When I think about improvisation, I think about a way of life, a concept about the "moment", not just something I do in the evening in front of an audience for one or two hours.
There's something VERY wrong with this video. Can you see it?
I was experimenting with dampening the two inner voices of chords, inspired by Joe Locke's video "Intros Part 1" and heard the song Laura when I lowered the inner two voices a 1/2 step.
Joe talks about an intro to play over tunes.
Here are some pdf files I find usefull when I'm trying to organize my practice time. The problem with practicing when you don't have all the time in the world, like most of us, is that you often don't know what to practice and also keeping track of what you've done and what you haven't done is sometimes difficult.
The pdf files I included here are lists that I use to keep track of technical exercises that need to be repeated to show some progress. Below is how I use these:
Scales.pdf
Hi Everyone!
I'm kind of new to this post thing but I'll give it a try ;)
I thought it would be interesting to share with you what I've been going through these past weeks. I recently injured my right hand and I haven't been able to play with that hand for 3 weeks now.
I was talking to Tony the other day and I told him that in a way I was glad this happened because I have been able to do things that I wasn't really paying too much attention before.
Here are some of the things I've been working on:
So when I was in college I came up with this plan that really helped me. It's a little over the top, but it could be a good guide for some of us.
In school it helped me keep the music going. Even after I graduated I kept this going and it helped me, I think stay in the business.
Here it goes, first:
Ear Training: 1 hour equals 2
Practicing: 1 hour equals 1 hour
Listening: 1 hour equals 1.5 hours
Jamming and gigging: 1 hour equals 3
doing music business stuff: 1 hour equals, .5 hours
teaching: 1 hour equals 1 hour
last night i had some time welll not really time ..lol ..instead of watching tv i mess with my recording studio... so i imported the portland session into the program and remixed it.
musicians on session
T Macaoidh Vibraphone
David Valdez, alto sax
Michael Pappillo, Bass
Ken OLLis, drums
Tracks areL
AFterThought.. Tmacaoidh circa 2002
A lotis on Irish STreams... BIRD OF FIRE
all are first takes .. 100 percent sighting reading ... oh yess i was an afternoon in the laboratory...
jah bless
Here's a prerequisite for the Shapes and Patterns of Music sight reading. My recommendation is to play these exercises as fast as you can but start at the beginning no matter how proficient you already are. If it's too easy, play it faster!