Graças a Deus, I found a moment to setup my equipement to record a new video.
A bossa nova titled "Invitation Note" by Renato Vasconcellos recorded on volume 124 of the Jamey Aebersold play-a-long series. This volume has the name "Brazilian Jazz" and includes some fine contemporary tunes and arrangements in styles like samba, bossa-nova, baião, afoxé, partido-alto and maracatu. The theme includes quotations of songs like "desafinado" and "garota de Ipanema" and is mainly contructed from some pentatonic scales (Db, Bb and B). More on this in the next blog.
I will transcibe this solo so you can play-a-long with me. The transcription will include an analysis of the musical phrases and will be available through this blog by the end of the week.
In an additional video that will be published within a couple of weeks, I'll also explain where the ideas come from (as far as I know ;-) ) and how to derive excersizes from these ideas as well as how to study these excersizes.
Hope this will inspire other harmonica players out there.
Abraços,
Wim Dijkgraaf
jazz harmonica & composition
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