Stop F%*#ing Up Footprints - Peter Martin | 2 Minute Jazz

Peter Martin shows you how to fix three common mistakes people
make when playing Wayne Shorter's classic standard "Footprints."


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What's going on? Peter Martin here for Two Minute Jazz. What is
that? That's the correct introduction to "Footprints." It's a
wonderful tune from Wayne Shorter that is often butchered. But
we're gonna fix that today. I'm gonna talk to you about how to
stop playing this tune wrong. I'm gonna give you three major
errors in this and how to fix them.





The first is that bassline and that little counter-melody. It's
even part of the melody. Anticipate it, one, two, three... Okay,
so you've gotta get that part of the melody right as anticipation
and the bassline needs to be on the beat.





You can always leave it later on, but let's start there. Then the
next part, F minor, again, we can play whatever we want, but the
original stays on that drone, that pedal point C is F minor over
C, not F minor. Alright... And it's not perfect fourths, that's a
different song. Now can you play that? Sure, you can play
whatever you want, but know the original first, okay? So get the
right bassline.





All right, the third major thing we're gonna fix today is the
changes on the bridge. F sharp half diminished but with that
major ninth. And you gotta know the melody and how it lays. Then
we go to F13 because that's part of the melody, sharp 11. So F#
half diminished with the ninth, natural ninth, F13 sharp eleven,
and now we've got E9 with the flatted fifth. Not... or sharp
nine. I mean, you can play that, but that's not what Herbie
played on the original, on Adam's Apple. And then we got A7 sharp
nine flat 13. Then we got blues comin' down.





Okay, fix those three things and you will be jammin' on Wayne
Shorter's "Footprints." Happy practicing.





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