Everybody knew Prez's solos by heart

Depois da excelente conversa de Ethan Iverson com Lee Konitz sobre Lester Young
(
http://dothemath.typepad.com/dtm/lester-young-centennial.html
)

Tirado de uma entrevista a Jonhy Griffin:
http://www.jazz.com/features-and-interviews/2008/7/28/in-conversation-with-johnny-griffin

Chicago was a saxophone town. I mean, there were a lot of blues guitarists there, of course�T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters. But for jazz, it was really a saxophone town. Later it was an organ town, too. Most of the saxophonists tried to emulate the late Lester Young. Everybody knew Prez's solos by heart. That was the main direction. We Chicago musicians played the music not of New Orleans, but the music that was emanating from Kansas City. That was the style. The Basie band.

Sid Jacobs

Another great master I have just met:

http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/sid-jacobs-pedal/August-2009/99037

Interesting use of 7, 9 and 3 clusters on voicings for All the things

He makes Jazz seems like Bach on this one:
http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/sid-jacobs-pedal/August-2009/99037

Hal Galper

Um grande pedagogo, dado a conhecer pelo excelente blog do zimk (quem quer que ele seja).
Ver masterclasses no google e material no site dele.

Uma das pérolas que ele diz:

Clark Terry's 3 stages (3 I's):

Imitation, Interialization, Inovation

left hand fingering on open position

It is quite interesting you raise this question because I have struggled with it some time ago, because I started on classical guitar using 1, 2, 4 on open position, and then I saw Joe Pass method with 1, 3, 4 on same frets. I still don't have a straight forward answer, but I feel that while on classical guitar the fingers 1, 2, 4 feel much more confortable and safe, on electric guitar, specially from the 8th fret up, fingers 1, 3, 4 feel more confortable and while 1, 2, 4 seem to damage the hand causing some pain.



In ohter words: one might think that finger 2 is stronger than 3, so it would be better to use 1, 2, 4, but on the other hand separating fingers 3 and 4 feels more natural than finger 1 and 2 (just try it!)



Currently I try to use mainly closed position, trying to find most confortable positions, sliding and moving the arm instead.



As usual there is no standard perscription that replaces personal search and decisions...



Joao Pedro





[quote]When I was learning the basics of scales, I hadn't heard of the CAGED system. Maybe I wasn't paying attention or maybe that was before the term was coined, I don't know. Anyway, I was looking at a page that lays out the basics (Major Scale Shapes: CAGED System) and it is familiar to me, but I've got two questions. First, here is one of the two fingerings for G major in the D form:







I use that shape, but not that fingering! I was taught a fundamental idea on left hand positioning: closed or open. Closed means you position your fingers over consecutive frets and open means you skip a fret between your index and middle finger. Using the open positioning, I would play the previous D form using the index finger on fret 5, but my middle finger on fret 7, ring on fret 8 and pinky on fret 9. I know, it comes down what feels best to you, but the above image is leaving the middle finger completely out of the action, and working my pinky harder as a result, and I want to rely more on my stronger fingers! Comments?



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Labeling music is just an excuse for not listening

I was listening to hermeto pascoal for the first time and my mind started asking “what kind of music is this?” is it jazz, etc? So I realized that’s the kind of question we should not ask, even to ourselves. Usually the classification, labeling, etc, is just an excuse to NOT listen to the music.

Its only purpose is to discard some “types” of music that we imagine we don’t like. The labeling won’t help us like or dislike a song, neither will it give us any clue to understand. It is like listening for some music for some time, then saying “hey, this is jazz music”, and suddenly you start liking it.

In a software testing context, Cem Kaner said:

Calling an event a "black swan" names it but having a name doesn't mean we
understand it any more or any less.

To the extent that we turn off ourcritical thinking after we find a name, naming it is counterproductive.
Cem Kaner