Tags
bass guitar, Cole Porter, Coursera, improvisation, jazz, music, standard
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Improvisation on a jazz standard by Cole Porter.
Bass guitar solo performed by Mark Snyder. Backing track provided by Gary Burton @ Berklee Music. Completed for assignment #1 of the Introduction to Improvisation course at Coursera.org.
Sweeeeeeet.
I thought you would dig this. I was pretty happy with this as a start. It’s not an easy improvisation because- like a lot of jazz- the tonality is kind of ambiguous. (It’s kinda sorta in the key of C. There is a raging discussion in the class forum among the rock players as to what key it’s in. My reply: “Welcome to jazz.” ).