Here's some of the stuff I've been practicing. I don't have this quite down and might never! It's an almost impossible etude for me to practice!
Just thought I'd post this as well!
Here's a great Friedman Vid. Dave wrote the book 'Dampening and Pedaling'. He's one of the major players on the scene and has a very very unique sound on the instrument. I have always totally admired his lines, his comping, geez (to use a palin term) his playing!!!
What's extra great about this vid is there's no drums, you can really here him clearly and hear him comp rhythmically. Really cool stuff!
So when I was in college I came up with this plan that really helped me. It's a little over the top, but it could be a good guide for some of us.
In school it helped me keep the music going. Even after I graduated I kept this going and it helped me, I think stay in the business.
Here it goes, first:
Ear Training: 1 hour equals 2
Practicing: 1 hour equals 1 hour
Listening: 1 hour equals 1.5 hours
Jamming and gigging: 1 hour equals 3
doing music business stuff: 1 hour equals, .5 hours
teaching: 1 hour equals 1 hour
This is an original by me. Thought I'd post it. If there's something I miss, it's just coming up with stuff. I don't consider myself a composer, but I do write tunes. If had my own music school (wait, I sort of do don't I?) 2 hours of the day would be for students to sit and write stuff. Just come up with things.
2 hours would be ear training, 4 hours (in 2, 2 hour blocks) would be playing in an ensemble and 2 hours would be listening and 2 for theory. It would be 6 days a week.
Glad I got that off my chest!
So going along with with tmacoids great posts I thought I would post some tunes.
I love playing rock tunes. These are MY standards, the tunes I grew up with, and they have a lot of meaning to me. There are many ways to play these tunes. Some guys like to alter the changes and mess with the harmony. I thing there's a whole musical world to discover by playing the tunes as is and developing that harmony organically. Just my thought.
last night i had some time welll not really time ..lol ..instead of watching tv i mess with my recording studio... so i imported the portland session into the program and remixed it.
musicians on session
T Macaoidh Vibraphone
David Valdez, alto sax
Michael Pappillo, Bass
Ken OLLis, drums
Tracks areL
AFterThought.. Tmacaoidh circa 2002
A lotis on Irish STreams... BIRD OF FIRE
all are first takes .. 100 percent sighting reading ... oh yess i was an afternoon in the laboratory...
jah bless
http://www.steveyeager.com/Home.html Says it all. Check him out, I think you'll love Steve's playing and if you haven't heard him already, this should be a treat. Also a real nice person and we'd love to hear from him at www.vibesworkshop.com
check out samples at his web site and then... (buy something)
Here's a prerequisite for the Shapes and Patterns of Music sight reading. My recommendation is to play these exercises as fast as you can but start at the beginning no matter how proficient you already are. If it's too easy, play it faster!