Etudes
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Here’s a short arrangement of Blue Bossa . I wasn’t trying to work on one particular concept, just "following my muse" as the say. Still, I was going for a contrapuntal texture. It’s 3 voices, the second voice doubling the first one in thirds, for the most part. Although I tried to give it some [...]
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Getting back on track, here’s a little voice-leading etude I did with Misty. Four voices; top voice is the melody. Basically, I tried to voice-lead the two middle lines as smoothly possible, which led to some pretty crazy stretches. But I think the resulting sound is pretty nice. I especially like what happens on bar [...]
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Here’s the full 2-part etude based on All The Things You Are. First, the basic outline using different polyphonic patterns:
allthethings.pdf
And now with some melodic activity added:
allthethings2.pdf
And here’s a rather clumsy rendition of it:
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Of course, the idea is to use that as a foundation and to play around with [...]
Monday, February 18th, 2008
As promised, here is a recording of the etude I posted not too long ago. I learned it as is, and then slowly started to improvise with it…mostly just playing with rhythmic anticipations and adding a little motion to the bass line. I still need to work on it a bit, but I [...]
