I love this standard. The chords, the melody, its quite exotic sounding. Ive been wanting to learn this standard for ever. It was on my top 5 list, but I always put it off because I was under the impression it was too hard. To my suprise, its rather easy, well, lets say intermediate. It has some easy major descending chords in the beggining, then loads of 2-5-1's.
Ive been busy this week, I've only got 3 weeks of class left before exams, so everything at Uni is comming to a close and all assignments are due etc. so expect more delays in my learning, however, as long as I get something out each week, its still development. Also, I have one more big test before exams this comming Friday, as well as play rehearsals (I am a guitarist for a play at the drama department), so not that much learning. Maybe 1 standard. We will see.
I continued to practice my melodic minors, and Josh and I yet again had another Jam on Tuesday. The Monday night jams are back on (they have been gone for some while), so I may just jam there too. Also, I have been doing more transcriptions. So far I have only tabbed out 3 of my favourite guitarists i.e. Joe Pass, Grant Green, and now Wes Montgomery. I am transcriping his solo on "Satin Doll" from his Riverside recording collection. I have yet to finish the entire chorus worth of transcribing, but I will get there. I must be honest, I don't do nearly as much transcribing as I should. All the greats did loads of transcribing as they dont have all the material I do, so transcribing is the oldest and most reliable way to pick up that jazz language, so I am going to try my utmost best to transcribe a piece a week by various artists. Another problem I face is actually learning and being able to apply all that I transcripe. So I will try super hard to do that too.
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