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You can still achieve a level of play where your music is attractive to the listener and legitimate even if it isn't Jimmy Smith level.
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04-17-2024 05:14 PM
You can still achieve a level of play where your music is attractive to the listener and legitimate even if it isn't Jimmy Smith level.
Mick. My guy. You missed my point entirely. Those were rhetorical questions. Though I’m glad you answered them … Yes they are the same chord when you take away their roots (i.e. they share...
Once it’s in my head I can move them around pretty well, it’s something I’m working on. Usually in my band I try to play in the octave the trumpet isn’t in. So I’ll have to transpose heads around....
Great! I saw that you're up the neck. That's the way to learn the whole thing. Good job! Note that this exercise starts on F and never goes below F. So, if you start working on playing...
Alan, we had this discussion before if you remember: I learned a very similar movement from the Mickey Baker books (IIRC) in the 90ies and have been using it since then all the time: F7 - Gm7 -...
In the 90's, he used to play with a bassist and drummer once a week at a little bar in Occidental, CA (Sonoma County), I saw and spoke to him there a few times. What a career! He played with and...
Sounds awful https://youtu.be/OUYXfCWmVyI?si=kYfJnoN1UzuTlAv_
I do practice soloing. It's the other stuff I don't practice!
ragman, you need to practice soloing instead of all this theoretical pedantry!!
As I'm more interested in how things sound than the written stuff, which I can mess up as we know, here's another way to play over dim chords. In the proverbial kitchen I thought a 7b9 merely was...
As rootless Dom. 7th chords, they have the same notes (enharmonically) and also have the same notes as dim. 7th chords 1/2 step higher. That is: Db(C#)-E(Fb)-G-Bb In practice, I think of them as...
THIS! When dad got our first dog, a German shepherd, we took him to a trainer for about a year, 3 times a week. One of the things the trainer had said was exactly this - when you see something...
It looks very cool. I wouldn’t have identified it as a tricone.
Seriously, Canto da Praya is an old tune? ;) I added that video 1. because no one has ever sung it like Varijashree before and 2. because it's so damn good! Any lack of interest in Brazilian...
no I was just messing around b/c I dislike gold hardware, much as I dislike gold watches
RIP Nick Gravenites
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