The vocalist in our jazz band loves this piece and so we're playing it at a jazz festival in a couple of weeks. The changes are (pick one) murderous/a wonderful challenge to solo over. Unfortunately I've not moved beyond murdering a wonderful challenge. I decided to notate a solo to get a few ideas cemented.
Check the changes - no chord is repeated until the end of the A section. I kept a simple base line as I just want some chordy noises to work with, but boy! Jobim must've been sadistic dude
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Arranger's Hell - brought to you by Antonio Jobim
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RE: Kanstul Update Thread
@Tobylou8 - some manufacturing was already moving from China to countries with even lower labour costs (and slacker or non-existent protection for workers). Don't count on a wholesale return of jobs.
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RE: 2019 Jazz Festivals
@stumac
we were a little taken aback too Stuart, but came up with a number which was accepted. This will now make a solid contribution to producing our first album. I'm still waiting to see if I'll have to stump up full price for ticket for my partner. -
RE: 2019 Jazz Festivals
Don't mind if I do Dr G. Anyone who is anywhere near Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia on the Queen's Birthday Weekend (7-9th June) should check out both the historic Old Gold-mining town and the jazz festival.
https://www.castlemainejazzfestival.com.au/Check out G&T Jazz for fine "new standards" written by our talented vocalist. We have two festival slots and the performance fee will go towards a recording session in the very near future.
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RE: Bill Adams Routine
@Kehaulani I think he is talking about using mouthpiece plus leadpipe (rather than just mp) as a warm-up. The notes infer that the embouchure will be more relaxed than when buzzing on a mp. The block of text before the Long Tone section talks about "blowing just as you did on the leadpipe" when working through the long tones.
In answer to your question about using the leadpipe, no, I just move straight on to long tones ona whole horn (but don't hold myself up as any example ). -
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Can you believe this dude?
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RE: Bill Adams Routine
@Kehaulani, Hope this uploads cleanly. This was found somewhere on the web a while back.
I've since heard several interviews with some great players taught by Bill Adams and from what I remember, students' routines varied according to individual needs, but FWIW, here is one...
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RE: Kelly mouthpieces (plastic, acrylic, lexan, whatever...)
I have a couple of Kelly MPs - 1 Kelly Screamer - feels and sounds pretty ordinary, but that may say as much about my playing on a too shallow (for me) mouthpiece. 2 A 3C cornet piece - the cheapest option after not packing a mouthpiece on a business trip. It plays fine and doesn't feel much different to a metal MP of similar size.
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RE: Vocal warm-ups.
Lis Lewis' "Singer's First Aid Kit" comes with a great CD of vocal warmup exercises. Working with this really opened my eyes to the difference that a decent warmup routine can make.
I found that playing trumpet for 20 or 30 minutes has a similar effect on the vocal chords as a decent warmup. Some vocal warm-ups involve a limited amount of air flowing over the vocal folds - limited by humming, rolling the tongue, or what the vocal world calls "lip trills". Maybe it's the steady relatively small air flow blowing a horn that warms up the voice? -
RE: We're off to a good start
Congrats to the board's founder and all who travel on it!
According to this message we've passed a meeeeelion views
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RE: A little humour
@moshe I took a moment to get it too - a few seconds, but then again, I'm only 62
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RE: Who want's to teach me a jazzy lick in C Major(ish)?
@Doodlin This video from Eric Bolvin is a great place to start. This is all about beginning improv - making up your own tune/licks/counter-melodies as you go. FWIW, until I started playing trumpet again ("comeback" still feels pretentious to me) about 7 years back, attempts at getting started with improv never took off. This video really opened my eyes and after first watching it, I spent 3 very happy hours noodling with what I'd learned in ten minutes.
Enjoy!
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RE: Exercises for super fast tonguing
@GeorgeB some arrangers of marches are very unimaginative and write nasty parts for 2nd and 3rd cornets/trumpets don't they? My suggestion is to get your double-tonguing up to speed. It's far easier to cruise through a long stretch of semi-quavers even if you can single tongue at that speed.
A few years back a teacher gave me an exercise to develop triple-tonguing that is equally applicable to building double-tonguing speed and technique: Simply pick a scale that is comfortably in your range - maybe F major and start - (F) tktk tktk taaaaa (G) tktk tktk taaaa and so on, up and down the scale. Do it slowly at first, concentrating on getting the articulation clean and even. Getting the articulation clean is more important that speed ( +1 for the suggestion above to practice just "K" articulation too).
I won't buy into the discussion about tuku vs taka except to say that it's a case of what ever works in you head - dugu dugu works for me
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RE: Favorite Cornet
I think that this is about to become my favourite cornet. It just arrived. Incredibly complete with two sets of valve slides and appears to have all or most of the famous Mechanism in pieces.
It's in way better condition than the eBay seller's description. The case is tatty, but seems original. Third valve was rotated and so it wouldn't make a sound at first. Oiled and refitted the valves and it plays quite nicely. All slides except the main tuning slide move freely. The tuning slide crook fell off in my hand so I guess that the inner tubes are seized. Will clean it up and have a gentle go at freeing them this weekend.
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RE: An exercise in futility?
@stumac said in An exercise in futility?:
A friend gave me his piccolo trumpet to see what I could do with it. (Oswal India, nuff sed)
Pulled stuck slides, easy enough, removed valves, casings numbered 1 2 3 4, Valves 2of numbered 1, other 2 no number,fun to sort out on reassembly, valves appear to have been greased, very sluggish.
2 leadpipes, assume Bb and A, both receivers just parallel tubing, Bb the mouthpiece goes into the start of the leadpipe and is firm, in A pipe does not reach leadpipe and wobbles.
This is as far as I have gone, the next step is to give it a good cleaning and then reassemble paying particular attention to valve alignment. I have Blackburn Bb and A pipes that will fit.
More to come.
Regards, Stuart.
Maybe add a lampshade?