| The tune is Pat Metheny's "Song for Bilbao" if you're looking for the changes. The A section goes back and forth between C7sus4 and Gbmaj7. What it amounts to is somewhere in between a C dominant blues and a C mixolydian sound. Janek obviously is the authority, but to my ear, there's are a lot of pentatonic-y blues riffs going on, chromatic sideslipping, superimposition of other dominant modes, sequencing of scales in fourths and other intervallic schemes, and a lot more tasty musical nuggets. For the more modern sounds like this, though, it's hard to simply explain it with fancy theoretical explanations. There's a heck of lot that goes into it, and understanding it comes through transcription, listening, and playing the music with cats who already get it.
Great playing, on that, man. Some real chemistry and *gasp* actual music! happening in spite of it being a bass-fest. Very, very nice moments in your solo, man, and Hadrien is just unreal to watch, haha. Classy stuff.
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