Continue to work on Donna lee:

Quarter notes -> then adding 8th notes
considering a logical approach
practicing in different keys
Chords -> in quarter notes
Chordal solo
One voicing for each chord (4 note voicing)
W/o root on dom chord
Consider the use of root notes
Voice leading
Traditional language

Assignment:

one chorus of quarter notes (logical approach)
second chorus of Simple solo

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延續上次的Donna Lee

The short answer is that it isn't just that they make you louder. They do make you a bit louder, but loudness is a psychoacoustic phenomenon. There is more to it than just that. In the Saturday session I mentioned the principle of acoustic masking. That's a big piece of it.

Post in the shout by bradrumlv.

This is a beautiful arrangement!

Once through the Intro and melody on vibes, then vocals with iReal running. This is pretty much the way our old folks band, the Second Winds, usually plays, first the melody, then vocals, then various instruments taking a ride on the melody. The timing glitches and other glitches are evident in the vibes section. Listening to yourself in recording makes sense, but can be painful. The lyrics have been greatly changed, apologies to Lorenz Hart. The original lyrics may have made more sense in the context of the Broadway play where this music first appeared.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTarH3B5U2s&list=PL-vFGfMIOcNq2Q48Fd140…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phThwIPVcX4
There are two videos, one is donna lee transcription on tony's audio file that he sent us, the other one is a regular solo vibes video.

Today's coffee hour conversation touched down on this twice, once during the discussion of mallet hardness (pretty universal agreement that music not heard is music not good) and again during the discussion about the role of lyrics. These are concepts I have been wrestling with for years and my ideas are not yet fully formed, but let me know what you think~

I believe there are four modalities of the sound we create with our instruments.

Our next Pop Up Class is this Wednesday and we will talk about the Diminished Scale.

This ties in with our last class which was on "Have You Met Miss Jones". All the dominant chords in this tune are 13 b9 chords. That's the diminished scale. So we will talk about this this week and then the following week we will do an online performance where we will each try our hand at "Miss Jones"!

If you want to attend the class make sure you are a paying subscriber and email me me your user name and your email address (Which of course is in the email heading!)

The tool I used for this (Insight) is part of Izotope's mastering suite of software. This is not its normal use, but it provides a nice visualization of acoustic energy in real time across the frequency spectrum. Something went awry with the way that Quicktime did the screen capture, so by the end of the video, the waveforms are appearing significantly later and out of sync with the sound, but you will be able to still associate them and see the differing harmonic content. The frequency is represented along the bottom of the graph.