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Changing Colors| May, 2008Alter your chords to spice up your soloing. Gonzalo is a master of changing colors over long harmonic rhythms. This is a device that creates tension and release, consonance and dissonance, light and dark relationships, as well as a great deal of sonic interest in what otherwise might be a flat harmonic terrain. Practice the following devices and refer to the measure numbers to see how Gonzalo plugged these colors into his “Hip Side” solo. Ex. 1. It’s not until measure 15 of his “Hip Side” solo that Gonzalo plays his first full voicing, shown in 1a. As a further surprise, it’s in his right hand. It’s a colorful chord, with the inclusion of the eleventh. Make sure you play the A and G with your thumb. D Dorian is the default scale to play over a Dm11. In the very next measure, Gonzalo changes colors with the introduction of a b5. This voicing (1b) also contains a natural ninth, indicating the sixth mode of the melodic minor scale, in this case the F melodic minor — starting on D.
These files correspond to the lessons and Hot Solo transcription starting on page 32 of the May ’08 issue of Keyboard. All files performed by Scott Healy. |
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