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Ahh well digital or acoustic . . . another topic for discussion.

Well it was green for a while, yesterday and today: snowstorm! So now it's -2C and the lake close by is freezing yet again.

Btw: go to this page it's an hours interview with Keith Jarrett from 2005, where KJ talks about playing cocktail piano as well as bar mitzvahs, weddings, performing with Miles, solo concerts, etc

Jazzwee - Your lesson news made me smile.

Chris - lucky you, serenading a sleeping beauty. She is a cutie.

Woody - why only 20 years left to learn? I'm planning on learning until I go to that great jam session above.

well said, Woody. Jazzwee is our hero and mentor here. i'm progressing at my own speed and now that i have a zoom2, will try to get a file uploaded when i'm ready.

btw Woody, we are on parallel paths...i'm 60 now, had a piano in the house since i was a kid but only played Christmas Carols (poorly) so last fall sat down with determination.

i'ts been great.....and this thread has consistently kept me engaged, practicing, and learning.

westarm,
Good morning. Yes, the best part about the AL thread is you can progress at your own pace. I lurked in the background with thread for a while but decided I had to add my 2 cents. All here will look forward to listening to your recordings.

I have found playing the piano is much more rewarding than when I was younger. I never did object to the hours of practice, but I never did look forward to each practice like I do now. I wish I had more time to spend on weekday evenings but work still gets in the way.

I have about a 1000 questions on your Zoom H2. I've been thinking about getting one myself. With your Acro, you would be recording acoustically same as I would. I'm interested in finding out the results. I would like to start posting my recordings for review here also.

westarm - Welcome back out of lurker status. Please keep posting here. It's important that we stay on page 1 of the AB forum. After all, this is "The Best Thread" of the forum hosted by jazzwee, "The Best Leader" and mentor!

So. With nothing better to do, I put together a little arpeggio exercise based on some of the harmony's in ATTYA. Play them straight and swing.
PDF

Way to go, Chris. Just printed it out. It's beautiful. Of "all the things you are", "GREAT" describes it best.

Thanks so much!!

Yup, We got Chris back!!! Thanks

You guys are so nice. You make this all worth it despite detractors. I've told many this, part of the reason I do this is that it improves my own playing as I try to explain. So it benefits all of us.

You guys are tops!

Are they starting to rag you again about the AL thread? I thought that was over with. Anything we can do?

No active discussion Woody. Just the usual drive-by shooters rating me down. Nothing new. Pretty strange though since we've all been quiet lately so just the mere presence of this thread serves to irk some idiots.

Chris, thanks for doing the ATTTYA arps for us. Yaaay, we have now AL and ATTTYA to work on side by side. BTW, your sleeping beauty looks great!!

Woody, I agree with you & that Jazzwee has given us such a great gift in this thread. Where can we find this kind of mentor? He is a GEM. IF it were not for this thread, I would not be able to start playing jazz, not to mention to start doing jazz solo. He had taken a lot of my jazz phobia out of the way and made each step EZ to understand so that I know exactly what to do.

Jazzwee, don't let those annonymous shooters get to you. They just want to trap you to demoralize you.

You are in all our hearts and that's what counts.

I can't agree with you more. The LESSONS are concise and focused. But the BEST part for me is to be able to submit our recordings and getting feedback so QUICKLY. We need prompt feedback to keep our motivation high and to make sure we are not wasting our time doing the wrong thing but on the right track.

And all the specific advice on everybody's recordings (not just mine) had benefited me GREATLY.

Jazzwee, though you don't know us personally, but from your comments we all know that you spend a considerable amount of time listening to each of our recordings and giving us so SPECIFIC feedback so that we know how to improve -- we are greatly indebted to you and your interests to make us GROOOOOOWWWWWW in our playing. I see great improvement in everyone here within 3 short months.

Also others feedback like rintincop and fellow learners are invaluable too.

Westarm and Woody -- hope you upload your recording files soon. The more you record, the more you will play and PLAY, and the better and BETTER you will get.

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rintincop,
Wow! That's Jazz! I hate to admit it but I've never heard of him. I tried out the other recordings of Wynton Kelly's also. Most impresive! Let people say what they will about this thread, if nothing else, I have a new appreciation of Jazz that alone is worth logging on to the thread. Thanks.

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The man is amazing! It looks like he played in quite a few different bands during his time. Why is he a secret or am I just showing how limited my Jazz exposure has been? More important, who else do I not know about? Damn!

Oh, and I'm sorry - Thanks - I forgot in my last posting.