In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

I’ve been spending a little time every day with Simply Piano, and it’s been a really positive experience that’s gotten me well on my way to ... it was hard! You also can't skip ahead ...

The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled ...

Applause ] [ Piano riff plays ... Woman ♪ [ Applause ] Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. [ Scats ] From my new album. [ "Sunshine of Your Love" plays ...

she proves you wrong by throwing in a key change at the end. Here’s Gaga embracing Cass Elliot-style sunshine pop, albeit with a modern edge. It makes sense that this is one of my favorite ...

Like a scene out of a movie, a 5-year-old Ayers boogie’d so hard at a Lionel Hampton concert that the vibraphonist handed Ayers his first pair of mallets. “At the time, my mother and father ...

Originally a practitioner of hard bop ... Loves the Sunshine,” a Ubiquity track from 1976, became a ubiquitous sample in the 1990s after being featured in Mary J. Blige’s “My Life.” ...

His 1976 track “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” has been sampled nearly 200 times by major artists including Dr Dre, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and Mary J Blige. And the electric piano hook off ...

“Even in the last stages of her disease, she was able to sing and remember some of the words of Stardust and Always [by Irving Berlin] when I played them on the piano ... sunshine. Make You Feel ...