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So I decided to do a clip to see where I"m at on this tune. Tweeked the backing track to a tempo I could play, set up the recording and did it without any real practice. But forgot to press "record" (details!) so tried again, adjusted the audio levels, and got this. I'm reminded of a passage from the Bible, "As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly..."
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04-17-2024 02:36 PM
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Lawson that was fine for the first time run through and you did not seem terribly stressed. I do think I could sense you did not necessarily feel like you were ready to smoke the tempo out. I figure at 200 BPM clean and smooth is doable for sure and at least not slow. Today I just finished a practice session and better than usual. Like you pulled out the guitar that is more respectable. I took the 49 New Yorker and believe it or not I actually turned the wheels on the bridge just a little to lower the action. I would imagine I have not touched that in years. The warmer temps I believe might be the reason. Not measurable but just a slight take down was the trick.
So, to the tune today I started at BIAB 160, 170, 180, 190. The 190 was pretty decent but takes all my concentration to get it right. That said today the door might be open to get somewhere. Realizing that once you get to the goal 200 bpm, we are like Augustine and " hearts are restless until they rest in God," I will want to push to 210.
Possibly someone will wake me from the dream.
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Originally Posted by deacon Mark
At one point I'd also learned Bird's solos on DL and could play them fairly well at a pretty decent tempo.
Here's that from about March 2020
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I play the head at 314bpm. I used to be able to play it at 332bpm, but i fractured my pinky.
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I’ve been playing it mostly with three fingers for a dare. It works
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Wow I'd love to see that! Could you post a clip? I think it would be exciting to see. Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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I think the take I posted on the first page of this thread is almost all 3 fingers...it does work! Originally Posted by Christian Miller
I need to revisit this one. Maybe this is my next document some practice type thread I start here. Glad this came back up!
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The bit I like to use my pinky on are those little twiddles Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
Inner urge is good with three fingers too. I’m going to do 26-2 next. All the jazz kiddie favourites.
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Not quite played in yet, but when it’s reliable I will post. Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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I could get behind a 4 bars a week study group. Learn and analyze the head bit by bit. Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Oooohhhh I would start this. Originally Posted by AllanAllen
Bebop head study group. Four bars a week max.
sounds awesome
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Let's do it. Whoever wants to start, go for it...or I can.
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Sheryl Bailey on playing fast:
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Every time I hear Sheryl Bailey speak, I’m struck by the notion that she might be the hippest person on planet earth.
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I found her "Power of 3" album in a box of my CDs today (great album, hadn't listened to it in years) and wondered what she's been up to lately - which led me to YouTube, etc.
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Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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I'm not even relaxed when I'm lying down watching tv. I'll never be fast.
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Sheryl's video is a little confusing; in jazz the beats per minute figure implies eighths with respect to "how fast". "140" as bpm is 2.33 quarter notes per second in 4/4, so 4.66 eighths per second in 4/4. Her "140" was sixteenths at 9.33 notes per second, which would be jazz eighths at 280bpm.
I just mention this because she encourages us to discover our own tempo at which tension arises. If you know you can play at 140 subdivided as sixteenths, you don't want to sit out at 280 because it is "twice as fast".
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True, she said it was an 8th note study and then proceeded to play 16th notes - but the same principle applies. Originally Posted by pauln
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you need to go out more often Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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I most certainly do not. Originally Posted by djg
I used to go see her play at Bar Next Door. She was on my “drop everything and go” list along with Vic Juris and Pasquale. Also Ben Monders BND hits.
Anyway … she’s bad.
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Interestingly Sheryl and Ben Monder weren’t terribly interesting to me on record, but live …. Whew.
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This is pretty typical though. I don’t remember the last time I set the metronome to click on every beat. Originally Posted by Mick-7
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I’ve heard Sheryl play live. Badass.
Ben, actually no. I should then, I really like his records but much more from a compositional perspective or the way he plays for the project - the playing is folded into that in that context.
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