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Caterpillar Jazz Talk Ideas for
improvisation. So,
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now you have your Caterpillar Jazz Walk.
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Now it's time to work out some
patterns for the right hand.
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To begin with,
because it's in the key of C and
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all the chords are strictly
within the C family,
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you can use any white key in the right
hand, so basically the C major scale.
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Okay, it'll all work, all C, F notes.
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You can play them randomly.
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Okay, but obviously it's preferable to
have some structure to your improvising.
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I'm going to take you through nine
simple pattern ideas that will
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sound good over your left hand chords.
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Pattern number one, root, second, third.
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This is a simple riff
on each chord change.
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The root note of the chord,
followed by the second and the third.
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So first chord, [SOUND] C major 7, middle.
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[INAUDIBLE] okay.
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Right hand plays the root, followed
by the second, third, and that's it.
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So one, two, three, four,
stretching out to F major 7.
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So you move up to the root.
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F, squeezing into B diminished,
half diminished 7.
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Go to B, play the root, second,
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third, stretching out to E minor 7.
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Go to A, A minor 7.
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D minor 7.
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G7
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And there's two ways you can play that.
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So, you can play it like a smooth jazz.
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And you can see in the left hand: I
make use of the thumb again, remember,
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as a rhythmic device.
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Or you can do it more of a swing style.
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[SOUND] Pattern two, using the C
major scale in a downwards direction.
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So again, C major works fine [SOUND].
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But if you use it in a four note at a time
pattern, you'll see how it fits in.
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So one, two, three, four, and
you're changing to F on the left hand, and
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you can see you're automatically
on F on the right hand.
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Changing to B half diminished 7th in
the left hand, so you're on the B here.
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[SOUND] You're stretching
out to E minor and you're
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On that chord, so it magically works.
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F
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And you're squeezing into A minor, you're
gonna start on A again on the right hand.
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D, both hands, G7.
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Pattern three, Triads.
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Now, this pattern uses basic
triads in the right hand.
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[SOUND] No seventh, okay.
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[SOUND] First, [SOUND] third,
[SOUND] fifth.
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And the pattern is, the chord change goes
from the root position, first chord.
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The next chord is a backwards inversion.
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So for the C major 7, you're going
to play root position, that pattern.
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First, third, fifth, third.
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Stretch out to F.
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You're going to go F backwards.
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Squeeze up to the B.
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Half diminished 7.
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There's B diminished,
7, inverted position.
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Stretch out to E minor, E minor backwards.
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A minor 7.
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D minor backwards, 7.
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G7.
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And again,
you can do it both ways, smooth.
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Or.
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