Jamming On "So What" (Miles Davis)

Jamming on the changes of "So What" on a backing track by http://www.jazznbluestracks.com.

I imported the backing track into the audio recording and editing program audacity and played the improvisation on a second track.

I used a Lin6 Toneport Ux2 to get the guitar "into" the PC.

The rendered soundtrack was afterwoods aligned to the video (captured with a logitech webcam) in the program "Magix Video 2007". As you can see the result is not completely well synchronised.

Future video's will be better (I hope) since the aquisition of a Kodak Zi6.

I use mostly the following melodic devices:

D (and Eb) dorian (minor with a natural 6th), Dmin pentatonic, D min arpeggio (min7, min9, min11), the triads diatonic to the D minor dorian scale and chromatic passing tones.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• guitar
• solo
• improvisation
• so
• what
• miles
• davis
• dorian
• scale

[GuitarTab666]

Awesome timing man!! It really swings! You are just behind the beat in such a perfect manner. Got any tips on how to work on that?

[hugojacquet]

@GuitarTab666

Hey Thanks. A Tip:

Play "alternate picking" very consequently. Exercise eight notes: scales, arpeggios etc on a swing backing track. Like for example the dorian mode of Dmin (= c major scale over D min Chord).

Play swing pattern of eights of course (long - short etc...)

BUT HERE COMES THE TRICK:

Emphasize every second eight note (yes, the short one).ATTENTION: this means that if you play alternate picking (and you have to to pull this off) you have to emphasize the UPSTROKE!

[3R1CtheRED]

@hugojacquet On wind instruments accenting every second note is called back tongue-ing, so i guess on a guitar it would be back picking

[hugojacquet]

@3R1CtheRED Hey, interesting. never thought there would be a word for it :-). Thanks.

[lukesolo99]

Tu maitrise vraiment bien le mode dorien, gamme mineur mélodique et harmonique, peux-tu me dire quel guitarisres, albums, tu as écouté pour te mettre ses sonorités dans l'oreille ???

D'avance merci.

[hugojacquet]

Bonjour Luke,

Merci pour le compliment. Tout dabord naturellement le morceau "So What" meme, l'original, le solo de miles. J'ai beaucoup étudié Pat Metheny (le solo sur "the girls next door" par example), Mike Stern (tres bon plans sur 5->1 (min), utilisation de la gamme hramonique sur le "5".

Hugo

[jazzjanne1]

Sounds very good!

Janne from Sweden

[learneasyguitar]

A nice full 1.49 tasty chorus. Very nice.

[NahuelMusic]

really nice playing!

[HellzSmellz]

HELL fire. .

[InspiredProphecy]

This is awesome!

[kenteles]

love it to bits

[dislajk]

beatiful

[koopatroopanyc]

this is phenomenal