Just from my practice sessions. I was just messing around with the changes from 'I Loves You Porgy'.
Here's some of the stuff I've been practicing. I don't have this quite down and might never! It's an almost impossible etude for me to practice!
Just thought I'd post this as well!
Here's a great Friedman Vid. Dave wrote the book 'Dampening and Pedaling'. He's one of the major players on the scene and has a very very unique sound on the instrument. I have always totally admired his lines, his comping, geez (to use a palin term) his playing!!!
What's extra great about this vid is there's no drums, you can really here him clearly and hear him comp rhythmically. Really cool stuff!
So when I was in college I came up with this plan that really helped me. It's a little over the top, but it could be a good guide for some of us.
In school it helped me keep the music going. Even after I graduated I kept this going and it helped me, I think stay in the business.
Here it goes, first:
Ear Training: 1 hour equals 2
Practicing: 1 hour equals 1 hour
Listening: 1 hour equals 1.5 hours
Jamming and gigging: 1 hour equals 3
doing music business stuff: 1 hour equals, .5 hours
teaching: 1 hour equals 1 hour
This is an original by me. Thought I'd post it. If there's something I miss, it's just coming up with stuff. I don't consider myself a composer, but I do write tunes. If had my own music school (wait, I sort of do don't I?) 2 hours of the day would be for students to sit and write stuff. Just come up with things.
2 hours would be ear training, 4 hours (in 2, 2 hour blocks) would be playing in an ensemble and 2 hours would be listening and 2 for theory. It would be 6 days a week.
Glad I got that off my chest!
So going along with with tmacoids great posts I thought I would post some tunes.
I love playing rock tunes. These are MY standards, the tunes I grew up with, and they have a lot of meaning to me. There are many ways to play these tunes. Some guys like to alter the changes and mess with the harmony. I thing there's a whole musical world to discover by playing the tunes as is and developing that harmony organically. Just my thought.
last night i had some time welll not really time ..lol ..instead of watching tv i mess with my recording studio... so i imported the portland session into the program and remixed it.
musicians on session
T Macaoidh Vibraphone
David Valdez, alto sax
Michael Pappillo, Bass
Ken OLLis, drums
Tracks areL
AFterThought.. Tmacaoidh circa 2002
A lotis on Irish STreams... BIRD OF FIRE
all are first takes .. 100 percent sighting reading ... oh yess i was an afternoon in the laboratory...
jah bless