Miles Davis- All Blues
A brief overview
- Created by: Oliver Moodie
- Created on: 09-03-15 17:56
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- All Blues
- Tempo
- moderate
- Jazz waltz
- moderate
- Rhythm
- Swung Quavers
- Lots of syncopation
- Dynamics
- No dynamics written due to it being improvised
- however in the the solos the 'comping instruments are quiet
- Context
- Jazz developed during the early 20th Century
- The main aspect of jazz is improvisation
- The album 'Kind of Blues' was released in 1959
- Metre
- 6/4
- Structure
- 3. Solos
- Trumpet, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Piano
- 2. Head
- Repeated once
- 4. Head
- Repeated once
- 1. Intro
- Rhythm section
- 5. Coda
- Trumpet solo
- 3. Solos
- Melody
- played in the head
- trumpet: short, synocpated
- Alto sax: quicker and a wider range
- Tenor sax: fast scales and quick runs
- Piano: simple, leads to a string of parallel chords
- Instrumentation
- Trumpet muted in the Head
- Alto sax
- Tenor Sax
- Tenor sax
- Pizzicato bass guitar
- Piano
- Texture
- Intro: just the rhythm section
- Piano tremolo
- Drum ostinato
- Short bass riff
- Saxaphone accompanies the rhythm section
- Solos
- Drum kit playing the ride cymbal
- Piano 'comping
- Intro: just the rhythm section
- Harmony and Tonality
- G major
- Flattened 7th ( F# to F)
- Mixolydian mode
- Flattened 7th ( F# to F)
- Modal
- G7 G7 G7 G7
- 12 Bar Blues Structure
- Gm7 Gm7 G7 G7
- D7 E flat7 F F
- 12 Bar Blues Structure
- D7 E flat7 F F
- G major
- Tempo
- G7 G7 G7 G7
- Gm7 Gm7 G7 G7
- D7 E flat7 F F
- D7 E flat7 F F
- Gm7 Gm7 G7 G7
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