Beat the Heat with this Descending 5ths Wes Line from "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
In the midst of a heat wave affecting two thirds of the country this week, and in the midst of my guitar-hammond organ obsession, I decided to transcribe this cool line by Wes Montgomery. This entire month I've been heavily rotating his album with Jimmy Smith, "The Dynamic Duo," and this is the second to last track on the album. The line features descending 5th intervals over a minor ii-V progression. Though the net movement is downwards, you can also hear ascending 4th intervals to set up the following descending 5th- I think the 4th interval is what really makes this line sound cool.
I love this whole album, everything from the cover to the monster technique of these music legends. The second half of Wes's solo is worth checking out too, his octave playing :)
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