Rope’n'Tackle and Visions
This coming Friday I would like to focus on improvising on my piece Visions.
As you will see from the lead sheet there a six four-bar sections, each
with a different scale. I would suggest having a look at each of these
scales separately (and if necessary, practise any unfamiliar ones). I
guess the harmonic major may be new to some of you, but I reckon it is
quite a friendly scale to improvise on once you get going. Last week we
did some work on the groove (and I mentioned about using certain
voicings for our guitarists). Ash has created a midi demo using
Band-in-a-Box and the groove although not quite the same, still gives a
good idea - it might be useful for practising soloing over. Also
this week, I said I would mention (briefly!) about 5-part block writing
- the type I used to create a kind of ‘big band’ sound on Julian’s composition Rope’n’
