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For karaoke, it should offer me a beer first.

You're welcome K. On Dave's website is also a nice example of him playing a particular tune with the swing, to contrast with playing straight.

Hey all,

Quick update. Getting busy, playing tonight at a restaurant and tomorrow night at a hotel!
Dave's gonna be like: "Hey, how come you don't practice anymore!"

Hey, how come you don't practice anymore?

haha!

Should be a fun one tomorrow. Drummer & bass have never played together and we also have either a sax or a flute that I've never met.

Sounds exciting knotty! Wish I could be there.

Update: Finally got the Linear Harmony book (Ligon). I think I can get a lot out of this book. Presents some stuff about theory in a way I hadn't seen before, and found quite helpful. In no way does it come across as a 'method' book similar to JOI. He's quite happy to present you with something on a single page that could easily take 6 months to master. Next page, same in all minor keys. KHen - I think you're better off leaving this one just now. If you have the Levine for theory, great, and perhaps a general sight reading book as knotty suggested. But if you can manage to stick with JOI, then the great thing with it is it progresses at a realistic pace. Ligon assumes you know all voicings, for example.

Dave: I just wanted to thank you for writing something that is do-able for small-fingered people. I don't know if this was deliberate or not. So far, I've not been asked to fudge a 9th or a 10th. Some of the major 7ths are tricky, but I can stretch to them.

Also I just want to check this is a simple mistake. Lesson 8, p 54, the E7 at the end of the line should be D F# G# C# (7 9 3 13).

If you have 30 mins / day, I'd stick with schedule outlined by Dave and leave sight reading for later...

Same here Knotty.

Happy birthday Ten !

Sure, it's just the previous chord with the 9.

Thanks custard!

OK, sticking to my goal of doing a lesson a week, here's lesson 8.

Blue over you:
http://www.box.net/shared/p7reyf2csb

I have a sore throat and so excused myself scat singing for just now. This one I whistled. My whistling of chromatic notes was never that great, so the next one I just played straight. Getting contrapuntal over you:

http://www.box.net/shared/76v37p8zof

Yesterday I also played this from lead sheet, and stuck the standard melody in, so here is Getting Sentimental:

http://www.box.net/shared/bldrgdqu35

I'm finding that writing these out is getting easier, also I memorize the voicings much quicker. Or, I can say, right I'm not going to do it that way, I'm going to do it this way, and still get the chord in on time. At least sometimes I manage it.

How's everyone getting on? Knotty, have you recovered from your gigs?

10,

The blues and tune were awesome, as usual.
As far as the original melody, I think you might want to learn it from a youtube video or something. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ReTatgS3M

With transcribe, you can download these and transpose to a good key. You'll get a much better feel on it.

>>Knotty, have you recovered from your gigs?
I'm up!
Went really well. Funny story, turns out the one yesterday was organized for a cancer foundation. And the person that funded the evening is a multiple grammy award winner (whose name I did not pick up). Though not a jazz musician. Towards the end of the last set, he said "hang on, I'll be right back". Came back with an Alto sax and said "let's play a ballad". Someone had just request misty so I said "Misty?". He's like, alright. I don't know the melody but let's improvise.
None of us had no idea what the heck he was playing, but sounded like a long turn-around throughout, so somehow we kept up with it. halfway through: "Can you double it up?". Before you know it, we're playing an insane tempo and he's just going up and down the horn like crazy...
Anyway, that was fun!

He funded the event? That's called 'tempo correctus perfectissimo' knotty!

Thanks for the comments. The melody was that good was it? I'd been listening to Tommy Doresy play Getting Sentimental, but I must admit I found it a challenge to pin the tune down.

>> He funded the event? That's called 'tempo correctus perfectissimo' knotty!
I think he was one of the main contributors for this cause. The only name that was announced that night (other than ours).

Hey Ten
You are getting into these JOI tunes in a massive way. Your swing is really cool and I liked your grace notes on the jazz one.
BTW I must be one of the few people in the world who can't whistle.

Hey Knots
That's hilarious about the confident non-jazz dude who improvised a jazz standard. It sounded like a very fun night.

Thanks for commenting custard. I feel like I'm on a roll with the lessons and just want to keep going, get them under my belt asap. Get on with the improvising which is what I'm in this for.

I did put those grace notes in at the very end, only once I was happy with the shape of the tune.

How's your finger? You up to hanons yet?

Finger's been feeling great thanks Ten. So I've been back to Hanons and improvising.
I'm looking forward to listening to your submission on the May recital.

Hi
Here is my combination improv in Bb maj_G min. It's 16 measures @ 84 bpm.

http://www.box.net/shared/34ql8370es

Cheers
cus

Cus, that sounds really good.

Here's one thing I'm hearing. I'm hearing you play in groups, but accenting the last note of the group. So it's a bit displaced to me.
Play groups of 4s, but accent the 1st.

Maybe I can try one....

DF would demonstrate this a thousand and 6 times better, but here:

http://www.box.net/shared/3i3gnx92nu

I tried mixing short (1 measure), and long lines, up to 8 bars.

What I'd do with Dave is record him play a few bars. Back home, you play it once, then play once, play it, then you play. It naturally slowly sinks in that way.

DF: You didn't know I was recording you were you?? (it's in my sock)