I have started a youtube channel as a way of documenting my musical journey (Theshoulders1). I am having lessons with Michael Rubin and these are helping me enormously - cheers Michael.
I am annotating the videos with scales, tab etc to help remind me of what I am learning. I have been working on introducing overbends into my playing and with this in mind filmed a video today. Having now annotated it i was wondering if it is useful to anyone else.....warning THIS IS NOT A HIGH CLASS TUTORIAL....and definately ignore the babble at the start
Any views on the playing would be greatly appreciated as i'm very aware that its naive stuff.
i'm very taken with the kind of jazz/swing thing you have going there. i'm much more a pucker player but i do tb more in recent years. you have once again pointed up the importance of learning and practicing scales. this is something a seat of the pants guy like me has never really worked at.
is not the blues scale and the minor scale the same with the flat 5 added to a blues scale.i always see 3rd pos. minor but 2nd pos. blues,so what is going on here,trying to explain in western harmony what is african modal [blues]...blues[minor] over major or minor chords is still blues[minor]...what is it.the chords of the song or what ?...
Last Edited by on Aug 19, 2011 6:07 AM
Some really neat ideas there Shoulders and nicely executed. Thanks for taking the time to tab out the scales for us etc.,
I liked the way you kind of let us into your practice session, warts and all. It highlights the challenge involved in trying out this stuff and work required in blending OB/OD's seemlessly into a riff which you managed to do well. I don't normally play this kind of stuff but I genuinely felt encouraged to grab a Bb harp and jam along with you.
Coleman, please excuse me if I have misunderstood you but regarding third position being minor, you can play any scale in any position. To my inexperienced mind it is just easier to play minor in third pousition so this has become the accepted norm.
Third position major scale is very usable, although I think the overbends are necessary to complete the scale.
I am not confident off the top of my head to answer your question regarding blues and minor scales although i think you are correct.
The backing track I am jamming along to is Cm7 Fm7 and both scales sound good.
I am using the YouTube channel as a place to keep a record of my playing. I think your point about scales and positions could lead to some good practice. I will look at running through various major and minor scales in different positions. it'll probably be very challenging to get them smooth. Ha Ha more work to do.
Cheers Greyowl, your views are much appreciated.
cheers for listening to the video. All feedback is appreciated
I forgot to mention, kudos to you also for playing these OB/OD's Tongue Blocked! How did you learn to do this??!!??
btw If you want to have a link that folk can click on to access your YouTube channel, just copy and paste the following code and place it at the end of your post. Alternatively go to your forum account and paste it into your online signature, then it will automatically appear on each of your posts.
If you would rather have a description other than MY YOUTUBE just replace that part of the code with your own description, 'The Shoulder1 Youtube' or whatever.
Thanks Greyowl, I hope the YouTube videos will be a record of my progress (no progress and I'll chase Michael Rubin for my money back!!) and i hope they might be useful to others. Annotations are definitely helping me secure what I know.
regards James ---------- youtube channel; Theshoulders1
