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Concepts for Comping: Lesson 10

Updated: Oct 12

Song: Tune Up


Hey, this is Jay at MasterGuitarSchool.com

 

We are now at the point in this “Concepts for Comping” lesson series where we can begin applying the Open and Close-voiced chords on which we've been working to actual songs! 

 

The first tune we'll cover is Miles Davis's “Tune Up.”

 

If you were my personal student we would be playing together; you would play the chords, i.e. “accompany” or “comp” while I play the melody.

 

Obviously, we can't do that, but I've included this song in the video with me playing both parts, so you can get an idea of what it would sound like.

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Tune of the Month


“Tehachapi” is from my 1999 CD, "Sound Tracks." 

 

The tunes on this CD were chosen by my brother Kevin to accompany a documentary he produced in 1996 called Warbonnets on the High Iron.

 

That video was released under the auspices of his publishing company, White River Productions, and consists of images of the Santa Fe Railroad from northern Missouri to the end of the line in California. 

 

One tune was written specifically for the video. The rest of the tunes were chosen by Kevin from the existing plethora of music I had written and recorded from the early '70s up to the time he was doing the video.

 

“Tehachapi” was just a musical fragment, an idea I never really developed, that Kevin found while going through hours of tapes looking for material. I had completely forgotten about it. We decided not to rerecord it, we just used it as we found it; which explains why it's only a minute and 8 seconds long.

 

Another reason some of you might be interested is that it's in an altered tuning. I'm not a big fan of altered tuning. For my reasons why, see “Altered States” and “The Best of All Possible Tunings Is…”  

 

I wrote many tunes during my altered tuning stage, most of which are lost forever. Even if I wanted, I couldn't remember them. I can't remember for sure but I would guess “Tehachapi” is a Drop-C tuning.


 

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