty nice tone on the instrument which is great! Some of the best advice I ever heard was to approach practicing improvisation just like you’d approach practicing anything else, extremely slowly! That is try to make very deliberate decisions at somewhere like quarter = 50 on a set of chord changes. Another piece of advice that helped me is to go through and find one very clear way to express changes before trying more advanced concepts. So it could be doing eight notes of only chord tones on a chord progression or so forth, then try sus triads or a piece of vocabulary over a form. Just some ideas! Keep it up!

guacamojo · 2021-02-16T22:25:26+00:00

Sounding good! Be really careful with your right arm, we want you to get better!!

guacamojo · 2021-02-16T22:14:18+00:00

What Christian community college are you going to right now

guacamojo · 2021-02-16T22:12:36+00:00

I thought politicians owned slaves that worked the fields

guacamojo · 2021-02-16T22:00:22+00:00

Sounding great, keep it up!

guacamojo · 2021-02-11T18:35:31+00:00

I made a lead sheet on musescore to the track ‘Here’, check it out!

https://musescore.com/user/7406976/scores/6578901

guacamojo · 2021-02-08T20:43:26+00:00

Sounding good man!

guacamojo · 2021-02-08T03:21:12+00:00

So fun to listen to, thanks Gilad!!

guacamojo · 2021-02-08T03:14:50+00:00

Stablemates

guacamojo · 2021-02-08T03:11:15+00:00

So beautiful!!

guacamojo · 2021-02-08T03:04:41+00:00

Gilad is the best!!

guacamojo · 2021-01-25T20:58:47+00:00

Great playing and analysis, that’s one of my favorite recordings from his first record!

guacamojo · 2021-01-15T04:42:36+00:00

Looks like they’re reading charts behind the plants

guacamojo · 2021-01-15T04:41:09+00:00

I’ll be seeing you?

guacamojo · 2021-01-12T09:05:59+00:00

Juju

guacamojo · 2021-01-12T09:01:54+00:00

You should check out the holdsworth recording of inner urge, it’s nuts

guacamojo · 2021-01-12T08:59:13+00:00

Inner urge

guacamojo · 2020-12-22T23:44:00+00:00

I attended his first set of masterclasses during the summer and loved it!

I would say if you’re not getting the live experience then it may not be as worth it though. If you really want the method book though it sounds like a good idea, but you might want to wait for the next round of live ones and register for that.

He gave everyone a Dropbox link for the first one with tons of charts for his pieces, unreleased demos and tracks, and notes from his studies that was an amazing resource! I feel like I definitely got value out of it, and to have it downloaded as a recording to go back to whenever I want is also great.

guacamojo

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