Transcription Challenge

 This is from the same killer Oscar Peterson recording that Kadota's Blues is from. Live at the London House 1961. Must of been a good week. This again reminds me that Ray Brown is indeed one of the best jazz players around. SO much feel and chops... Going to need to work on this for a lot longer.

Another in the Chet Baker series. This one is about at the edge of my chops or beyond but one I think I can take some nice phrases out of. I love how he can make such an impact in a short solo.  

I am a little disappointed with my choice here.  Turns out there were no magic chord voicing hidden in this one.  Standard piano shell chords.  Kind of weird/hard to transcribe, fairly easy to play.  I feel like I should have lifted the comping under the bass solo instead.  Oh well.  My takeaway is that very little chording information is needed to imply the changes.  I need to devise some exercises for interspersing comps into my single line playing.  Still love this solo though!

  Once again, I bit off more than I can chew.  This type of guitar playing demands constant articulation (picking every note).  Players like Jake, Mike Stern, and Pat Martino can pound out these type of lines effortlessly.  I usually rely on left hand legato, lots of slurs and pull-offs to play with any speed.  An added bonus is that this transcription challenge highlights weaknesses and deficiencies. And apparently one of my hands needs some attention.  Slowed it to 95% to get 'er done.

 Back to Masakowski again.  G Blues this time.  Years ago I lifted part of the chord solo (poorly) in the final chorus.  I always wanted to get back to the entire solo.  Some tricky double time passages in this one, but have seen some of these types of phrases in other solos.  That's the nice part of doing multiple solos from an artist.  An ok performance here, but probably could spend a few more days on some problem areas.  "I'll Pass" it on to you now... (oh..hahaha, my side).

 This is a solo I've wanted to do for a long time. Love the whole recording. Short solo but very melodic. Perfect really. I'm a bit off on a few parts but  will work on this more.  

Again Chet Baker....I know enough already....however I really like his motivic development and I have always been unable to really make a good solo over Stella. It is short so I played it down the octave then in thumb position. Attempt #1 Attempt #2