Tadd Dameron's Hot House - using motives

[raal]

Coming from the bass world, motives seem like a natural thing to me. In a minor ii v context which this tune has 3, looked for multiple applications of the (9/8/5/m3/2/1) lick.

Do you use other pre-defined licks or patterns across different harmonic contexts? Some examples?

[joelf]

1:36:

[joelf]

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Couldn't help myself---carry on with the good work...

[raal]

Ha! I'm not a big movie watcher but that was funny.

I didn't come up with that term, Dan Haerle did!

http://https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Motives-Method-Developing-Vocabulary/dp/1562242911

[joelf]

He kinda Haerled it at you---and you Haerled it right back at us...

[sgosnell]

The words motive and motif are sometimes conflated.

[raal]

looking at the thesaurus definition, I agree the word "motif" is more appropriate in this case

noun
a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.
a distinctive and recurring form, shape, figure, etc., in a design, as in a painting or on wallpaper.
a dominant idea or feature:Pulmonary problems were a grim motif in his life.
Biochemistry. a distinct pattern of amino acids in a function-specific protein sequence:No polyproline motif has been observed in these yeast proteins.