how do YOU walk over autumn leaves?

[thephilosopher]

just wondering how everyone else approaches the tune?

[tzadik]

I am not sure what sort of answer you are looking for, but I try to walk over it in as many ways possible.

When a melody asccends bit by bit like AL, I like to sometimes make my lines sound more like they are descending. Or vise versa. Contrary motion like that can make a statement. But I don't do it all the time...I think you have to change things up frequently as the tune goes through its lifespan, ya know?

[stu FORD]

same way i walk over every tune, following the changes, trying to make long ascending or descending lines. dont always aim for the root, try aiming for chord tones, you get more possiblilities that way.

[steveb98]

Just learning to Walk then keep it simple. Just use roots, fifths, and octaves till you can walk the tunes comfortably. Then start adding cromatic approach notes to the roots, fifths, and octaves. After good with that add thirds and ghost notes. Then skips and octace displacement. In the end you can use scales and modes as sources. It's a building process like anything else.

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

As friends above have said, you can approach it so many different ways. In my case, if I were going to play AL right now in E minor, I'd play something like this:

[iplaybassguitar]

seems like a stupid question to me, dont rake your yard, dont worry though , you still have a couple months to practice before there are really leaves on the ground....once they are, simply point your body in that direction and place one foot on front of the other, then repeat, over and over, until you are on the autum leaves, then my friend, you have done it.

[AdaGio³]

Originally Posted by iplaybassguitar

seems like a stupid question to me, dont rake your yard, dont worry though , you still have a couple months to practice before there are really leaves on the ground....once they are, simply point your body in that direction and place one foot on front of the other, then repeat, over and over, until you are on the autum leaves, then my friend, you have done it.

Now that is funny!