1) Losing myself in the world of interactive group improvisation, When everything is right; when I am on and not injured, on a great instrument, with great players and friends, with any size appreciative audience, or none at all. 2) … Continue reading
I feel bad. I feel (textures) badly. (due to nerve damage in my fingertips) I am good. I do well. I am bad. [subject-pronoun linking-verb adjective] I do badly. [subject-pronoun … Continue reading
Jam Band Camp Notes Charts Lead Sheet: just melody and chord symbols on paper, no arrangement and minimal form. Fake Book: A book of lead sheets for well-known tunes, jazz standards, etc. Harmony Diatonic: Based on major and minor seven-note … Continue reading
Music Theory is to Music what Physics is to the Universe; it’s an explanation for the way things work. Most of it is not theoretical; it’s something improvisers and composers put into practice every day. It grows over time to … Continue reading
I am going to explain the strange math in nature that requires us to “temper” our system of pitches in the chromatic scale. There have been many different ways of tempering our tuning system going back to the Renaissance, including … Continue reading
Back in my days at Opcode Systems developing Music Notation software, I was a big believer in descriptive variable names. I did this partly so I could understand the code myself, as opposed to some of the genius engineers at … Continue reading