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Enjoying a nice semester break from Berklee with more available time to shed. It's important for me to keep practicing and try to move forward, learn and improve. As a musician, I feel that if we stop evolving, growing and learning, we stagnate and even move backwards. There are a lot of things in my playing that I want to tweak and more fully develop. This clip shows a little of what I was working on the other day. The clip is comprised of four brief excerpts from a practice session playing Coltrane's Countdown. (My apology for the microphone cord being in the clip.

Here's the first etude of mine for Giant Steps. Lots of open, sus sounding 4th voicings. These work great for this tune. Enjoy!

On a semester break from Berklee and in the shed today working on Thelonious Monk's classic tune "Ask Me Now". Joe (Locke) had brought this tune with him when he visited a few weeks ago. We had played this with Joe on vibes and myself on piano. Joe was burning from beginning to end while I comped on piano. It's a great tune for the "four to the bar" left hand comping that I'm utilizing here in the clip. I was also working on trying to keep the left hand groove going while incorporating two hand runs (using alternate strokes and combination strokes). It's a work in progress.

Hi Guys this month I'd like to talk a bit about the blues.
This is a lesson for beginners that want to approach the blues form!

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Serenata is a very old standard, written in the 1920s I believe by Leroy Anderson (I think). You don't hear it too much but I've always liked the melody, and the changes are fun to play on.

I've been working on Groovin' High the last couple weeks, so I wrote a little etude on There Will Never Be Another You using its main thematic idea. I had to tweak it here and there to fit the chords and harmonic rhythm. I still need to work on playing it well, but I wanted to share it.

-Tristan

On a semester break working on this beautiful song composed by the late Kenny Wheeler, a wonderful musician and composer who left us in September of 2014. I just learned about this song last week from Joe (Locke) who was here for a visit. Of course Joe played it unbelievably and in a way only he could. It's a beautiful song but somewhat tricky to improvise on melodically and make the changes. Here's my first stab at it.

Happy Holidays!

Ed