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very nice Laura)
Nice flow, good complete phrases. I'm going to teach it to my parrot so he can sing it all day long.

Everything going great, on to 5

DF

That's a huge compliment, thankyou Dave. I wish your parrot the best of luck with it. I will take some time to play it better. I practised the last one (Tadpoles) and enjoyed it lots. In fact, I did find the tadpoles were singing it to me at night.

I am as amazed to find that I can play the chords just by looking at the name (while concentrating on the RH) as I am that I can actually write anything.

Very nice composition!

Oh Yeh !
I wish someone could teach me to sing Scottish Day too.
btw great title.

Hey 10
Congrats for tackling such a difficult one so well. Lesson 4 was the hardest composition for me too.
Lesson 5 Sugar is a blues one with not many modulations at all, it's much easier.
2 more compositions and then you get to improv over progressions and catch up to me !

It's a shame I haven't had the chance to do much improv much this week as Ab maj_F min is the most beautiful of the progressions to my ears, but it's also the most difficult one for me.

Hey Knots
I want to let you know that I will be parking Very Early @ 80 bpm and my arrangement for When I Fall in Love @ 54 bpm as I want to get back to composing over the JOI lessons.

How did your weekend concerts go ?

>> How did your weekend concerts go ?
Good, we had a lot of fun. Everyone played good and the audience was very receptive.

Thankyou knotty and custard. I was quite happy with the title, through amazingly the sun has shone all weekend. One of the things I find difficult is to know whether I like something when I can't really play it well. If I play it badly, it's going to sound ropey, even if it's good. I suppose I could write with my software which does midi, but somehow getting the computer at the piano is more of a hassle than pencil and paper.

I am looking forward to Sugar being easier as I remember the tune was basically just the pentatonic scale.

Good luck with the progression, custard. I have a persistent problem with Ab major. I keep playing C sharps. They don't sound good! I keep avoiding C's and play C#'s instead.

Knotty, glad your playing went well. You're getting lots of experience and exposure.

I did a canary impersonation, so as to keep Dave's parrot company:
http://www.box.net/shared/pxzvuz20ys2h5mv2tgmt

This is Gone with what wind at 80% speed. I can hear it faster, but absolutely cannot keep up! I can go slow, though - parts of this I learned at 35%. That's slower than I've ever had to take any solo previously. Charlie's fingers must have been flying. It's a shame we don't have footage of him playing.

Amazing Stuff 10 !!

You are one talented lady.

Check this out:
[video:youtube]NlE8eba6y9I[/video]

At first, I didn't realize the fact that he's playing his solo while whistling it . Very cool.

I dig the guitar. I dig the whistling. But the glasses?

oh wow ! A swingin' boppin' canary. I never thought Charlie Christian could be so much fun. This was excellent.

I didn't even realise he was a guitar player, I thought he only played harmonica !

Really ? That's interesting. I don't have that problem. I actually think Ab maj is the most forgiving of the majors, to my ears the C# doesn't sound that bad.
And it probably depends on what LH chord you're using. For the rootless one that Knots gave me C Eb G Bb, it's like C min 7, and the C# sounds kinda nice with it IMO.

Hey Knotty
I forgot to ask you whether you did a composition for Lesson 7 Topsy ?

Yes, I think I did up to lesson 25 or 30:
http://jazzitup-knot.blogspot.com/2009/06/y-spot.html

hahaha it took me a while to get your title but now I finally get it and I am still laughing.
I also like your arps and your predominantly minor sound.

Thanks!

Can you believe this was over 2 years ago?

I think you set a very high standard. I would be pleased just to do half of your number of compositions.

Sounds good knotty!

I have a question. Lesson 14, page 66, Blue days. Bar 9 has a Bb7 chord which is voiced AbCDA. Just checking this a thousand times as I write, because I'm fairly crap at reading ledger lines. Not only is it impossible to reach (though I could take the top note in the RH) but as a voicing it's fairly off-piste. I've just listened to the CD and it sounds more like a G there rather than the top A.

Can I put this down as a simple mis-print?

Also, I was wondering if there would be any value in doing a composition based on blues chords. I know, doing 10 of them would be fairly repetitive, but I'm just wondering about the logic of doing compositions on the standard chords alone, and missing out the blues altogether. Any thoughts?

Hey 10,

Sounds like a mis-print to me.
I never thought of doing blues compositions. I suppose it wouldn't hurt. But the rules would have to be a bit different.

Thought so. Thanks.



How? Phrasing looks very similar. Just curious.