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Uploaded by on Oct 30, 2008

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  • 0:28 WOO! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! lol ^^

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  • Say man great video, it took me 10-15 min tops to get. now that piano solo part "aaaany" help?

    again great video

    thx for putting out the info dude.

  • THANK NICE JOB BTW.

  • @danieljones013 use chords mostly in root position, at least at first.. obviously, there's no bass player , so you have identify the root of the chord yourself. learn some stride and ragtime techniques. then you can bounce from the tonic note to 1st and 3rd inversion chords for a more modern sound.you can also walk the bass, and stab at the chords between your soloing, and arpeggiate the chords.

  • is this the gospel version LOL Lord Ill take small steps while you take the GIANT STEPS

  • @gospelkeys07 Even tho i dnt have years of expirience I wanna take some giant steps...lol pun

  • @gospelkeys07 I agree however, being a jazz musician myself soloing over ii-v's is too easy. The latter half of this song is all ii-V's. The beginning as you have mentioned has D7- gmaj - Bb7- Ebmaj which are ii-V's. I only have trouble with the first two chords. soloing over the song is quite easy. But, the Bmaj to G kills all the sharps but the F#. And becuase that chord goes by so fast... I see your point but the harmony is no prob. Just that one key change from B to G

  • @gospelkeys07 does the g or c whole tone scale work over the b to g change? The rest of the song is easy becuase of the ii-Vs but the B and the g only share the two aforemencioned tones, making the scalar jump interesting...lol to say the least. When you solo over this tune do you use bass notes in the left hand or chords? I noticed different pianists use different self-comping stills. Mccoy tyner used lot of bass notes, even chick corea. How do you combin bass note and chord comping when solo?

  • nice walking bass please help me with walking bass

  • @gospelkeys07 going from B major to g is alittle strange is there an alternate scale or should i just focus on the common tones (B and F# 1 and 5 of Bmaj7 and 3 and 7 of G)?

  • I'm back to say thanks again, been working on this today and I've got it.

    Can't thank you enough!

    Next step is to put in my own inversions/voicings.

    Peace!

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