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:D You might have actually pushed her buttons if you had said something like Then why do I hear a crackling noise whenever I get close to a radio or my guitar amp?! (As a teen I was once asked...
I have never understood why people would voluntarily use ugly imitations of handwritten notation. Probably they think jazz notation has to look like that because of the handwritten notation in the...
Unscrew them, put candle wax on the screw threads, then tighten them.
Well the natural extension of that would be less metronome, e.g. what Romain was doing. Miles Okazaki does this thing where he’ll play a bebop tune with the metronome clicking only on the third...
Peter? Hello? Yeah my secret? Never use jazz font. It’s just finale. I’ve gotten pretty good at the spacing and stuff over time. Not sure beyond that.
You're fine to share it. Just pretend you're a library.
You feel my pain! I will post how the in-ears work in the next couple of weeks
I am not Peter, but this looks simply like the Finale Maestro music font plus Times New Roman for the text.
Sit next to the horns, not behind them. Don’t be too far away. Position yourself between the drums and the horns. Point the amp towards the horns, they need to hear you more than the audience. If...
General comping vocab - check out Randy Vincent’s ‘the Guitarists Introduction to Jazz.’ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
How do you make up your worksheets Peter? They look nice. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I like to record with a click on a DAW and then obsess about the way the little waves don’t line up with the beat. I’m sure this is very helpful and productive. Sent from my iPhone using...
Regarding technical exercises (rather than solo transcriptions etc), my inclination is to say no. Play with a metronome. When you are comfortable, take out half the beats. Move the click to other...
I like the project of Thelonious Monk interpretations he did with Peter Bernstein. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzWOEdv7cCw Those two (maybe together with Miles Okazaki in the latter's very...
I recently played a gig with a big band consisting of 5 saxophones, 4 trombones, 3 trumpets, and a full rhythm section. Since most of the instruments were acoustic and the room was fairly small, we...
In-ear Monitors for a Big Band
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