https://youtu.be/1usoxryzB5Y There's so much wrong with this recording, I just wasn't feeling it. But, I'm really tired of this tune and I've got to get past it, so I'm posting it and moving on. All I was really trying to do was learn to resolve to targets, mostly always thirds here, and in any way I could get there. Tasteful it's not, but I think I met my goal.

Student performance at the Martin Taylor Guitar Retreat (played on my Fibonacci "Martin Taylor" Joya https://youtu.be/Co5nQ9gw2Kk

Hey everyone, just a quick reminder that this week's workshop and last week's are both available now. If you couldn't make it live, the recordings are here: Melodic Comping on "All the Things You Are" A full etude, walked through step by step. Voicings, voice leading, and Ligon-style outline lines connecting the harmony across the whole form. If your comping tends to sit still while the changes move, start here. → https://www.skool.com/jazz-guitar/classroom/1d6ddcc6?md=0d9dbf068b524590b4bcb7d6df7fcb5b Target-Degree Practice Major scale technique built around one idea: every degree is a target, not a waypoint. One position (C 5-2), and from each degree you launch a small piece of jazz vocabulary, diatonic thirds and triads, with and without chromatic approach. Technique and usable vocabulary in the same motion. → https://www.skool.com/jazz-guitar/classroom/1d6ddcc6?md=746fcc969e6247e7a6275fb40cca5e11 Watch them in whatever order fits what you're working on right now. Questions in the thread below. Happy shedding 😎

Marc and I chatted about making the Galbraith rhythms more accessible to everyone, so I took the chords in Etude 2.5 on the blues changes and applied BG's Charleston rhythms to it. This is very similar to what I did with Autumn Leaves previously, but since several new members ( @Nancy R , @Andy Openshaw and @Ashwini Nepal ) are currently working thru Lesson 2, I thought it was timely to add this if they want to explore rhythmic variations in their comping. This also relates to the advanced comping that @Casey Childers and @Miquel Bassols are doing, since these rhythms are all over the Galbraith comping studies. For more background on this, Marc has a YouTube video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHehdY__wgc&t=408s There are six 12 bar sections, where I change the rhythm after each (these are marked in the attachment). In practice I might just work on a single 12 bar rhythm - which is a good way to start - but eventually the trick was to be able to make the change within the tune; A: (initial 25 seconds) Straight Charleston's starting on the first beat. I include 2 additional Charleston variations - adding an additional chromatic 8th note on the second beat (measure 3, 5, 7) and an additional eighth note on the & of 1 (measure 9). To me, these are still Charleston rhythms. B: (starts at 0:25) Charleston's that start on the & of 1. I try to hear the bass play on the first beat (to not be early), and land with the bass on the 3. I try to feel the downbeat of 3. C: (starts at 0:48) Charleston's that start on the 3rd beat, with an anticipation chord on the 4 &. I should hear me play the anticipation chord and then hear the bass play the root on the 1. D: (starts at 1:10) Charleston's that start on the & of 3 - and land on the first beat of the next measure. I try to make sure that I land the Charleston with the Bass on 1. This is similar in feel to Charleston's that start on the & of 1. I try to really feel the downbeat on 1 with the chord change.

Very busy these days with the second part of Shiny Stockings (I like this tune more and more each time) in the Galbraith exercise that @Mentor Bob Kinney is supervising us. Finished but not perfect, with some doubts in the final part. I have chosen to play it with the iReal Pro, following what Dr. @Casey Childers has also done. Many hours invested, but they are really worth it. I will continue with the last parts. I am also doing the melody and seeing what solos can be done. It is very interesting to start from the comping that Galbraith proposes to construct scales and arpeggios..