Blues - kinda. There's this thing happening to me. I'm not interested in playing the two styles of music I've played the most throughout my career, unless I change the context dramatically. I talked recently of taking on a blues project, and that idea is growing favorably more. It's looking like it might bear a resemblance to my recent jazz album "standard deviations" on my Clazzimprov page.
The resemblance I'm speaking of is really about playing in two or more keys at once (there must be a name for this in classical theory), or in my case most of the time moving from one key to another. I was very free with this in my last jazz project. The blues is a much simpler style and form so I think I'll be able to do this poly-tonality thing in a deeper way - simultaneously (vertically).
Todays piece is a polytonal blues with the RH mainly in C and the LH mainly in A (again, I like keys a third apart). Minor thirds are great with this style as they share the same diminished tonalities, and the Major/Minor relative pentatonic and blues scale tonalities. I've tried, and will continue to, play in four keys at once (all minor thirds away from each other). It's possible, but at this point I'm a little ahead of myself!
The resemblance I'm speaking of is really about playing in two or more keys at once (there must be a name for this in classical theory), or in my case most of the time moving from one key to another. I was very free with this in my last jazz project. The blues is a much simpler style and form so I think I'll be able to do this poly-tonality thing in a deeper way - simultaneously (vertically).
Todays piece is a polytonal blues with the RH mainly in C and the LH mainly in A (again, I like keys a third apart). Minor thirds are great with this style as they share the same diminished tonalities, and the Major/Minor relative pentatonic and blues scale tonalities. I've tried, and will continue to, play in four keys at once (all minor thirds away from each other). It's possible, but at this point I'm a little ahead of myself!