I have been working on Friedman Etude No. 7. Going along with the theme of this month's Chord Fest, I add some chord accompaniment to the second repeat.

This is the best take of the night. I am still working on it but wanted to post my progress.

I think if I memorized it, it might be better. Right now, I am not looking much at the keys, so I miss notes. I need to work on my timing too.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Barry

Did this in 13 minutes from when I opened Logic until I started to post it!

One of you guys do one now!

Brazilian music.

With the chords festival, the topic of grooves arose and one of them is brazilian rhythm(s).
I personally lived (in the 80th) some years in Brazil as a professional musician and since then I lead a MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) group and a Batucada (street percussion band), both playing samba, samba reggae, partido-alto, afoxé, maracatu, and bossa-nova , musica-cansão, baião, choro, in addition for the MPB group. I had the opportunity to play with numerous brazilian players and singers during my career and I keep doing so. That’s for my credentials…

this is a free improvisation I did on the 6th of november 2011

Nico, how do we tighten up loose posts?

Hey guys, I've been seeing lots of great posts lately on comping, voicings, duo/solo playing, playing Brazilian music...(that Gary clip with Stan playing Jobim just knocks me out). Here's a clip from a recent gig sort that ties in some of those topics. I'm a hug fan of Jobim and Brazilian music in general. I was in Sao Paulo for about a week and loved it. The people, food, music were all fantastic.