Fred Sokolow Teaches I've Got Rhythm Part 2/2
As long as you’ve done that much I’ve Got Rhythm, we might as well will go ahead and do fill out chord solo for the tune. A chord solo is a solo in which is great method of playing of playing for a jazz guitar player because you’re playing chords back yourself up and melody some time. What you usually do is put the melody towards the very top, highest notes in the chords that you’re playing so it stands out more. I’m using a finger style playing, using my thumb a lot and sometimes my fingers. I’ve seen a lot of players get well some more it sounds than with a flat pick which is kind of amazing to me but it can be done either way.
Before we do the chords for I've Got Rhythm I want to tell you about one substitution that I use when I play it. A substitution is a jazz technique in which you substitute one chord for another and sometimes it’s direct substitution I play in the G6 instead of a—I’m playing in the G9 instead of a G7 that’s where you—if you’re going back to the chord types you stay within the chord type that just add some one interval to it like in 7th chord could turn into a 9th or a13th still just a fancy version of the 7th chord.
But there are other kinds of substitution where you really get completely away from the chord, from the original chord. In I've Got Rhythm sometimes instead of doing this 6-2-5-1, one thing that we were doing for the—instead of playing the 6 I’ll play the G with the third in the bass. Instead of 1, I’ll play the 1 with third in the bass and instead the 6 Minor, I’ll play this, the diminished chord. So it’s—[Demonstration] instead of—[Demonstration] and it’s just another variation at the same thing you’re still doing a 6-2-5-1 kind of progression. Okay let’s see, here’s a little finger style version of this tune.
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I’ve written down the chord bridge and mapped out that arrangement I've Got Rhythm in your tab book but still going to slow it down a little bit and play it for you to more recognizable temples as you can try to get a clear picture of my left hand is doing. Also, I have to confess that I threw in another really interesting substitution. The last and the third time I did this 6-2-5-1 thing, I did this little sort of blues turnaround thing I’ve gone G to G7 to C to C Minor and then 1-5-1 and that’s a typical blues turnaround. That’s actually I used a lot of blues tune so you can take it the way back to the key of E and go like that. And it turns out in zillions of tunes it’s one of those standard progression thing that I was talking about. So slowing down, I've Got Rhythm in arrangement you’ll get something like this.
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