F minor Jam Track, News and Notes
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"Back in bebop, everybody used to play real fast. But I didn't ever like playing a bunch of scales and shit. I always tried to play the most important notes in the chord, to break it up. I used to hear all them musicians playing all them scales and notes and never nothing you could remember." - Miles Davis
Guitar Practice
Today, let's practice over a jam track in the key of F minor.
The Fm7, Gm7, & Ab chords are all in the key of Eb major, so the F Dorian mode would work well for soling over this.
The C7#9 at the end of the phrase is a bit of an outlier. The C chord in the key of Eb is typically a minor chord, but playing it as a Dominant chord adds some flare here - and just sounds cool. Since the #9 note is Eb, F Dorian still works to play over this chord.
Below is a jam track, the chord voicings used, and 1 position of the F Dorian Mode.
Fm Jam
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News & Notes 🗞️
- Bill Frisell joined World Cafe for a performance and interview.
- Fender announced a new run of Made-In-Japan web-exclusive guitars, including Telecasters, Stratocasters, Jaguars, and Jazzmasters. Fender Japan's factory typically makes guitars at an equal level of quality (if not better, in some cases), to Fender's American factory, generally at a bit lower prices.
- Fender announced a firmware update to their Tone Master Pro modeler, adding 8 new amps (including the '57 Champ, ’68 Custom Deluxe Reverb, and ’68 Custom Princeton Reverb), 8 new cabinet impulse response (IR) sets, 15 new effects, and other functionality enhancements.
- PRS released a SE Ed Sheeran Hollowbody I Piezo - Baritone model. With its hollow-body design and extended 27.7" scale length, this baritone guitar delivers rich resonance, excellent clarity, and tight low-end response—perfect for everything from alternate tunings to heavy riffs. Paired with PRS 85/15 “S” pickups and a PRS/LR Baggs piezo system, it offers a wide range of electric and acoustic-inspired tones. And it features a super cool finish..
- Martin Guitar announce a new Custom Shop 0-18K2 CFM IV acoustic guitar. The flamed koa guitar is imited to just 100 instruments.
- Martin Guitar also published Volume 16 of their Martin Journal. The digital version is free to read on their website.
- Andertons Music dove into Gibson's newly released '50s vs '60s ES-335 guitars.
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