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xtp · Post by **xtp** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:03 am

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Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:04 pm

Unfortunately, both your download links don't seem to work.

xtp · Post by **xtp** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:50 am

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:28 am

Uh - weird stuff you have there. To me, intuitively it sounds like some A minor thing, treated with a lot of chromaticism. There's some sort of altered E7 going on in the chords you play, but the "general" feel to me is A min (and the E7 wouldn't conflict with that either).

Adaerus · Post by **Adaerus** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:16 am

As Sasha said, it is an A minor with lots of chromatisms. In fact it is a wierd cromatic pentatonic A minor (no D or F). If the bass had C# would have been an A major. I'd be curious to see how it would sound. If it conflicts with the melody too much then a G# in some places instead of G should fix them. Orthographically, I'd replace Ab with G# and Eb with D#. G# and D# are much closer to A minor than an Ab or Eb respectively.
There's also a discrepancy between the writing and the playing in the bass. The first three notes in the bass are not triplets only the first two. The way it sounds the first note is quarter note and the second is an eigth note with the bracketed "3" between them. The third note is a full quater note.

xtp · Post by **xtp** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:34 am

I had 'a' in mind for the key, but i have to admit i was thinkin major. A minor puts a whole new perspective on things, I'll look at that, cheers. Oh the E7b5 is an inversion with the b5 as the bass note.

I play a lot of improvised stuff like that when I am not playing folk music. I find the impro jazz stuff good for pushing my playing into places i would not otherwise go.

When I was in my late '20s i used to jam with a guy who used to put his shapes to my playing, but he played it all with chords, he constantly amazed me with his sound craft, I used to try to come up with similar chord stuff that reflected my melodies/riffs but my chordal work sadly was always dull and still is.

It is a shame i only have memories of those sessions it would be nice to have a few tapes. Of course the only downside to impro playin is 'when you are bad', you can be really bad, and a month of wednesdays of really disjointed, dischordant badly executed playing can almost cure you of improvisation... well maybe not.

cheers again for the listen and comments guys.

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