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another tune that you can play in this
And this is gonna be a little
and playing swing tunes on the harmonica
which I'm gonna get into great detail on,
in the more advanced
So I got rid of rythym.
This chord progression is something
And it is used as the basic material,
structure for
Sometimes just the A section
Sometimes just the B section
Sometimes they'll use a different
And in the key of F it sounds like this.
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I'm dating myself,
but the Flintstones and
all sorts of others.
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I mean this is like public
It happens to have been
who wrote a whole lot of good stuff, and
It just goes back and
forth between these chords,
and then it goes to the bridge,
which gets a little bit weird.
It's an A seven.
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To a G seven to a C seven.
It doesn't sound weird and
on the diatonic harmonica
So
then it goes back to the A section.
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an AABA form.
Eight bars, and
And then you play the last section
So 32-bar form.
So, if you're using the 12th
position on this instrument here,
you can play bluesy things on it,
jazzy things.
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use any overblows
there and it sounded
pretty jazzy.
So, now the bridge,
A7, so if you remember all your positions,
A is the fourth position.
So now,
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which is the third position.
And then G which is more familiar ground,
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which is first position.
And then back to the,
the bridge is the hard part.
So we can do the stepping
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in a club full of people who are having
a good time, they'll love it.
All I did was I just played one note.
That one note worked
Isn't that wild?
It's an A
because A is A.
A is the fifth note of D and
And A is the ninth of G seven which
is in the mixolydian mode.
And then it's the sixth of C, which is
and then it's the third of F.
So I can hold it all
It's amazing, if you find the right
[LAUGH] And you can just,
with a very limited amount of technique
some fairly weird chord changes if
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you should learn what
So if we have an A7 chord
the notes of that chord are A [SOUND],
C-sharp [SOUND], E [SOUND], and
G [SOUND], and A
And then D7 chord
is D, C, A, F-sharp, D.
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which you know.
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you can lay into a blues lick on the G7.
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on the bridge here.
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you can practice
playing like that.
There are very many, once you get into
also computer programs that
I would say, Jamey Aebersold's CDs and
also Band in the Box,
I mean, thousands of tunes on them.
And you can practice along with those,
cause I can't possibly give you all
All the tunes that you're gonna
But this is I Got Rhythm, and
Which is not the actual key
The actual key, the standard key,
I'll deal with that in
a little while, but,
back to the bridge.
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what if I want to play
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jazzy, bluesy lick.
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That's another approach to playing,
is to find one lick that you can
Just for beginning stuff, and
if you want to practice
with each of these chords,
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You don't know how to do that one yet.
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It's a little strange if you're not
But D
The D Mixolydian mode just requires
that you hit an F-sharp on the second hole
draw, instead of an F.
That's not very hard at all.
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this is a little, sort of a preface,
to being able to play jazz.
This tune is such a common tune and
easy to play on most instruments,
But in 12th position, it's not too bad.
And the standard key,
And we're going to playing it in B-flat
So I think that's probably
for rhythm changes in 12th position.
I think that's probably gonna close out
the intermediate section
And if you guys decide to play
If you want to do it to a tape or
if you want to do it to the backing track
I'd be really curious
And if you pick out some sort of jazz
whether it's in F or any other key,
how to play in 12th position.
For example, if it's in C and
you go C, B, A, G and
So you can send in those things to me and
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