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| What Album is All Blues Taken From? |
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| Kind of Blue by Miles Davis |
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| What are the frontline instruments in the piece? |
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| Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Trumpet |
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| What are the comping instruments ? |
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| Where and when was the exact location? |
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| How long did it take to record? |
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| How long did it take to record 'Kind of Blue'? |
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| What is the time signature? |
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| What is the Chord Stucture/Pattern using in All Blues? |
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G7 x4
C7 x2
G7 x2
D7#9 x1
Eb7#9 - D7#9
G7 x 2
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Starts quietly and get louder.
Ends quietly. |
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Swung quavers
Syncopation in solos |
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Based on 12 bar blues pattern
Altered & extended chords used also (G7 C7 D7#9 Eb7#9) |
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simple polyphony/thick texture in head
thinner in solos
very thin at end |
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| What are the musical features? |
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-muted trumpet
- bass plays pizzicato
- tremolo(trill) on piano
-use of riffs
-improvisation
- syncopation
- swung quavers |
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| The piece is based on 2 short riffs. what are they? |
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1- played by bass throughout most of piece
2- rising and falling 3rds played mostly by alto and tenor saxes and occasionally by piano |
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Describe the solos
(Couldn't think of a better question for this sorry baby xx) |
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Solos are improvised using
G mixolydian over G7 chords
C mixolydian over C7 chords
diminished scale over altered chords |
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| What is the structure of the piece? |
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Based on 12 bar blues pattern
Intro,
head 1,
link,
head 2,
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trumpet solo x 4,
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alto sax solo x4,
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tenor sax solo x4,
link piano solo x2,
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head 3,
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head 4,
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outro. |
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| Describe the instrumentation |
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Frontline- trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax
Comping- bass, drums, piano |
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punctuate the whole piece
breaks it up
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