Hey Guys,
It's been a while since I have visited the site and I believe there are so many new members... Man this site is amazing and growing even more and more. (btw Tony congrats and the one year+ anniversary).
Tifoo sent me this video. this guy sounds good!
Multi Part lesson of the standard Invitation.
First off, the title is a bait-and-switch. The Beatles aren't mentioned in any substance until the last chapter of the book. The book is really about its subtitle: "An Alternative History of American Popular Music", and judged on that content it's a great read. It covers the American popular music scene in loving detail from about 1890 through 1970, with colorful anecdotes, musical analysis, movers and shakers behind the scenes, and thoughtful analysis of the economic, social and technical factors behind many of the changes in popular music.
The A Train study is an in depth look at a tune. Tunes unlock secrets to harmony and improvising. In a way, a tune is a well thought out solo! A prepared one! And in a way a solo is a quickly conceived melody over a tune. That's not quite true but you get the idea.
The A train study is a way to really work through this tune and learn the nuances, see what you can take over to your improvisation and work on your chords, chord melodies and solo playing.
Over the last few days, Tony and I have exchanged several emails discussing several CD’s we both grew up with, including two of Gary’s that are currently out of print – Easy As Pie and Picture This. And as one might imagine, one idea leads to another and eventually there are a bunch of theories that beg for clarification. Among those are the inner workings of ECM Records.
So it's official with my new phone. I wussed out and got a Palm Pre instead of cancelling Sprint and getting the Iphone. The Pre however so far is really cool. It might not quite hang with the Iphone but it's up there.
It took me a week, but I moved all my data to Google. That means my life lives in the cloud now. The cloud is what geeks call that area where we have all our data and we don't quite know where it is, but it's there. If you use flikr for your photos then your photos are in the cloud.
