Some thoughts on "understanding progressions"
Greetings from No. California. And a first time poster. I'm jazzed on the forum here and all the great people so into their music! I've just spent the last week working through my first Campilongo lesson "understanding Progressions" and just wanted to share a few thoughts. I am very stoked about the concepts in the voice leading lesson using the 2 5 1 6 progression with a pedal tone (each scale degree from the key) on top and here is why. I started pursuing the six string after gigging around on fender bass for around twenty five years or so. Just wanted to comp and ring out cool chords through changes and go from there. After a couple years of self educating with a lot of books and stuff (watch out for Ted Green. his book "Chord Chemistry" is like the Necronomicon, BTW. )I got some real and immediate traction from "understanding progressions" and have rewrote it in number form and placed it first page in my book of practice routines which I transpose to a new key every Mon. going through all 12 keys every 12 weeks. There's a bunch of fun to be had recording the whole series and using that track to practice all the arpeggios from the parent scale (I've been pulling in the five "wrong" notes from the key into the arpeggios, using them to slam into the "right" notes, all the sudden it it becomes like music and not some dreaded scales and modes. a good time can also be had in going down the chart of 2 5 1 6 's I.E all the Dm's all the G7's etc.. and playing the major scale all the way through each chord in that way! and don't forget about root 5 and root 6 chord scales. lots a fun slipping in some Dim chords between the diatoncs b2,b3 etc... If some blathering is noticeable here, I'm a little amped up on two cups of coffee and a great guitar week after a month or so of a dry and arid musical rut and uninspired finger wiggling (on the guitar). Maybe better to annoy and bore people on this forum than my long suffering friends and coworkers. Anyhoo, gotta go and get ready for a bass gig in a winery this afternoon. Please forgive me if I have wasted your time.
Thanks Jim for the great lesson and sharing your gifts!
Regards, Scott in California
Thanks Jim for the great lesson and sharing your gifts!
Regards, Scott in California
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This lesson was a real eye-opener for me and helped some things click in my brain. Jim's lessons in general have been very inspiring to me (& others) and it sounds like you are having the same experience, hope you continue finding inspiration.
Tony
I want to really dig into progressions before moving on to Freddie G then maybe Django.
Seems a good way to build up the skills and start getting thrown out of auditions less frequently!
Its kinda hard to choose what lesson to take on next with so many great choices.just after my first two a girlfriend said my playing has noticeably jumped to the next level!
Jango and blues stuff also.Hell, I'd like to eat up all these lessons for that matter.