Infinite Blues Loop

 Composed this on 28 March 2023 and uploaded as a short today:

I now have 104 subscribers up from 96 from this short. 

This means that I am now in the next tier of YouTubers.....

I am in the top 28 million from a group of 114 million . I am thus in the top 25% of YouTube channels.

Spain by Chick Corea Backing Track

Did a Spain backing track for practicing jazz chords and trio style improvisation:  

Incidentally I just bought Harmony with Lego Bricks and Insights in Jazz which is a system for memorisation and the playing in all keys. I just played all this in Eb using this system which I have slightly adapted.

[Hover 1] [Hover vii] *half nelson [overrun] *sidewinder [m cadence] 

If you look at the last 16 bars of Spain you can see it is roughly the same progression as Autumn Leaves but transposed up a major third! Click the image to see it better.

Autumn Leaves

 I did a version of Autumn Leaves a while ago:

I had trouble converting into YouTube short format due to it being 1:03 and the short format only goes up to 60 seconds maximum. 

On Clipchamp I noticed an option to speed up the video so I selected 1.1% and then this took the length of the video to 58 seconds and kept the pitch the same although I think there is a difference in sound quality but it is a fair trade off rather than rerecording.

Also I have uploaded a subscribe "watermark" to enable people watching my videos to subscribe easier. It only took a few minutes to do this via the YouTube studio.

Giant Steps backing Track

 Going to start a playlist with backing tracks, here is the first one for Giant Steps at 150 bpm

The overall concept is to have a  jazz standards on YouTube  showing the chords, how to solo and then a backing track. No tunes will be shown as that is a copyright problem! I may tab out the tunes and sell them with copyright via sheet music plus.

Memorise Giant Steps using symmetry

 

If you have ever wondered about this tune I have discovered an easy way of memorising the chords using a symmetrical method.

The tune uses three keys a major third apart.

B G and Eb major

I call the first 5 chords "symmetry x"

they are B [D7] G and [Bb7] Eb

you then move this all down a major third using two connecting chords.

There then follows several 251's which I have called "symmetry y" and two connecting chords take you back to the beginning of this 16 bar tune.