Jack Dejohnette open drum solo from Boo Ann’s Grand, on the Jackie McLean 1967 album Demon’s Dance. Tempo is about 241— about as fast you can do this kind of stuff. This is burning for […]
Daily best music in the world: Elvin recorded wrong
A little listening experiment. My brother played this record for me, I forget how he set it up— clearly there was something wrong with it, he wanted my reaction. I said, this is somebody I […]
Transcription: Billy Cobham – For Someone I Love
Here’s that Billy Cobham transcription— just of a busy portion of Freddie Hubbard’s solo on For Someone I Love, on Milt Jackson’s record Sunflower. I’m learning a lot about Musescore doing something this damn complicated. […]
Billy, switch to decaf babe
Getting cocky about my Musescore skills now, working on a Billy Cobham transcription, from Milt Jackson’s album Sunflower. On the tune For Someone I Love, he does sort of an insane thing that almost crashes […]
Transcription: Flight For Freedom – 01
OK, first complete transcription using Musescore, doing basically everything I need it to do for this site. Same recording I’ve been working with, Flight For Freedom by Oliver Nelson, from his record Skull Session, with […]
Working with Musescore – 02
Getting further into Musescore with an easy Shelly Manne transcription, a rock arrangement called Flight For Freedom, from Oliver Nelson’s record Skull Session. I like Manne’s rock playing— it’s a little different, with a great […]
Very occasional quote of the day: relationships for leaders
“The only thing that is really important in your relationship with actors is that they must know that you admire them, that you admire their work, and there’s no way to fake that. You must […]
Snare drum vs. drum set training
The following are some comments I made in a contentious online conversation about snare drum training and drum set training— or playing— and the differences between the two, that I think stand on their own— edited […]
Working with Musescore
Reporting on a work in progress on Musescore, ever since Finale’s parent company MakeMusic informed us their program would self-annihilate along with our current computer hardware, and destroy all of our prior musical output along […]
Daily best music in the world: Art Ensemble of Chicago – 1983
While I figure out how to work Musescore, here’s some Art Ensemble of Chicago. My German friends told an interesting story last year about how they got all of this Paiste gear… by some rather […]