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Originally Posted by sgcim
And I don't agree about 320 being robotic. Bird played those tempos. It's all what you practice and how old you were when you started playing the language. I totally disagree in any way that trane was robotic.
Sorry bruv, we'll have to agree to disagree here.
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04-03-2024 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jzucker
I spent two months only playing Giant Steps at 320. I got so I could play it in my sleep. Then I went to a club to sit in at an open jam run by a bass player I knew.
He said they were going to warm up with a blues. I tried to solo on the blues, and I couldn't hear anything in my head to play on a blues!
It scared the hell out of me! All I could play was Giant Steps at 320! That's when I realized there were ear players, and there were other players. I'm an ear player.
It literally took me a week to recover. Never again!
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Now there's a talented robot, could very well be the next YouTube star music educator!
"It literally took me a week to recover"
The medical term for that is PTSD, i.e., Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. But in this instance it's PTGSD - Post Traumatic Giant Steps Syndrome, a little known and frequently misdiagnosed disease that afflicted many jazz musicians in the early 1960's after Coltrane's album was released.
I've heard older renditions of the tune in which they played the standard changes on the head but a simplified version of them for soloing.
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Originally Posted by Mick-7
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