June: Metronome and Stern Double-time lines

Hi, back on track (a bit). Working a lot with metronome this month. Moving the click to different beats. Really hard on the off beats at first, but it is getting a bit better. I made a little film clip of me goofing around with "Miss Jones". Click on the "and" of 4. Lost it in the second chorus so cut the film there.

Spent some time looking at the Stern solo from last month. Not really trying to learn it, but trying to get behind some of the notes. I noticed a handful of patterns that he leans heavily on. Working with those. I am calling these perpetual motion exercises built from his lines. Left some notes on the sheet music upload.

Rob Easley · Perpetual Motion Exercises

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There will never be another you: Chet Baker Solo

I have come to the conclusion that I stray too far from the melody when soloing. This is a perfect example of melodic development and embellishment. Very short, but great little solo. Didn't put any great effort into the notation... but oh well.

Cheesecake_Dexter Gordon

Love this one but still a work in progress. 80% speed...barely. A lifetime of work to take from this. I really need to go back and mine both Dexter solos for vocabulary....

May Madness: Like Someone In Love etc

So this month was about working on taking some licks around the cycle and playing through Like someone in love as well as this short and sweet solo by John Patitucci on Like Someone in Love. I had some struggles notating the last 4 bars but really got a lot out of the solo especially the fast double time lick over Dmin7/ G7#5 at first ending. That is one of the licks I took around the cycle. Also kept playing previous solos from this year and worked on blues ideas. I am just posting the solo for now.

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