Other guitarist in this group I'm hanging around with really loves Zappa. That's awesome. So we're trying some Zappa tunes. Trouble Everyday is pretty straightforward. But this one...Black Napkins...man is it ever throwing me for a loop. I cannot piece together any coherent phrases for it.
It seems so simple: C#m7 > Dmaj7
That's it.
But those two chords fail to find sympatico ideas in my mental library of licks and phrases. I fumble around like a child trying to figure out their first toy.
Help me out here. What's a good way to approach this? How did Frank tackle such simple chords with such amazing, expansiveness?
For the unfamiliar:
It seems so simple: C#m7 > Dmaj7
That's it.
But those two chords fail to find sympatico ideas in my mental library of licks and phrases. I fumble around like a child trying to figure out their first toy.
Help me out here. What's a good way to approach this? How did Frank tackle such simple chords with such amazing, expansiveness?
For the unfamiliar: