Deep Purple

Improvised Piano Solo

by Doug McKenzie

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Series of 11th voicings follow melody down chromatically

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Play melody notes twice as 16th notes instead of once as 8th notes

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Half/whole dim scale on C7

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Same idea as trill above - this time a tremolo in RH with LH counter melody

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More RH tremolo - but this time the Left Hand

plays walking bass line but in treble 3register

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Strong 12/8 feel briefly

Melody notes with 4th voicing Easy to finger descending run on

each approached with similar voicing above.
Gb dim chord - start on 2nd finger

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On Eb7 2 notes (Eb&Db) alternate

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with A7 (A&G) in triplet rhythm

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Another half/whole dim run on C7

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A pedal tone (C) on 'ands' in Left Hand

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More RH tremolos - this time LH plays melody

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