Difference between AAB and AAB with fills
Fri, 12/12/2014 - 19:51
Hello Instructor, sorry for disturbing you again! Hope you´re doing all right.
Just a little thing that I didn´t get: What´s the difference between the AAB chorus form, and the AAB with fills? In general, they are both the same! right? Because if I do 2 repetitions of the same lick (AA) an then a different one (B), it becomes (AAB) and if I do two reps of the same lick (AA) and then a different one (with 2 measures for example) (B) and then a turnaround I´m doing the same thing!
I saw the Improvising Quick Sheet, and there is no AAB with fills there. I´m a little bit confused, can you help me to understand that?
Thanks
Hello elmocamboharp. I'm doing great, thanks for asking.
The AAB with Fills (Af Af B) is shown in the middle column, bottom, of the Improvising Quick Sheet.
AAB is where an A licks is played and spans 4 Bars. It is then repeated. It then moves away for the V Chord (Bar 9).
Af Af B is where an A lick is played, buy there's more time left in the line, in which a fill lick is played. The next line (Bars 5 through 9) the A is repeated BUT the following fill is not, a NEW fill is played... this is where the difference is. Then the B is played in the last four bars, like in the other. So, the key is that the fills change.