ABILITY RATING
Hard
Key Various
Tempo 120bpm
Info https://bit.ly/3tFqonJ
Will improve your…
- Use of semi-quaver and semi-quaver triplets
- Legato and tapping techniques
- Phrasing with the whammy bar
Tis month we welcome back Nick Johnston to play over an emotive track with plenty of instrumental rock and fusion vocabulary. As Nick explains, performing over A Joy Fulfilled was a creative challenge and the video captures a spontaneous approach without too much overthinking. The tempo is a cool 120bpm and several time signatures feature including 3/4, 4/4 and 7/4.
Nick breaks this track down to have four main tonal centres. The chorus uses A Mixolydian (A-B-C#-D-E-F#-G); the bridge uses A Major (A-B-C#-D-E-F#-G#) and this contains the same notes as the relative Minor scale F# Minor so you can view this whichever way is the most convenient.
For the interlude section C Major is the main scale (C-D-E-F-G-A-B) and this pivots into C Minor (C-D-Eb-F-G-Ab-Bb) To simplify this you can view the chorus and bridge section as being parallel tonal centres - the only difference between A Mixolydian and A Major is one note; where A Mixolydian features a b7 interval (G), A Major features a Major 7th interval (G#). Similarly, to change C Major to C Minor requires a flattening of the 3rd, 6th and 7th degrees.
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