Bemsha swing keith jarrett transcription4/30/2024 Some Chris Potter and for R&B/soul and Funk you cannot beat Maceo, Gerald Albright, Sanborn, Kirk Whalum and of course there's Jr Walker and King Curtis. I rarely transcribe full solos but usually the sections that intrigue me and catch my ear melodically or harmonically. I Took a few lessons from Lenny Pickett and one of the things that stood out most was his advice: "If ya really want to learn how to 'sing' on your horn, transcribe singers." Really stuck with me.Īs for other transcriptions, I'd have to say Coltrane's intro chorus on "My One and Only Love" - talk about melodic iInterpretation! Also Cannonball's and Miles' solos on "So What" and Coltrane's "Countdown" solo for sheer technique. Whether it's Billie Holliday, Frank Sinatra, Macy Gray or Jamiroquoi, (to name a few) a great phrase is priceless. The other thing i learnt from kenny garret's playing is I noticed a lot of similarities in there with miles' playing from when he played with miles which intrigued me a lot and I spent a lot of time thinking about that.Ĭlick to expand.I'd have to totally agree with this! There's nothing like listening to great melodies sung with emotion and groove. and then that worked really nicely with the the way kenny garret plays straight ahead heads, like have you met miss jones. I learnt blue bossa for the first time by transcribing dex playing it and when dex played it it was so phat and planted and strong, I loved it. made a big difference to me.Īlso, kenny garrett and dex taught me a lot about playing tunes. Thats the other thing I learnt from miles - is i first understood making sounds with notes rather than the horn. ![]() also miles' use of things like the 9th on minor chords - I love that sound. The first proper transcriptions I did were of Art Pepper and I learnt a lot from that, beautiful, simple phrasesīut recently its been miles and cannonball which I think have been some of my most successful, after I transcribed miles' solo on so what, cannonballs solo on milestones and a few others I literally felt changed, its an odd feeling but it was a big turning point for me on understanding what makes a phrase and how you can still play an arpeggio and make it sound like its something so much more complicated. ![]() How to keep it simple and sound interesting on a small set of sus chords. Sonny Rollins, Moritat, Strode Rode: iii-vi ii-v- and minor ii-v-things, a wealth of robust eighth-note lines Just liked the phrases and the attitude (the squeaky sound ), although the player is less known Jackie McLean on Stella by Starlight (Art Blakey's band): Nice, relaxed hard bop phrasing. Four, Miles: the concept and ideas on how to create phrases for mid- to up-tempo songs without any specific patterns, based on rhythm and selected interesting (chord) upper structures. Tower of Power, Knock yourself out on Live and in living color Street Life plus solos with Charles Kynard on the album Reeling with the Feeling. Had never heard of the guy back then, but he just sounded so good. So what, Freddie Freeloader, Trane & Miles. Liked the old-school use of harmony, arpeggios and the sound. At a rough chronological order over too many years: I've transcribed too little to make any general recommendations, and some of the selections may have been strange in such a short list, but these were a start for me and this is what I found motivation for at the time. ![]() (Of course again, every transcription is useful and important, just trying to get a picture of what people have done to study the playing of others.) ? Did you only transcribe major players, major works, or just anything you liked ? Time is limited, so everybody focuses on something, I guess ? What did you gain from this or that piece ? How many solos have you transcribed, tens, hundreds ? Where did that get you ? When you look back at your jazz studies, well, some room left for funkier solos as well, can you remember which transcriptions helped you forward the most, blew your mind, opened up a new style for you, etc.
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