OK this was a hard one work out for me. It took a while and a lot of work. I wanted to keep the quarter note pulse for the whole tune!

Here's a version of Lush Life from a while back. I was working on 2 things here. You'll here the octaves as soon as the main melody starts and you'll hear me going into the stride stuff after a while.

Here's an old version of Beautiful Love. I remember working and studying this tune. It's really fun to play.

This is a version of Donna Lee (rom the archives). I do studies of tunes sometimes and really work on ways to play them solo. I remember working hard on Donna Lee to work out ways to play it. Check it out.

Good food and I usually have a great bass player with me!! 11 till 3.

I'll be performing with 'Meg and the Cliftones'

Meg Clifton - vocals
Tony Miceli - Vibes
Kevin Hanson - Guitar
Jim Stager - Bass
Erik Johnson - Drums

We take old rock tunes and play them in a jazz format.

I never heard about a technique that I just thought of and tried out.

I was playing a line and let the last note ring out. I took my open palm over that note and fluttered it up and down to get a tremolo. This is analogous to what a harmonica player does with his hands. Sounds cool.

I couldn't find any references to this technique on the web. Tony mentioned that he knows about others that have done this and used their mouths going whaa whaa whaa over the note after you hit it.

I'd be interested about hearing more about this technique (using hand or mouth).

My 7 year old daughter sometimes watches me practice and saw me creating a tremolo by moving my hand up and down over a vibrating bar (like a harmonica player would do to create tremolo). She wanted to experiment with a technique that she came up with by creating tremolo with the damper pedal. She agreed to letting me video tape her demonstration.

Does anyone actually use this technique?

Barry

This is simply a work book that offers something to work on if you're intermediate or beginning level at chord studies.