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 Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:30 am
In the band that I play in, we've separated it into four combos as well as a big band. Our director though, has given us the responsibility of deciding which combo pieces to play, and then he'll decide which ones that we would be 'capable' of playing. So our combo went up to him and showed him the pieces that we chose (Lazy Bird, All the Things You Are, Spain, Remember Rockefeller at Attica), and he declined all of them except for Spain because of the 2-5 chord changes. Then he went into a big speech with the entire band about how 2-5s are the harderst changes to solo over.
Does anyone agree? Disagree? Any suggestions for practicing them?
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:12 pm
That's a load of horsecrap. 2-5-1 chord progressions are nowhere near the hardest chord progression to play. It's where they are in the music, not what they are...Guh...
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Fashionable Conversationalist
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:50 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:25 pm
me too. the hardest chord changes are in Giant Steps mad , lol. lol right now my teachers have been working with me on many 2-5 pieces, such as Four, Scrapple from the Apple, Ceora, and many more. they are pretty simple and as long as you know what you're doing, they're more enjoyable than difficult.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:05 pm
I say if you can hear a solo to it in your head, then go for it. I hear a song and i envision myself soloing to it. If i can hear myself playing something that sounds good, i'll go for it. It doesn't matter what it is. Besides, if all else fails, theres always the blues scale!
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:03 am
Hari-Ito I say if you can hear a solo to it in your head, then go for it. I hear a song and i envision myself soloing to it. If i can hear myself playing something that sounds good, i'll go for it. It doesn't matter what it is. Besides, if all else fails, theres always the blues scale! yeah, that's true! imagination is a good way to play over 2-5 changes. i took like 5 or more licks from 2-5 (some being pretty bluesy) and i transposed them to some different scales. i thought i had learned them in the "most common" scales, such as C, D, G, E, A, and F minor (sometimes B minor), but then i ran into the bridge in Scrapple from the Apple! gonk xp
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