Re: Practising in 12/24 Keys

reed ( (no email) )
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:28:30 +0000

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>It is important, however, always to question these "doctrines" and
>reexamine the stories they are grounded in. That's why debates about how
>Charlie Parker "really" practised, or whether or not Wes was a closet
>sight-reader (JUST KIDDING) are pertinent. We're checking the myths for
>ourselves. Reed and Clay do this very well by offering an alternative
>"myth"--their own struggle to become fine players. They have bucked the
>standard doctrines and claim to have achieved significant progress. I
>haven't heard Reed play, but I've heard Clay and would love to play like
>he does.

I am going to start posting some real audio of my playing.

What I'm planning to do is post:

1) Me playing solo piano for the chord sub posts that I do.
I do alot of inner voice movement and have alot of interesting
chord voicings that I obviously can't convey in the kind of
posts I do.

2) Me soloing over the changes to standard tunes.

I'm learning how to transfer my playing to real audio format.
Hopefully sometime within the next several weeks I can get this
happening.

There has been some real audio for a long time of me playing some of my
tunes at the web site (this real audio was created for me by a student).
The samples are from a demo I did to interest other players in performing
my tunes so the arrangements are simple in order to convery the basic
nature of the tune. In other words it's not a demo of my piano playing but
rather of my writing.

In any case, those interested can check out:

http://www.justjazz.com/beaueve.ra "Beautiful Evening"
http://www.justjazz.com/takeme.ra "Take Me With You"
http://www.justjazz.com/urthe1.ra "You are The One"

enjoy.

reed

Reed Kotler
reed@justjazz.com
http://www.justjazz.com