Elio's October 2021 Fix-it submission

[Elio]

I decided to do another jazz standard this month and incorporate some of the feedback from Geortgia on my Mind. This time it's April Showers, starting with the melody followed by an improvised solo.

I originally annotated the chord changes over the rhythm part of the video so I could more easily keep track of them while experimenting with different licks. It turned out to be a huge help when trying to find good notes to target based on the chords, so I decided to keep leave it in for future improvising efforts.

 

[artyman]

That was a very pleasant listen.

 

[PapaRaptor]

Excellent!

 

[MikeS]

Very nice!

 

[Neil]

Excellent tune! Where did you get the backing track for this? I'd like to give it a go.

 

[Elio]

Excellent tune! Where did you get the backing track for this? I'd like to give it a go.

I got that one from a TrueFire course by Frank Vignola, but I found the identical one on YouTube (minus my rhythm playin g ) while I was looking for some variations a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIlaGXfkC4s.

 

[Jack]

That was really nice Elio - your improvising was very melodic - fit the song really well! Beautiful guitar too