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de nal track on Lee Ritenour’s 1989
album Color Riris this month's
transcription - a pseudo-classial piece
cenlted “Enude. The album features 2
rnixture of the fasion, jazz and latin
styles thal aze pat of the Familiar
Ritenour sound. Lee originally made his name in
the 70s a8 au ace “Tis take" session guitarist. He
has recorded many solo albums, as well as
numerous collaborations. So get those nylons out
and les get on with the lesson!
performance notes
‘The opening section a fee ime Introduetion to
the piece and Features the guitar and contra bass
(e-string bass guitar played on the original by the
equally impressive Anthony Jackson), There Is no
liek track, and when it came to doing the
backing tracks, Andy Frost and myself bad to just
feel these opening bars until the click started in
bar 12. The bar numbers ae therefor reference
only ane do not actualy reMeet the passing of a
particular umber of beats. Prom bar 12 the piece
's played a tempo" which literally means “to cime:
The harmony is basically D major and some
parallel modes fe D Mixolydian, D Aeolian), The
progressions are made up primatily of chords of
these keys over a D bass note. The most difficult
‘aspect of this pee fs the 16th note pushes. Be
‘ateul of the timing of these ~ they appear for
‘ccaimple im bars 12 and 14, The second theme
from bar 26 has the same fel and includes some
nice chord substitutions (check out the titone
Substitution om the last beat of har 28). From bar
34 to bar 39 there isa fst tiple! 16th-note
passage. The right hand uses the pater p Im.
‘The thumb, p, plays the melody on the G, D and
A strings against dhe triples on the top two
strings. AU bar 42 i's back tothe repeat sign at
bar 10 and trong to endl (don't forges to take
the secoud time ending). The backing tracks
Tearue bass, drums and a litde 805 sya,
tritone substitution
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dominant (ie 7 chords). By replacing a 7 cord
‘with one whose root isa tritone fle three tones)
tomy, you can add extra colour (o your chord
progression. In this case the Bb is a subsite for
fn E7 chord (which would normally be used to
move tothe following A chor]. sf
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