Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Here’s the full 2-part etude based on All The Things You Are. First, the basic outline using different polyphonic patterns:
allthethings.pdf
And now with some melodic activity added:
allthethings2.pdf
And here’s a rather clumsy rendition of it:
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Of course, the idea is to use that as a foundation and to play around with [...]
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
I started messing around with applying patterns to some standards. Here is one I came up with for All The Things You Are:
Because of the constant movement in fourths, it pretty easy to apply a repetitive pattern like this. Other progressions require a little more creativity.
Here’s the same pattern with some added melodic movement:
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Continuing some ideas from my last post, here are some examples of combining intervals. Instead of parallel thirds, I’m alternating between thirds and sixths:
And here’s a pattern derived from that:
Now, maybe if we were looking for something a bit more modern, we could try other intervals. How about seconds and fourths?
And the [...]
