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Soulflakes by BarryK

I have been studying Dana's Soulflakes for the past week or so.

Here is my solo arrangement, based on my own transcription of Dana and Marie's beautiful version. I am playing this from memory.

Also attached is a version with Band-in-a-Box, that I am mainly using as a metronome, as I have difficulty keeping time without it.

Barry

My Cherie Amor by the Dana Sudborough Quartet

Here's another scratch recording from a recent gig at a flight museum. Towards the end you can hear some adults (jeez) playing with a remote control helicopter in the big hall of jets we were playing in. Anyway, band was great! Too bad I missed the cue by the piano player to go to the intro coming out of my solo.

Dana Sudborough - eVibe
Brian Piper - piano
Jonathan Fisher - bass
Andrew Griffith - drums

Two Great Examples of Playing Solo

Check out these 2 versions of playing solo! Very interesting to me because they are very very different in there approach. Ted's is always a laid back approach and he has some great dampening technique down that he uses quite effortlessly. Patrice is a great classical player that does a great job crossing over into jazz. He's got some serious chops happening and his approach is really great.

I dug so much listening to both these guys back to back. They're both really worth studying and listening and watching.

Great stuff guys!