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I can't believe that I'm still finding new BG jazz recordings, but I learned about an arranger/composer who wrote some very difficult music in the 50s, and would only use BG or JS for his projects. ...
I don't do other peoples' interpretations, sorry. Besides, I already covered the dotted-quarter-and- eighth-note-as-a triplet scenario. You know, if you actually played this it would become...
Not entirely. If a tune was being played very, very slowly and some of the music was written in 16ths there's a probability it would sound a bit odd if they were played straight in a tune which was...
He meant the triplet swing feel i.e where the first note is longer than the second, usually notated as triplet crotchet and quavers, but, as I and others have already pointed out, in real life proper...
He asked this in the first post: The simple answer to that is that nothing's perfect. So don't bother. But you'll notice that his question contains the words 'triplet swing feel'. You...
Yeah,I steal Ed and Wes licks whenever i can. No one ever catches you. The only guy I ever caught was Lenny Breau. He stole some Tal thing once.
You sure about this? PS he wasn't asking whether triplets were swung. But I see others have already pointed this out to you.
emanresu - The answer to your query is simple. Triplets are not swung, neither is anything above an 8th note, i.e. 16ths, 32nds, etc. A triplet means three beats in the space of two,...
Another jazz musician who paints is multi-instrumentalist Bob Bruno. When he was a kid, he had nightmares of a very dissonant type of music that involved a shrieking tenor sax, and decided to paint...
Yes, everybody plays licks to some extend. You can even hear bebop cliches in Ed Bickert's playing here and there. But if you want to get inside of what made Ed Bickert or Wes Montgomery sound they...
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