What can you do with just one chord?

Chords, scales, harmony, melody, etc.
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Hi, just wanted to share this practice exercise: 1 chord, 2 hands, 25 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH7GBNfIhDY
Note: backing track is iReal Pro: https://irealpro.com
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It’s all good stuff, especially if you can do something like this in unfamiliar keys.

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Nice ! I enjoyed that
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Well, improvising a melody or solo over a one-chord vamp is pretty fun.
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Cool
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Michael L wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:31 pm Hi, just wanted to share this practice exercise: 1 chord, 2 hands, 25 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH7GBNfIhDY
Note: backing track is iReal Pro: https://irealpro.com
The base track may be just playing C minor, but she DID play other chords accasionally. What she did is what we could call a very long "pedal point" (cfr. pedal point) over which she improvised. A pedal is not harmony.

Anyway, good stuff indeed, that reminds us of a time when music wasn't about "chords" but about playing melodies. Chords were the result of layering melodic lines, not the leading stuff.
Fernando (FMR)

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Joe Satriani is the master of that...playing all kinds of melodic modal stuff over a one chord vamp. Cool #9 is a good example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlbUUKN4KR0

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