"Blues with a Shuffle Feel" - Some experimentation tonight with a left hand "boogie woogie" pattern on a blues.
It's the most famous "pop" song every written so I had to do it.
You play the head then we trade 2 choruses and then you play and then take the melody out.
You know the drill. This is the tune Four.
You write in the chords, study my voicings.
Are they rootless?
What parts of the chords are there.
Then play it.
The second chorus is a simple solo outling the harmony.
"I'll Remember April" - a little shedding in the basement studio after a full day of teaching online. The past two days of teaching have been great. Everyone called in at the designated time and we were off and running. Especially amazing since they were calling from all over the world (Hong Kong, Columbia, Portugal, Paris,...) Wonderful seeing all of the students and seeing how they are doing with everything that's been happening. We covered a lot of material and I think the rest of the semester will be very productive.
Annie is my girlfriend. We live together. she is a very good classical flute player. We sight read together a lot...... and she laughs at me sometimes. My sight reading is not that good.
This post is during the time of the Corona Virus, maybe by the end of this, I'll be a much better sight reader. We will see.
So, I've attached the duet part. Practice it and play along with annie! You can get a chance to be in my shoes!
You can listen here to both parts.
Down load the other file which is just one part and then add your part.
Any questions let me know.
“Tea For Two” - an impromptu run through tonight of this classic that I haven’t played for years. Helps maybe a little bit playing music for a brief respite of thinking what’s going on in the world right now. Thoughts and hope for everyone out there. It is affecting us all. :(
