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Life's Blessings - steve yeager's take

steve yeager 15 March 2009

Here’s my take on ed’s tune “lifes blessing”
In my mind this piece has so many beautiful sections I really ended up mixing up sections to give me what I was going for – which was more of a “church” feeling – looping for example a line cliche idea that turns around using the C/G – D/F# cadence of mm14-15 for a solo/vamp section.
I also liked extending and looping mm 26 – 27 idea to give the ends more push, throwing a Ab maj7#11 substitute for the A-/G on the last times.

I start the piece in 3 and use the 2/5 at mm18/19 to get into 4/4 for the rest of the piece. I restate the melody for the head out in a pretty skeleton form, working again towards the melody at mm20.

So lots of line cliché ideas, which follows ed’s compositional style here, also octave displacement of the melody etc

I didn’t make it to church today – instead I worked on this and posted it – so I think I get special dispensation : )

Audio File Downloads
lifes blessings.mp3

Comments

tifoo Sun, 03/15/2009 - 16:56

that was moving (émouvant)!
Your Clichés gave me the creeps Steve !

Marie-Noëlle Mon, 03/16/2009 - 13:33

I'm with you Tifoo!

Moving.

Steve, you may not have shared with people in the church, but you brought something of great value to us all.

Thanks.

MN

ed saindon Mon, 03/16/2009 - 08:11

Hi Steve,

How are you?

I really enjoyed that. It created a nice reflective mood which is what I wanted the composition to emote. Thanks for taking on the tune and giving us your take on it. I'm sure you put a lot of thought into it. I also liked the sound of the vibes. Very round and full which is a big plus in playing this type of tune. I dig the laid back tempo. Some nice rubato things going on at certain cadence points which makes it more dramatic. Keith Jarrett is a master at that. Talking about Keith, everyone should check out Keith's recording The Melody at Night, With You. It's one of my favorite recordings. It's a solo recording that he recorded it at his home after he was recuperating from his illness. He originally set out to record it as a present to his wife but ECM ended up putting it out. There's a gorgeous version of "Shendandoah" on there as well as so many other beautiful renditions of classic tunes. It would be a great example for all vibists to check out.

So Steve, although you missed church yesterday, you did a very good thing. Bless you son.

Father Ed

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