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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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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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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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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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Interestingly Sheryl and Ben Monder weren’t terribly interesting to me on record, but live …. Whew.
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