Sunday, May 11th, 2008
While I was In Berklee I got deeply into the music of Michael Hedges. I bought all his CD’s, got myself an acoustic guitar (yes, a Martin…) and tried to learn any song of his I could. But, as with all my phases, I soon moved on to other things (Mr. Bungle and Meshuggah, go [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Here’s a little 3-part arrangement of “There Will Never Be Another You.” I simply play the melody while holding a simple root-5 bass line underneath, what I talked about in this post. Then I added a guide-tone line in the middle.
Here’s the score.
This is really a starting point. I plan to add a little more [...]
