Archive for November, 2009

Peter Bernstein’s solo on “Lady Bird”

Here is a PDF of Peter Bernstein’s solo on “Lady Bird”, as recorded on Melvin Rhyne’s CD “Stick to the Kick”. You can listen to the solo here.

A couple of notes:
- Peter loves to play Ab minor over a G dominant when resolving to C. I’ve marked where he does this in this solo, but he does it a lot in general.
- He also plays a lot of really nice big arpeggios leading into more scalar melodic stuff, like in measures 12, 27, 55 and 60. I think these types of lines sound great and are a real hallmark of his style.
- He plays the same triplet arpeggio line over C major in measures 17 and 21 but gets out of it in two different ways.
- Measures 43-44, where he plays the 9th and 13th of the ii and V chords strike me as another signature phrase.

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