I happened upon this You Tube clip commemorating Victor Feldman's posthumous induction into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. A fitting tribute to a musical genius and icon who was removed from us too young.
I have not been playing much lately (which is not really making me happy)...but anyway, I grabbed a few minutes and was thinking about the Stride Blues stuff that Tony & Ed had done. So I propped up my iPhone, and made a little video. The thing works great for these kind of practice videos! Thank you guys, for the inspiration...
Raphael is going to be posting etudes on the site, one a month for subscribers. Here's the first one! He's putting it in Sibelius and as soon as it's done I'll get it on the site.
But check this etude out. This cat can play!!
Here's an etude written by Simon working on his left hand.
I think it's great that David has his students write etudes to work on the technique!!
Check out Simon's monster left hand.
Sorry to re-surface this lesson but for some reason it was listed as "new" in my posts and when I checked on it the accompanying PDF was missing. Just thought I would fix it.
I always tell my students to transcribe Cliffords solo, especially the first 2 or 3 solos. It's a masterpiece!
Rafael Meinhart is a student of David Friedman's. He wanted to work on technical things and asked what he should practice. David said write your own studies. So Rafael did. Check this one out. It's great!
I just did a simple lesson on this and here's this cat taking it to the extreme.
Check out David Friedman's new piece 'Bettina Dreams of the Garden of Elves'. It's an epic piece and we'll be selling it Feb. 1, 2010 in our new store www.store.jazzimprovonline.com.
And especially check out David's student Julius Heise. He's a great young player with a GREAT teacher!
Are you guys familiar with Lenny Tristano? He's the head of this whole subculture in music. A really interesting bop player. A monster! His lines were incredible.
He's a guy worth checking out although there's not a ton out by him.
A few guys were in that 'school' of thought and one was Warne Marsh. Here's a Warne Marsh excercise.
Just a reminder not to spend an inordinate amount of time on technique, and to think of musical ways to practice technique. After all the goal is to make music. That should be part of your practice routine! There are ways to incorporate technical practice in a musical way!