I guess the theme this week is TRANSCRIPTIONS and BUY RECORDS, because this post also does not have a YouTube link. But you can get the album on iTunes, probably from some other online sources. […]
Category: jazz
Transcription: Paul Motian — Trinkle Tinkle
Oh, look, another transcription with no YouTube video— no worries, though, because as a serious listener, you already own this record. This is Paul Motian’s playing during Bill Frisell’s guitar solo on the tune Trinkle […]
Transcription: Jeff Watts — Makin’ Whoopee
Another Jeff Watts transcription, from Branford Marsalis’s album Trio Jeepy. The audio is not available on our usual YouTube; but, you, know, that’s OK. Music isn’t actually supposed to be free. So get thee to […]
“Skiplet”?
In some ways I feel I’m watching (and contributing to) the death of the familiar jazz ride cymbal pattern as a musical thing, for a lot of reasons, but partly as the result of a […]
Transcription: Jeff Watts — Upper Manhattan Medical Group
Here is Jeff Watts’s 32-bar solo on Upper Manhattan Medical Group, from Branford Marsalis’s album Trio Jeepy. It’s a sign of the times that Watts, a virtuoso himself, comes off as kind of un-technical compared […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin’s waltz — inverted feet
Once you start doing an Elvin-like thing, the pull of that dotted-quarter rhythm can be very hard to resist; it’s effective, it builds tension, and it feels good to play it, but you need to […]
Transcription: Ed Blackwell — Guinea
OK, this one is definitely a labor of love— that took way too long to finish and proof. But I’ve been living with this piece for a good twenty years, and performing it for much […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin’s waltz in 4/4
It could look an awful lot like I’m phoning it in with all of these Pages o’ Coordination— well, I am phoning it in, a little bit, but that’s not to say the pages aren’t […]
Stone method for uptempo jazz — 01
Most of the regular drumming literature is poorly adapted to the special conditions of very fast tempos in jazz; the practice materials are either too dense, or are triplet-based, which obviously isn’t going to work. […]
Page o’ coordination: hihat splash in 5/4
Here’s the disconcerting third dropped shoe in this recent spate of hihat splash pages o’…, now in 5/4, and I… Wow, I think that may be the ugliest, most incomprehensible sentence I’ve ever written. I’m […]