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The Nearness Of You (walking and chewing gum)
I've been at working combining vocal and instrumental arrangements. This is a practice session. The guitar is still a bit of a distraction from proper vocal techniques. Still working on that. From a guitar perspective, making sure that the vocal track and guitar accompaniment work well and avoiding duplication of the melody. https://youtu.be/CxJRcjtznrk
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Bravo!
3d •
Round Midnight Melody A/A'
While grinding on the CM version, I have also been working on playing the basic melody. This is sections A and A' (which is 3/4 of the song). I think it might be an octave too low, though. I need to experiment with moving it up. As always, feedback and comment are appreciated 🙏
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@Mentor Bob Kinney Nice catch! Looks like when transcribed the lead sheet into MuseScore I messed up a few notes.
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Bi-Weekly Coach Check-In (07/20/2026)
Hi Accelerator and Catalyst students, if you haven't yet, please fill out the second Coach Check-In of July! 👋 http://www.jazzguitarlessons.net/coach-check-in PS Just comment below to mark this action as complete. Thanks!
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Bb Blues improv exercise
The second in the "sleeping dog sessions"... A while back I wanted to focus on improv over a Bb blues progression (a short form and in memory). My goal was to develop a palette of reusable approaches I could combine (ideally in real-time) for simple, target-based improv. As I was working on this, @Coach Gabriel Sebrian gave three valuable improv workshops (visual pathways, chromatic approach Bb Blues, and the connector method). I practiced and integrated them into an improv exercise using the different targeting approaches. After quite some time, I still struggle even at this slow pace to not get lost (I do here the fourth time through) while trying to avoid repeating approaches. Overall, I have mixed feelings about the return on investment and whether this was the most effective/efficient approach. As I have played this so many, many times, it is also starting to feel canned or pre-baked: certain patterns or lines have formed that I have locked onto. TLDR; looking for some feedback, ideas and directions I can go. What say ye, JGA?
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@Coach Gabriel Sebrian Thanks for the feedback! I really needed confirmation I was heading in the right direction and I think the overall consensus is: "yes". Your two-part, practice block approach gives me a solid direction forward...much appreciated. At one point, I thought about trying this out over a different progression, but I had concerns about exceeding cognitive capacity and dilution of practice time. That led me to the idea of breaking it down by working at the "baseball card" level of granularity instead. For instance, in the form of this exercise (off the top of my head), there are: I-IV-I, ii-V-I, and I-VI-ii-V (depending on whether you look at the G as a secondary dominant of the ii or as the VI of the I). I was thinking it might lead to more reusable/recognizable patterns that can be transferred to other progressions. However, I don't want to over complicate things and knock myself off track...I am hardly "stable" with this at the moment.
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Thanks for all the valuable feedback and encouragement, everyone! It's a reminder of why its important to post work in progress.
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Bi-Weekly Coach Check-In (07/06/2026)
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