Great lesson! I'm a guitar player so a lot of these arpeggios are very difficult or impossible to play on my instrument but the concept is still exactly the same! Knowing these little chord progressions and little twists in the progression is the real secret sauce I think. A bass player many years ago when I was slogging though blues jams and songs gave me some amazing advice he told me "you don't have to play everything, dont fight the chords man". I Didn't understand at first but then the more you listen to songs in blues styles, you realize that great blues players don't play every arpeggio, every scale, every note over every specific chord. You absolutely should learn how to do that and practice that stuff so no chord will gives you issues, but in actual performance and improvising The chords should be your guide and friend in helping you know what you can do to sound good and where things that did work a few bars earlier might not work now or so well.
Great lesson! I'm a guitar player so a lot of these arpeggios are very difficult or impossible to play on my instrument but the concept is still exactly the same! Knowing these little chord progressions and little twists in the progression is the real secret sauce I think. A bass player many years ago when I was slogging though blues jams and songs gave me some amazing advice he told me "you don't have to play everything, dont fight the chords man". I Didn't understand at first but then the more you listen to songs in blues styles, you realize that great blues players don't play every arpeggio, every scale, every note over every specific chord. You absolutely should learn how to do that and practice that stuff so no chord will gives you issues, but in actual performance and improvising The chords should be your guide and friend in helping you know what you can do to sound good and where things that did work a few bars earlier might not work now or so well.
As guitarists, much of our traditional finger picking predates what Glass picked up and wrote large!
Wow. Wise words.
What fun! Now do it with rhythm changes!
Great idea
What a fun lesson! Also, this is a great lesson in how placing some constraints can boost creativity. Thank you!
Thanks
lol now we're creating real Americana!