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Author: Ken Mills
Date: 2006-02-22 01:53
Clarinbass, The I IV I: Let us say that the I is C major. Let us say that you hear the chance to play the C major scale in a jam session. (You have to be able to jam if you want to be considered as socially adequate by people like me.) You should stick other scales in between the C major bookends as harmonic resolutions or it will sound flat. The IV is good but as a takeoff scale from the C, another scale must be used to return. Try The Gershwin resolution of Bb7 to C major (sixth bar of his rhythm changes). (Notation: compound minor equals cm so that F major is the same as D cm.) What you get is: CM Dcm Ccm CM. Your piano accompaniment is using just the white keys if we are in C. Sometimes the diatonic chords will go for a while, so there is a lot that we can do. All The Things You Are is five bars in Ab then a II V I in C. (We always use C as the example, huh.) At the 1995 ClarFest in Tempe Arizona, I heard Dr. Bill Smith play it on his electric clarinet. I love that tune. I have Bach's Chromatic Fantasia (for clarinet alone) to look at for that IV. OK? Ken
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