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mikeh
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Roel,
So What & Impression are perfect samples. I work in a "jazz rock" group - actually it was a "classic rock" group that started to add jazz materials for our own sanity (how many times can one play Brown Eyed Girl before dementia hits???)
So What and Impressions were two very obvious jazz songs that were relatively easy to learn and were not sooo "outside" that the normal "rock crowd" in the clubs we played could actual like them. While advance knowledge of modes, etc. certain can help create better solo's, these songs don't "require" that level of knowledge.
Now we did try to learn Birds Of Fire by Mahavisnu, it took forever to learn and people hated it. We spent weeks learning it and maybe played it twice.
I know this thread is about songwriting, but the whole issue of complex theory & chord patterns got me off on something else.
So What & Impression are perfect samples. I work in a "jazz rock" group - actually it was a "classic rock" group that started to add jazz materials for our own sanity (how many times can one play Brown Eyed Girl before dementia hits???)
So What and Impressions were two very obvious jazz songs that were relatively easy to learn and were not sooo "outside" that the normal "rock crowd" in the clubs we played could actual like them. While advance knowledge of modes, etc. certain can help create better solo's, these songs don't "require" that level of knowledge.
Now we did try to learn Birds Of Fire by Mahavisnu, it took forever to learn and people hated it. We spent weeks learning it and maybe played it twice.
I know this thread is about songwriting, but the whole issue of complex theory & chord patterns got me off on something else.