Here I show you how to play the theme and the chords of Wayne Shorters tune " Footprints " which is a minor blues in 3/4. Beside that I give you tips which modes to use on the improvisation and some tricks on how to improvise in 3/4.

Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

 

23 hours ago, admin said:

Here I show you how to play the theme and the chords of Wayne Shorters tune " Footprints " which is a minor blues in 3/4. Beside that I give you tips which modes to use on the improvisation and some tricks on how to improvise in 3/4.

Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

 

Great video........cheers HP!

Here is a Dave Stryker live performance at Birdland which you might enjoy!....................he includes Wayne Shorter songs in his sets too.

 

Wayne Shorter song in this performance for sure:

 

So cool - a little detail offtopic. I use a professional reverb setting which simulates the Birdland Club on all jazz backing tracks you find here on this website.

Here is another concert from Birdland which might be of interest.............with a really cool guitarist, Chris Flory.................cool guitar too.

Chris used to be guitarist for Benny Goodman.

They are all such a great bunch of musicians.........hope you enjoy these two fantastic guitarists.......Chris Flory and Frank Vignola...............

 

This tune is still one of my favorite jazz standards because it is a minor blues in 3/4 and you can really explore the dorian mode on the Cm7 and on the Fm7. What I also started to use is the C melodic minor mode on the Cm7 chord which sounds great on this tune. Try it :

E |----------------------------|-----------------7--8----||

B |----------------------------|-----------8--10---------||

G |----------------------------|--7--8--10---------------||

D |-----------------7--9--10---|-------------------------||

A |-----------8--10------------|-------------------------||

E |--8--10-11------------------|-------------------------||