Here’s a feature I’ve been meaning to start- my favorite individual tracks ever. Our first entry will be Charles Mingus’ Hog Callin’ Blues, from the album Oh Yeah. I think Jimmy Knepper said “there’s no […]
A quick little transcription project, before I get into making a lot of cymbal videos. These are the rhythms for the horn riffs on some Charles Mingus tunes. A riff is a repeating background figure, […]
Another example of rub-a-dub applied, using a passage from the Charles Mingus tune Fables of Faubus. In previous lessons we’ve just used this idea on the head of some tunes as an exercise. Here we’re […]