“The Nearness of You”, Chris Potter on “The Source” (Live), diminished stuff, “Stella By Starlight” in G.
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Long Tones as a Meditation ????
Let’s breathe and meditate on some saxophone long tones. Shed with me at bobsvirtualstudio.com
Bob appears on the Everything Saxophone Podcast
The Everything Saxophone Podcast invited me on for a chat recently. It came out this week and you can listen to it here: One enthusiastic listener, Ward, suggested I share this because “I just walked the dog listening to the Podcast. It was EPIC. Thanks!!!!” (thanks, Ward!) We talked about: My biggest influences when it comes […]
Long tones exercise: “The Nearness of You” root motion to a drum loop in 11/4
Why? Because I can simultaneously: practice memorizing the chord progression to a standard I want to know, focus on following and predicting the form and harmonic rhythm, (I’m visualizing the 4-8 bar sections as I go, aiming to think ahead a measure or two) treat it as a long tone exercise, and step outside my […]
Exploring Joshua Redman’s pre-“Jazz Crimes” recordings – Live webcast additional resources
Thanks to all who joined me today! If you missed it you can access the replay here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/groundupmusic49 I always find these live “talking to my computer” webcasts daunting and there is no possible way I could get through all the music I wanted to share with you in an hour, but I think we […]
Limitations, interaction, and building something together – Vlog 168 (blocked by YouTube and record labels)
The four musicians I reference in the vlog episode below inspired me so much they changed the course of my life. In this video I distill some important musical lessons I learned from their collaboration. YouTube blocked it on behalf of WMG (a big record label) because I included some samples from the Nonesuch (a […]