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MS Traumwelt t3 by David Friedman

David Friedman 7 July 2009

Hi everybody.
I was asked by one of our ex- students(Can Olgun), who's studying at the moment at Manhattan School of music, to be a guest on his new CD. Here's one of his tunes, calles "MS Traumwelt(translated, Dreamworld). The tune is harmonically interesting and has a fairly complicated solo section. I scratched in my version of the written changes, which I often do to make things easier for myself; for instance, instead of F-/C, I wrote Abmaj.7#11/C). Or, at B, I translated Bmaj.7 #5 as G7alt., because that's how I understood the harmonic movement to the next chord.

Am D7 GMaj7 Bm7b5

BarryK 7 July 2009

I am working on "Somewhere In the Night" by Milton Raskin and Billy May. I first heard it on Cal Tjader's "Soul Sauce" album. See "Check This Out" link. I can't find the sheet music so I am trying to figure out the changes. I stopped listening the recordings and just played some chords that I thought sounded good with the melody. I don't know if I have the changes right or not. I'll work on that more another time. I put these chords into BIAB and started jamming with it. Spent a couple hours tonight. Had fun. Here is a snippet from my jamming and the backing track.

Practicing

tonymiceli 6 July 2009

When I practice it takes me a good hour before I can really start to get somewhere. It seems like for me that that first hour doesn't really even count although i have to do it to get past everything else. Get past what? The day, the crap, the business, the other side of the brain stuff.

I think of that and I want to pass it on. I can't imagine I'm unique, most of us must have this buffer that we have to get past. It's probably important to find out where your buffer ends and make a note of it.

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