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Hello everyone,
I just wanted to share my enthousiasm on the program Rhapsody. It's a great program by Realplayer and let's you listen to loads of music(and a lot of jazz) without having to buy cd's or tracks! They have a subscription that is about 12 dollars a month and you can listen to full length tracks unlimited. And the good thing is that you can also download the tracks so you can listen to them offline.
I'm using this now as a tool to get to know a lot of jazz standards. You can search by track name and then you can listen to versions of a tune by many different artists.
The conversation that recently took place regarding improvising on the blues has given me food for thought for a blog. I think intellectualizing music through analysis is a good thing if fully understood. The process of analyzing music helps to teach and learn new things about music and often helps to find weaknesses and holes in our knowledge.
I was having some thoughts on transcribing so I thought I'd post them here.
So I was transcribing the Steve Nelson solo on Beautiful Love today and I remembered some guys here talking about programs to slow down music to transcribe and stuff like that.
My thoughts on that are that you shouldn't even want to use that kind of stuff to transcribe.
I love Steve Nelson. He has played a lot(and think he still does) with Dave Holland's band.
Check Nelson on Wikipedia:
Hi!
For many years I am studying a guitar instruction book. This ia a sample of an advanced comping for guitar over a Bb-blues .
The author says that "every soloist will be gratful for this kind of comping" so I recorded the guitar for playing solo with the vibes - for download mp3 check the link:
http://cid-a149cbdffbb2d320.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Vibesworkshop/Bb|_Blues.mp3
I have some old Good Vibes mallets that are warped out of line about 3/16". I have newer Mike Balter mallets that have a slight curve also so I am assuming this happens with all mallets.
Do you try straightening them (steam them?), play with them as-is or go out and buy new ones.
Thanks,
Barry
Several years ago 1980's, I did a lot of transcribing. I found a great way was to start in the beginning of the Jazz Era and work your way up. We had a great library in Pasadena, CA and I checked out a bunch of early jazz from around early 1900s starting with "Cylinder Jazz" (before vinyl recording were done on wire and cylinder) and started transcribing melodies that were descendants of slaves' field chants.
Yo guys,
I thought I'd post here about the pivot chords modulation video.
First TJ I would love if you made up some lessons around that video. That video is more of an advanced topic. Usually when a guy knows a bunch of tunes. These modulations are really only a way to play tunes and have them modulate into different keys in a cool way.
Maybe also try taking one section and play it and stop and take notes, make up a lead sheet and put the modulation there.
Bill Evans did this a lot and that's what got me interested in it.
John Piper's essay on swinging.