Today I concentrated my practice on superimposing the Major Triad based on the Flat Seven scale degree on Minor Seven and Half-Diminished Seven chords. This is a particularly interesting sound on the half-diminished and the Wayne Shorter Aebersold play-along provides many opportunities at a variety of tempi to work out these ideas.
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I’ve been trying to formulate concepts for balancing aspects of rhythmic simplicity/complexity with those of harmonic simplicity/complexity. At first blush it seemed there should be a rather straight-forward relationship between the two. You know, like “if the harmonic motion is very rapid (few pulses for each chord) then the rhythmic complexity needs to be simple.” […]
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Hi all – I’ve joined the mobile gang with my quartet and have an app for android that you can download for FREE. You can get my blog, see videos, see my performance schedule, get a sample of the new recording LectroCoustic (that will drop on May 21). Unfortunately, it’s only for android at this […]
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