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	<title>The Science of Songwriting &#187; Melody</title>
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		<title>The Improvised Counterpoint of Freddie Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rhythm guitar is an instrumental role that can found in almost every popular style of music.  As well, the approach to rhythm guitar playing is fairly similar across a variety of genres.  For example, in bluegrass, the rhythm guitarist mostly strums big open chords on an acoustic guitar; in rock, the rhythm guitar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artifacts in &#8220;When The War Came&#8221; by The Decemberists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 23:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you familiar with the album The Crane Wife by the Decemberists?  The local radio station was playing the last track (&#8220;Sons and Daughters&#8221;) a lot last year, and I really liked it, so I picked up the album.  The song sounded as if it were something by Neutral Milk Hotel, who haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Tones in the Beatles&#8217;s &#8220;Help&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 16:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I talked a bit about the Beatles tune &#8220;With A Little Help From My Friends,&#8221; and I would like to follow up on that post with a look at yet another song by the Fab Four, their early hit from 1965 entitled &#8220;Help.&#8221;  The constructions of these two songs actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improvisatory Formulas of Charlie Christian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty-five years ago today, Charlie Christian died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 25.  Despite his short lived career, he left behind some ground-breaking single-string solos for electric guitar.  


Many people cite Charlie Christian as the father of jazz guitar.  Although his solos perhaps sound fairly complicated on first listen, only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diminished Chords in Lionel Hampton&#8217;s Solos</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/02/04/diminished_hampton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of swing-era Benny Goodman lately, i.e. stuff from the mid- to late-30&#8217;s and early 40&#8217;s, particularly the small groups recordings (trios, quartets, etc.&#8211;not the big band music).  It&#8217;s surprising to me how similar a lot of the licks and riffs in the solos are to early 50&#8217;s rock [...]]]></description>
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