Friday, May 25, 2007
Have you met Miss Jones at the bridge?
And if so, what did you do? Seriously, is there anything you can play during the bridge of "Have You Met Miss Jones" that sounds coherent and doesn't require tracking those chord changes? Has anyone found a safe place within only two scales that can produce decent results without too many clams?
For fun a couple of friends and I have been getting together almost weekly to work on some jazz standards. Jerry plays trumpet, Frank bass, and yours truly guitar (sometimes using a GR-20 guitar synth). I'm decent at comping, and know enough chords and alterations to get by, but am a lame soloist. And so far for "Miss Jones" I have found nothing that works for me. Although at one point I read bass and treble clef well and tenor clef a little I am mostly self-taught on guitar and never bothered to learn to read music for it. That doesn't help matters. I play by ear and knowing what the chord notations mean.
I've read that some folks think Coltrane took the bridge from this tune as the basis for "Giant Steps" as they both cycle backward via major 3rds instead of the circle of 5ths you hear in most compositions. Anyway, if you met Miss Jones at the bridge and it worked for ya, lemme know.
Click here for the great Jimmy Bruno's version.
For fun a couple of friends and I have been getting together almost weekly to work on some jazz standards. Jerry plays trumpet, Frank bass, and yours truly guitar (sometimes using a GR-20 guitar synth). I'm decent at comping, and know enough chords and alterations to get by, but am a lame soloist. And so far for "Miss Jones" I have found nothing that works for me. Although at one point I read bass and treble clef well and tenor clef a little I am mostly self-taught on guitar and never bothered to learn to read music for it. That doesn't help matters. I play by ear and knowing what the chord notations mean.
I've read that some folks think Coltrane took the bridge from this tune as the basis for "Giant Steps" as they both cycle backward via major 3rds instead of the circle of 5ths you hear in most compositions. Anyway, if you met Miss Jones at the bridge and it worked for ya, lemme know.
Click here for the great Jimmy Bruno's version.
Labels: jazz guitar soloing, jimmy bruno, miss jones
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