Thought you guys might want to see this. pretty cool stuff.
Your last assignment for the semester:
Pick an etude out of the Friedman: Dampening and Pedaling book and post it here. David Friedman will comment on your posts.
@Harvey - What's the due date?
Ok, let's close this up. There are a lot of lessons now about chords and harmony. For those of you who studied I'm sure you learned a ton.
So now demonstrate it. Work on a tune for a couple days and post something. Play chord melody, play solo, whatever but put it to good use and apply it while it's fresh.
Let's move on to the other side of all this and that's the line.
Post your 'final' here!
I think I've posted this before but I'm not sure. This would make a great EOTM (Exercise of the Month). Might not be as easy as it looks. The left hand plays the double stops.
This piece is the 1st movement from Bach's violin sonata # 1. There's lots of opportunity for mallet dampening. The goal is to get it to sound full and resonant, but very clean. As you move from chord to chord use good dampening and/or pedaling to make sure no notes from the previous chord ring into the current chord; making it sound sloppy.
The tempo is really slow, with an 8th note set to about 50 on the metronome. A pdf of the manuscript is included HERE
Brazilian music.
With the chords festival, the topic of grooves arose and one of them is brazilian rhythm(s).
I personally lived (in the 80th) some years in Brazil as a professional musician and since then I lead a MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) group and a Batucada (street percussion band), both playing samba, samba reggae, partido-alto, afoxé, maracatu, and bossa-nova , musica-cansão, baião, choro, in addition for the MPB group. I had the opportunity to play with numerous brazilian players and singers during my career and I keep doing so. That’s for my credentials…
More questions on comping.
1. What rhythms should you use? There are all of the charleston variations. Stride quarter note feel. Then there is the modern broken rhythms like you hear Chick and Herbie use a lot. But when and where do you play these?
It's funny. I don't even know the Charleston variations! You know I just bought some cd's and listened to a few of the guys play and tried to imitate it. Then since then I just kept listening to things and picking up things. My advice is just listen to a few of the stride players and then try and recreate it on the vibes.