Jazz The Lick

[altissimo]

have you played The Lick? -

http://youtu.be/krDxhnaKD7Q

 

[aldevis]

have you played The Lick? -

http://youtu.be/krDxhnaKD7Q

Never. I swear. It is the kind of lick I could use, but never play it, and now I hope I never will

 

[jbtsax]

Somebody has way too much time on his hands.

 

[rudjarl]

Avoiding that 'lick' (and I use the word lick in the broadest way possible) is like avoiding using the letters 're' and 'ne', or better yet, playing a sax solo without a sax.

 

[Tenor Viol]

Given the note sequence (tonic, 2nd, b3rd, 4th, down to 2nd, down to b7th, up to tonic) I can understand why it's common - it's just a decoration around the tonic and given that a common cadential sequence would be I IIB V7 I that lick pretty well covers off those chords.