losaavedra wrote:Amazing what you've come up with if you don't know the tune!!! One of my favorite jazz arrangements. I spent a lot of time trying to do the melody decently to it on alto. I first heard it as the Paul Desmond version
Thanks for the link to the Paul Desmond - interesting to know what it
should sound like.
Though what I particularly like about backing tracks, whather blues, jazz, rock, pop etc is that you can have great fun inventing your own melodies and tunes and licks. tbh I've got so used to playing what's in my head now, I find it almost impossible to memorise notes played by someone else and to play them. Mind you - that's a memory getting worse with age thing as well!
Hopefully the score may give some clues as to better note choices in those few sections where I got totally lost. It's good there was a strong piano going as I could ease off and let that take over - someone might even be fooled into thinking it was a deliberate musical choice.
bluesmole wrote:Mainly due to gnarled, arthiritic fingers not coping with the chord stretches!!
Nice to see a post from you Bluesmole
- glad you are active in your retirement. I sympathise with the stretches problem - I gave up classical guitar lessons due to strains to the joints and I have a degree of discomfort lurking most of the time these days - hence tuned down 10s on the 25.5" scale Strat. As far as 'jazz' goes I stick with single notes pretty well all the time - partly a lack of knowledge of the exotic chords used but also down to the physically demading requirements of where the fingers need to go. Still - I enjoy my wee excursions into Jazz-lite.
tytlblues wrote:well VB, that's quite the departure from your normal style. I wish I could help figure out the changes........if it is an actual tune, or jazz standard, i can look it up in a real (fake) book of jazz tunes. Anyhow, you did a pretty good job zeroing in on the melody line, and playing along. Nice tone also......so VB as a jazz guitarist hmmmmmmmmmmm
I venture into this jazzy territory every so often - it's usually a sign that things are a bit bogged down in my usual styles. I do find the aspect of having to wing it is quite helpful in getting my playing going again. I did venture briefly onto a jazz guitar forum, realised how big the gulf was and am sticking with my little simplistic tunes. The only jazzy recording so far that I've felt I've not been struggling at places in was 'See the Old Folks Safely Home' - Blatant Plug -
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=976&p=7983&hilit=old+folks#p7983 - blimey - 5 months goes by a bit sharpish!
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