Funkallero

Johnathan Pennington Senior Recital; with Joe Vick, bass and William Vick, drums.

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Music

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• Funkallero
• jazz
• trio
• solo
• improvisation
• piano
• bass
• drums
• johnathan
• pennington
• UALR
• senior
• recital
• concert
• live
• standard
• funk
• rock
• arrangement
• bill
• evans

[dimasricchi]

Put your name in title because you are using the Bill Evans name

[20emesiecle]

@ConnickJr

This particular performance of this tune, I do use a lot of whole tone and augmented sounds throughout, to arrive at some funny notes, as the melody encourages. And I think that is what your ear is picking up on.

[20emesiecle]

@ConnickJr

I'm working out of a quartal framework around a C tonal center for the intro. If you want to think of a scale, I suppose you could roughly attribute a dorian scale to what I've done here.

The spot you're talking about, I continue to work with a motif that ended the last section, consisting of a half step up, and a major 3rd down. It gives the sound of a half diminished chord and perhaps an altered dominant, but this is incidental to the development of the motif.