It’s Willie Time #3 – Tune Up

gary smulyan | January 14, 2011

We're back again for our 3rd installment of "It's Willie Time."  A lot of tunes have a similar pattern to "Tune Up", the II-V-I going down in whole steps.  Once you know "Tune Up", you know a lot of tunes.  Willie starts it off showing how you can move the pentatonic pairs through the changes and start establishing where the tonalities are.  I'll then show you an example of using the tri-tone substitution on this tune.  Willie also gives a little taste of some diminished sounds which he outlines in his Diminished 3-pack. And we finish by playing some short phrases back and forth.  That's about it for this episode.  Let me know if you have any questions or comments below.