Feb2021: Single-strings, timing and such

This is an exercise I read about and is basically imposing 3/4 over 4/4.  Constant dotted half notes, anticipating over bar-lines.   Found this tricky to keep my place in the form, but I think it opened up a lot of future studies and exercises.  Tune is "all the things you are"...  but I guess you can hear that.

Single string improv.  This is a thing that Abercrombie, Goodrich and Jim Hall all preach.  I find it really connects you with melody and you inner hearing.  Also sabotages all you good licks and familiar pathways.  

Rob Easley · All the Things you are (Single String Improv exercise)

These are some Pat Martino positional studies that I have been doing this month with a few students.   I have spent a some time working them over changes.  Sort of ambiguous jazzy sounding lines.  Here are the raw licks over a vamp.

Here is a tune for this month.  I tried to get into a Kenny Wheeler vibe here, but it quickly became a puzzle of harmonising a chromatic descending bass line.  Made a little arrangement in Logic.  Also took a first pass at playing a solo, just to make sure it wasn't too brutally hard.  

(Changing over to MuseScore for notation... not quite there yet for publishing)

Rob Easley · Wheel Be Listening Demo