Friday, August 31, 2012

An Augmented Mood

I wrote this piece around the time I moved from Seattle to Utah.  I was in my early twenties.  As I mentioned in another post, I enjoy using the jazz minor modes in funk music.  This was my first composition to do so.  The Bb augmented chord which makes up the third mode of the G jazz minor scale is emphasized in the main riff, as are the two modes built off of the E and F# -7b5 chords.  The solos take place over the C and D dominant chords.  There is a section that features a series of dominant 7ths in a II7-V7-I7 type progression.  These chords briefly take the piece outside of G jazz minor.

I made this recording using my Eric Johnson Stratocaster.  The amp is my Vox 15-watt.  The chords and bass were prerecorded on my BOSS RC-2 loop station.  Some of the leads were worked out previous to the recording, while others are improvised.


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