Clip from gig

Soco · #1 06-25-2011, 10:58 PM

This is from a gig with saxophonist Gian Tornatore's groups from a few months back.

YouTube Video

wizard3739 · #2 06-26-2011, 12:35 AM

Soco: Your improv lines are excellent! I think maybe your ear playing is very well- developed, your lines seem to flow and connect very nicely with a very good jazzy tone. I would enjoy hearing more of your music.

wiz

Soco · #3 06-26-2011, 08:27 AM

Thank you Wiz!
The rhythm section was really changing things around underneath my solo so I really tried to use my ear. I remember not feeling too comfortable when I played this song, but it came out ok. I love Gian Tornatores sax solo at the end, he has really become an amazing player.
Thanks again!

markf · #4 06-26-2011, 09:32 AM

following you here for a year or so.

I think you are definitely progressing.

complex, but melodic, and with a groove.

Soco · #5 06-26-2011, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by markf

following you here for a year or so.

I think you are definitely progressing.

complex, but melodic, and with a groove.

Thanks Mark, that means a lot!
I have been working pretty hard on the instrument over the last year and I am lucky to be playing with some really good musicians.

brwnhornet59 · #6 06-26-2011, 11:35 AM

I liked the line you played at 2 mins in. At 2:30 and 2:56 as well. Good job. I kept trying to see what guitar you were playing. i could not quite make it out.

Soco · #7 06-26-2011, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by brwnhornet59

I liked the line you played at 2 mins in. At 2:30 and 2:56 as well. Good job. I kept trying to see what guitar you were playing. i could not quite make it out.

Thanks a lot! I got to go back and re-listen to those section to figure out what I actually played.
The guitar is a Collings soco deluxe which has been my main guitar since November 2008.
Thanks again!

brwnhornet59 · #8 06-26-2011, 11:51 AM

Excellent. T/y for telling me. I really liked the tone. Hey when you figure out what you were doing let me know. =)

markf · #9 06-26-2011, 12:17 PM

Hey when you're on tour with Herbie, don't forget us little guys!

JensL · #10 06-26-2011, 12:39 PM

Good playing! great solo!

Jens

mtierney · #11 06-26-2011, 01:06 PM

What amp? I'd also like to take a moment to agree with brwnhornet59 on those three time-stamps. Those were some excellent sounding phrases. I think they were only as good as they were because of the phrases in the middle though, huge contrast, I don't mean to discredit the parts of your solo that weren't one of those three! Anyways nice playing great tone.

Soco · #12 06-26-2011, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by mtierney

What amp? I'd also like to take a moment to agree with brwnhornet59 on those three time-stamps. Those were some excellent sounding phrases. I think they were only as good as they were because of the phrases in the middle though, huge contrast, I don't mean to discredit the parts of your solo that weren't one of those three! Anyways nice playing great tone.

Hi, thanks, I really appreciate it! There was some parts in the solo that I was trying to get settled with the rhythm section. Those guys are pretty advanced and sometimes change the groove on the spot. Hopefully one day I will be able to play lines like the ones you like throughout the whole solo! I don't really practice lines or licks so sometimes anything can come out. Also I am trying to change up the more complex intervallic lines with more simpler blusey phrases and melodic stuff.
Thanks again!

Soco · #13 06-26-2011, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by JensL

Good playing! great solo!

Jens

thanks a lot Jens!

Soco · #14 06-26-2011, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by brwnhornet59

Excellent. T/y for telling me. I really liked the tone. Hey when you figure out what you were doing let me know. =)

Hi, I am not sure what I am doing, but there might be some intervallic string-skipping stuff going on with some chromatic stuff mixed in.

Soco · #15 06-26-2011, 03:50 PM

The amp is a polytone megabrute by the way. Not long after the gig it broke(for the 2nd time), and I just got it back after getting it fixed.
My favorite amp is a 70's modified princeton, but it is a little to heavy to bring on the subway.

brwnhornet59 · #16 06-26-2011, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Soco

Hi, I am not sure what I am doing, but there might be some intervallic string-skipping stuff going on with some chromatic stuff mixed in.

Yeah, it seems to happen that way. LOL

I used to have a polytone back in the early 80's. Nice amp if memory serves correct. The 80's were a blur for me so i could be wrong..

Soco · #17 06-26-2011, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by brwnhornet59

Yeah, it seems to happen that way. LOL

I used to have a polytone back in the early 80's. Nice amp if memory serves correct. The 80's were a blur for me so i could be wrong..

Lol! You are better off forgetting the 80's!
Polytones aren't the most reliable but they are nice sounding amps.

brwnhornet59 · #18 06-26-2011, 04:10 PM

Done!!!!

Soco · #19 06-26-2011, 11:19 PM

Here is another clip from the same gig:

YouTube Video