by Bill Evans
I’m amazed by how few views this Gary Burton solo has on YouTube, given his incredible clarity, restraint, command, and beauty with one of Bill Evan’s more (if not most) challenging ballads. The vibe sound is, well, gorgeous!!
Hymne a L'amour - simply beautiful song sung and made famous by the great French vocalist Edith Piaf. The lyrics were written by Piaf and the music by Marguerite Monnot. It was written for the love of her life, the French boxer, Marcel Cerdan. On October 28, 1949, Cerdan was killed in a plane crash on his way from Paris to New York to come to see her. She recorded the song on May 2, 1950.
I'm using some reharm here and there as well as a modulation for the last A section of the song.
Probably should have called this "Getting Bluesy", but I think of it as "Getting Church". African American Church musicians are some of the funkiest, bluesiest best players I have ever seen. It's incredible what some people get out of church. I would never have gotten that kind of musicality out of my church. The music was lame as I remember.
I'm not even religious, but I have gone by some churches and wanted to go in and listen and watch really bad!
So.... Get Church.
So it's pretty funny to me. I was messing around with this Cannonball Adderley tune, "Things Are Getting Better". I was recording it to listen back and check my stuff out. I got done and thought, 'that wasn't so bad, I should post it'. I listened back a little bit later and forgot my dryer was on. I'm so used to it, I don't think about it.
I practice in my basement, which is also my studio for making audio and video for Vibesworkshop. It's great. Not a big deal, but I wish the washer and dryer was somewhere else!
Download the MP3 of my composition where I layered all percussion elements, with Randy Roos on guitars. This concept tune features several tabla solos in different rhythm cycles and structures (binary and ternary).
Analysis of Polymeters (balafon lessons 1–5):
3:2 0:00 – 0:12 (basic)
3:2 0:12 – 0:47 (syncopated)
4:3 0:47 – 1:46
5:3 1:46 – 3:00
7:3 3:00 – 3:53
5:4 3:53 – 4:36
7:4 4:36 – 5:28
3:2 5:28 – end