those solos look like some serious practice is coming by (again...)
I have the secret wish that Gary may have the time to say a word about it.
If anyone knows them and want to give me some advices, I'll be glad !
Here's the next tune I thought we'd check out and study.
Ed Saindon's 'Life's Blessing'. I asked Ed if he would make a solo recording to get us started. Hopefully he will. Regardless let's all start checking this tune out and talking about it and practicing it like we did with Joe Locke's tune 'Sword of Whisper'.
Maybe Phillipe could make the play along!!!
So download the tune and start working on it. I'm sure Ed will give us a hand and talk about it. Maybe he'd even do an audio lesson for us?
Here we go!
I am still working on Sword of Whispers. I am internalizing it a bit more but my timing and hand independence could use some work. I was trying to keep a pulse in the left hand, using the rhythm of Vince Guaraldi's "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", which is syncopated like Joe's gentle intro in the lead sheet.
I started working on a solo version of "Spring is Here". I am finding it very difficult. I can't think of much to make it sound interesting or good. Any ideas?
I am arpeggiating with mallet 1 2 3 and melody in 4. I am also using drop 2 voicings on the ascending lines. Nothing cohesive yet. Just working on ideas.
It's originally a ballad. What do you think of making it a Bossa Nova or other style?
Here's a PDF with the G half whole scale. It's a scale that outlines a G7 b9 chord. I ask the question what if the chord was a G7 b9 #5, what would the scale be. Write it out and send it to me!
Here's all the Friedman Dampening and Pedaling vids and audio lessons on the site. This a book all of us should work through and master.
If you play any of the etudes not on the list. Please record yourself and post your performance!
I banged this baby out. Really fast. But it looks ok. Let me know where the mistakes are.
But it's a lesson in drop 2 voicings. Now that I know what drop 2 voicings are I see them everywhere! How about choral writing. Big band charts.
I have had an ongoing discussion with the handful of students and friends who have come to me over the years about the nature of what we are doing as jazz musicians, how to study it and how it fits into the whole music in general. Recently, Tony and I were discussing some of this offline and he encouraged me to put this out here in this forum for discussion.
I love that idea.
Ok, I know Barry is a sentimentalist. So I'm going to try and crank out a drop 2 arrangement of 'Oh, Danny Boy'.
Then we should all work on that, solo on it and post it for Jon Daly and Ireland.
Maybe then we need to have a vibe hang with Pints. Although In my house I might have to do Non Alcoholic beer, but I'll still act drunk if you want.
Hopefully tonight I can crank Out Danny Boy in Finale.
Anyway let's see what kind of arrangements we come up with.
Here is a great analysis of the Steely Dan "Mu Major" chord.
http://jmdl.com/howard/steelydan/mu-major.html
I just tried it on the vibes and it sounds cool.
Barry