Honeysuckle Rose

[Pete Martin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fPSx3WF3pw

Just got a webcam. Don't laugh too hard

[JimRichter]

Sounds great, Pete. One of my favorite standards.

[Ken Olmstead]

Very nice Pete! Nice soloing!

[chip]

That was nice. Thanks...

[Carolyn Hastings]

Really enjoyed that!

[Al Bergstein]

Nice Pete. I've wondered about soloing on this at times, not really feeling like I was getting the right variety of ideas out on it. Thanks.

Did you just use Band in a Box doing the piano and bass backup?

[MnRoss]

Very nice Pete. Like alb asked were you using "Band in a Box"? Also I run into Rich Levine (sp) in Winfield every year, he camps with us and talks about you. So finally nice you see you and hear you play. I'm one of Rich's Minnesota pals..

[John Rosett]

Smile for the camera, Pete!

[AlanN]

U da man.

I'm trying to pick Hot House, can any of you boppers out there confirm that Hot House is based on Honeysuckle Rose changes?

[Don Stiernberg]

Pete,
Nice to finally get to hear you play. Keep 'em coming!

Alan,
Hot House is based on What is this Thing Called Love by Cole Porter. The bop head based on Honeysuckle Rose(Fats Waller) is the A section of Charlie Parker's Scrapple from the Apple.

[bobby bill]

You coax some great tone out of that oval hole. Very enjoyable.

[JeffD]

Yes, keep'em coming. Just beautiful.

My Dad was a huge jazz fan, and he would really have enjoyed that.

[Pete Martin]

Thanks all. Will post a few more when my tendenitis allows (that is why the tempo is pretty slow on HR).

Yes, I do use Band in a Box for the back up. One of the best practicing tools around.

[Lawrence Fullenkamp]

Pete your soloing is great. You seem very relaxed. I like how you let the tune breathe and use rests as tastefully as your note choices.

Larry Fullenkamp

[hank]

Smooth as silk. Just the way I like it. Man it's refreshing in here. Sometimes it seem like all I'm hearing anymore is someone hammering away notes in hyper drive like robots with no texture or feel. Your music talks to me and has that nice push pull feel. Like Larry said your use of the emptyness between notes as well as the notes themselves is masterful. Very nice tone as well, some spice but no over kill. Again, Smooth as silk. Thank you for sharing with us. I look forward to more and would love to hear you play a blue song.

[John McGann]

Yeah Pete! This is a good seminar in why downstrokes rule, and the use of space to help a solo breathe and give it a chance to build...killer whole tone stuff in that 2nd bridge, lovely chord soloing/comping...

[grassrootphilosopher]

Smile for the camera, Pete!

Yeah, smile. That´s what I´m being told all the time as well when I pick for people. Seems that the happy flow is tapped off our hearts to go to our arms while it does not reach our facial muscles.

[neal]

Really nice stuff, nice use of your chord solos.

Yeah, it'd be nice if you smile, but what the heck, more important you put out that good music. That camera can be intimidating.

[Dan Johnson]

very nice... definitely some material worth studying in that!

this mandolin cafe is always making me late for something!

[Fran]

Octave notes, excellent!

[SternART]

Cool Pete!!!.........but "that ain't no part of nothin'" there.....someone had to laugh a bit......

[Brad Weiss]

That's like a little history of jazz there, with the Joe Pass bass under the melody, some bebop flatted fifths, surrounding the chord tones a la Clifford Brown, Wes's octaves, topped off with a Louis Armstrong chromatic coronet run to end the whole thing. Sheesh! A whole lot of lessons in one tune - thanks, Pete!

[Jkf_Alone]

Wow Pete, I love the way you played with the time, and swung whole lines, instead of just notes.


can you walk through the chord forms you used? i can never play the backup to that tune without sounding cheesy... (from 3:19 on I think)

[Mike Romkey]

Sweet! And love the A. If you're taking requests, please do "Ain't Misbehavin'".

[Pete Martin]

Without seeing that specific section, I use 3 string rootless chords the most often. The basic ones for HR are these:

Gm7 335x
C7 325x
FMaj7 223x
F7 213x
BbMaj7 235x
G7 435x

Then other voicings with passing chords.