Yesterday

Rob Olds does a wonderful job with my Big Band tune.

The Lemon In The Tree

A very slightly reharmonized jazzy version of The First Noel.

The First Noel

Here are the six scales that Gary assigned for week two.  I tried to make pieces around 30 seconds long using only the scales he assigned.  I hope that they are to your liking.

D Dorian

This is the famous Chick Corea song, "500 Miles High."  After the lectures about chord scale choices, Gary Burton assigned this to us as the third week's exercise.  I loaded the Bass and Drum mp3 track into Logic, dialed up my favorite electric piano, and had at it.  Around the 11th or 12th take, I said, hmmm...  I don't hate this.  I hope that you don't either.

500 Miles High

The third tune in Gary Burton's Improvisation Course is Keith Jarrett's "Memories of Tomorrow."  Starting with a Minor Line Cliche and then moving into two bars of Common Scales (that means the two chords share a Key of the Moment and are therefore deriving their scales from the same group of notes), Keith goes back and forth between Guide Tone Lines (voice-leading) and Common Scale areas.

Memories of Tomorrow

Olhos de Gato by Carla Bley.  Although this is an assignment in the Gary Burton Improvisation Class, I went back to the Paul Bley recording for inspiration and direction.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzc5JNmsaR4  I love this tune.

Olhos de Gato

The last assignment in Gary Burton's Improvisation course is a 6 chorus blues in F with a melody to work with.

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