Ceora

Nice job on this. We missed you Tyler, and hope you are feeling better. The guitar chords in the intro had a few little mistakes, no big deal. Just remember to vamp on the ii V I until the head begins on cue from Christian. There were a few obvious melody blunders in the head. Again, no big deal, I'm sure you know what you did, and I've heard you play this melody clean before. The background parts (Curran's part) need a little cleaning up too. I'll post a MIDI version of the arrangement soon so you can hear a computer version of how it's supposed to go. During the solos, Make sure the drum break occurs in the right place. I appreciate the fact that you went with it (jump off the cliff) and played with conviction, but you were a measure early. Very nice build in energy in the trumpet solo towards the end. Some of the notes were incorrect, meaning that they didn't fit with the chords but we'll fix that later. the energy was remarkable. For Curran's solo, I'd like to have you drill your guide tone line at home with the practice track a few dozen times. Really focus on smooth voice leading and let you ear be your guide. In the guitar solo, I'd like to hear more space between ideas. let the beauty of the chord progression come through. You played very well. Think more about your phrasing. Listen to the original recording for inspiration (Google Lee Morgan, Cornbread, Ceora) I mentioned in class the F7+9 chord and the use of the augmented arpeggio over it. Just to clarify, here's the deal: Any dominant chord with that + sign after it, or a dominant chord that uses a bunch of altered tones is considered an altered dominant chord. They are unstable and can take a variety of tensions. In this case, we're playing with the 5th degree by raising it up a half step (augmented) so the arpeggio is F,A,C#. Try resolving this to Bbmin7 (the next chord in the tune). The F is a common tone, the A can go to Bb(the root) and the C# can resolve to D (the 5th of Bbmin7). Lee Morgan uses this in his solo, and Dom used it in this recording.

All Blues

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Afternoon in Paris

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Ceora

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Recordame

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Blue Train

Here's the recording of All Blues. Leave your comments!