March 1, 2011

Rock Around the Clock Solo

Using the 12-bar blues chord progression you wrote out before (G Major), you will need to write a SOLO to replace the guitar solo/violin part found at measure 33-45. It does not need to be all 16th notes or anything crazy. It just needs to be something that you would feel comfortable playing. SO that means that you will have to play through your composition and see how it sounds. Also, since this is a solo, it should be more than half notes or whole notes. Make it interesting.

If you want to use true blues form, measures 1, 3, 5 (transposed) and 7 should be the same. But that's not really necessary. Some of you came up with some creative motifs in class today.

Here is what was written on the board for those of you who missed it:

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