Music Morsel: C.M. Blues

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Listen from 1'10" to 1'37".

Really fantastic use of pedal point. I love the way he interweaves the pentatonic figures and the pedal in the same range.

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Music Morsel: Waterworld 1

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Listen from 3'40" to 4'33".

The bassline really makes this. In particular, the seventh bass note played, the major 3rd, is a great turn that toys with your expectations. The Major 3rd implies a iii chord, borrowed from the parallel major key.

Music Morsels are musical fragments, collected and analyzed.