Re: reeds solos on the net
reed kotler ( (no email) )
Fri, 01 Nov 1996 17:18:37 -0800
At 04:50 PM 11/1/96 PST, you wrote:
>I wish that you expain to the people including myself how you do your
>solos. There are a few wierd notes. In particular, you seem to emphasize e#
>against a c#m7b5 chord in your 'I never knew clifford' solo. Is it a typo?
>In one place, you play a d against the same chord. Is this a passing tone?
>
>I have problems with this, but since the things are short, you are
probably ok. I will try them at home on the keyboard to see what I get.
>
>I also noticed that you had an f against an a7 chord, which should sound
>ok according to my last post.
>
>I could certainly understand if you adlibbed the solos into your
transcribing
>software essentially by ear without further edits. In that case, I feel
you did
>a good job.
>
>Since the final judge of jazz is the supreme being, don't take my comments
>too seriously.
>
> FO-DO-DE-O-DO, BOOP-BOOP-A-DOOP
> jules
>
>
>
A couple of the notes are basically there because the line is going
that way and they go by fast enough to not create a problem. You
can play it and tell me what you think. Those kind of things occur
all over the place in Chopin's music so I don't get too worried.
Jazz players like Charlie Parker and Bill Evans do that alot too.
Don Haas gave me a bunch of grief about that F. He wanted me to change
the chord to C#7 there.
But in the words of "Cheech and Chong" from their movie "Nice Dreams" :
"My mama done tried to tell me how to live, but I didnt
listen to her 'cause my head is like a sieve".
reed
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