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Unusually productive day, despite shakey beginnings. My first class starts at 11.05. I woke up at 11.10. Was in class by 11.13. Struggled to stay awake during said class, even though I really enjoy it alot. Back to my room, practiced for an hour and a half before setting off for piano lesson. Note on the door saying we'd have to reschedule. Grr. Went with Anna and her roommate Kristen to the music store, bought more staff paper. Back to my room, wrote a ballad, "A Crate Full Of Tommorow," before cooking steaks for the fellas. Jammed for about an hour. Room. Read. Just wrote an uptempo thing, somewhere inbetween Wayne Shorter and Charles Mingus, "Cancellation," which is very much in the spirit of bop, but harmonically and melodically more modern, i.e., the bridge is a modern variation on the Kansas City bridge, which is || D7 | D7 | G7 | G7 | C7 | C7 | F7 | F7 ||. I used similar root motion, and a similar homogenity of the chord qualities, but whereas the K.C. bridge moves up a perfect fourth, and then repeats itself down a whole step, mine moves up a tritone, and then repeats itself down a half step, also employing minor 7th chords, rather than dominant 7ths || Em7 | Em7 | Bbm7 | Bbm7 | Ebm7 | Ebm7 | Am7 | Am7 ||, which can yield some very interesting results when you're playing over it, because the chord/scales for minor 7th chords a tritone apart contain only 2 common tones. Of course its a standard 32 bar AABA tune, with a solo break at the end of it, so you really can use alot of your bop vocabulary, it just forces you to think a bit more.
Think I'm gonna go read now, and hope that the green in front of my dorm isn't invaded by zombies again tonight.
-Bill
Think I'm gonna go read now, and hope that the green in front of my dorm isn't invaded by zombies again tonight.
-Bill