EP410-A-Minor-Jam

Response to Active Melody May 2021 Challenge.

This month's mission statement, an episode of Pimp My Chords! 
Take a bland but honest I VI V progression and dress it for the Ball using triads of all colours and inversions.
I expect "a tasteful selection of" was said or implied too, but I didn't hear that. Instead I heard QUANTITY!!

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AM-May-Challenge-2021  Pimped Chord Blues

Andy Newman Blues Guitar

Active Melody collaboration between myself and AM member and friend Denise. EP188 is a slow, laid back, bluesy groove. Since we both had holidays while we were  recording this, we've included some memories of those holiday trips.

EP188 slow, laid back, bluesy groove.

Andy Newman Blues Guitar
Could have used a few more days to get this up to snuff but I've run out of time so it will have to do as it is.
The challenge this month was to show something that has changed the way I play at some point. One of the main things that have changed the way I play. or try to play, is to link everything to CAGED chords and triads off those shapes.
That is using different voicings as variations and lead lines and fills off those voicings.
So to try and demonstrate that I'm taking this jazzy chord progression and playing it differently on each iteration.

AM Challenge July 2021 - EP063 and chord voicings

I've always enjoyed the classical showcases that Geoff Goodwin has posted on the AM forum and wondered what it would be like to try adding a lead over such pieces.
Over the last few weeks the two of us have worked on a collaboration to try and find out.

Geoff suggested a "Prelude in A Minor" by Ferdinando Carulli as the backdrop for this experiment. A beautiful composition on its own, which he's played with his usual masterful touch.
For my part I've tried to construct a lead to compliment it. These old masters were using diminished and dominant7 chords to add tension just as we are today which made it a interesting challenge.

Although Ferdinando may have been a little conservative in naming his compositions, we'd like to think he would have warmly embraced a health dose of overdrive if he'd had the chance!

Prelude In A Minor

Andy Newman Blues Guitar

Active Melody Challenge August 2021.
This months challenge to compose a peice using only two chords. The 1 chord plus either a 4 or a 5. I've opted for the 4 in this 16 bar blues in A. The 4 (D) covering bars 8 to 12.
The background courtesy of a distant thunderstorm looking out the rear of the apartment.

1 Step 4ward

When it comes to traditional English songs, they don't much more traditional than 'Scarborough Fair'. Many outside the U.K. will know it from Simon and Garfunkel's  version in 1960's but the song itself is much older dating back to the 17th century and possibly earlier still.

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