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ahh..working on the Coltrane solo..so well constructed..wish there was an interview of him telling of his approach to this tune
Originally Posted by kris
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10-17-2025 05:43 PM
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I'm practising my comping, obsessively.
I feel that when playing in a duo or small group you are judged by your comping ability, not by your single line prowess.
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Stolen Moments
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That’s a great one. Originally Posted by Njt3
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These past few days I have been alternating practicing classical and jazz music for an hour each back and forth. For jazz I'm now zoning in on autumn leaves, I think I did everything I could except transcribe solos of that tune. The Cannonball solo I'm doing well so far but there is that part that is hard to do precise which is 3:10-3:20
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"but there is that part that is hard to do precise which is 3:10-3:20" Originally Posted by jazznylon
That's cool, would make a good sweep picking exercise.
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Breezin’
I heard it on a TV show and it’s just a killer groove.
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always something new to learn
A Herbie Hancock tune I was not familiar with-Tell Me A Bedtime Story
Wonderful changes...
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Sidewinder, I learned it by reading and it’s gone.
Warmed up with some Kamihigashi examples. Finally started chapter 2.
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Mainly I practice tunes for jam sessions, sometimes ones I'd like to call and sometimes ones that have been called by others. For the past couple of weeks, I've been practicing Like Someone in Love and On the Sunny Side of the Street, with my usual routine to get the melody under my fingers and then gradually picking up the pace to play it at tempo with iReal. Once I have that down reasonably well, I play around with it, using iReal with fretless bass and drums only, no piano, and without the position indicator that highlights each measure. I try to get to a seamless alternating between melody, comping and ad-lib, trading fours with myself, doing chord soloing, etc., up and down the neck as I internalize it. To me, iReal is something like a metronome but it's a little more fun to play along with. When I get relatively fluent in melody, comping and ad-lib, I'll give it a whirl at a session.
Sometimes, a new tune gets called that catches my ear and I'll start to practice it. The first time I did that was years ago, when I fell in love with Beatrice after a trumpet player called it at a jam, and I've been playing it ever since. Most recently, someone called Ornithology at a less than breakneck tempo, it was actually more like a joint practice tempo than at full tempo, but it was fun to play along with it that way all the same, sight comping and doing a modest ad-lib, with a good natured spirit for the sake of mutual learning. The next day I practiced fingerings for the theme in two octaves, and enjoyed it. However, the way that I hear it usually played online or records is likely beyond my physical capabilities. But I do enjoy playing the theme and will practice it a bit in the event that it gets called again at a practice level tempo, now that I know participants are OK with that at this session venue.
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I like to playing Ornithology as part of my solo over How High The Moon. That’s typically called slower.
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Great idea, thank you. I’ll give that a try! Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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Going through Steven Down’s lessons on Burrell’s Midnight Blue, very rewarding.
Alternating with Wolf Marshall’s Four on Six, played it in the old trio but I’m enjoying fine tuning with his xscription from Smokin’ at the Half-Note.
Basically just working on tunes and reading.
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Cut my fingertip yesterday, no practice for a few days. Wear gloves then you use tools guys.
I was able to stop the bleeding with superglue and finish putting the receptacle in.
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Yikes! Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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thats sucks I have done the same. Originally Posted by AllanAllen
it really sucks. : (
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I am working on Chega de Saudade (No More Blues). I've spent a week just getting the melody. Just started learning the 2nd chorus melody for the A and B sections. Ridiculous amount of syncopation. It doesn't help that I put my metronome's click on the downbeat of 1 every bar... And for much of the tune, the phrases start on the 3& or 4& and are tied across the barline...The click hardly syncs with the melody!
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Why not put the click on 2 & 4 until you have it down?
Incrementally up the challenge.
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Trying to build a steady internal clock
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Practice pad, drum sticks, a metronome and a copy of Stick Control For The Snare Drummer. Originally Posted by brent.h
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The Reasonably Large Band I play in is doing Michael Buble's Big Band cover of Van Morrison's "Moondance" -- not positive but I think the bass part was played by John Patitucci? [EDIT: I'm wrong, it's Brian Bromberg] -- so I'm reading down a transcription of his part. It's almost all walking quarter notes, except for the occasional hits/stabs to double the excellent horn writing. But man, there are some choice notes that seem to pop out of nowhere and really turn the harmony on its head! The arrangement is credited to David Foster and John Clayton...stellar writing, turns what is often a tired, static, clichéd cover into a genuinely exciting jazz chart.
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Last night I decided to practice the song 'Bluesette' for the first time in quite a while. I started in the same way that I always start in practising a tune, playing the chords - specifically grabbing them on beats one and three while the metronome only appears on the second beat (it's in 3/4 for anyone unfamiliar with it). I'm out of practice in doing this so it was an enjoyable challenge. I played the chords for twenty minutes then moved onto playing the arpeggios in the continuous-arpeggio-exercise way where you pick a position and switch the arpeggio whenever the harmony changes, rather than going back to the root for each chord. This I did for twenty minutes and then the next twenty minutes were for doing the same thing except with scales over each chord. Then I just practised playing over a backing track for a bit. I think I have an etude I've written for this tune some years ago - I'll dig it out later today.
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Reposting this because it's so inspiring, useful and informative.
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atm. I am trying to nail a randomly thrown(random key) D7b9 and play the proper alt scale for it.
It is harder than a #9 was. A month in and still it cheats it's key often.
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Repertoire for Thursdays gig.
three new tunes
It’s only a paper moon
When Lights Are Low
Lullaby of the Leaves
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