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right now, i can see the image in my latest post (#1227703), but I can no longer see the images for my previous posts. I could see them earlier.

I suspect it has to do with google picasa. It's a pain to have to host the image somewhere then link it. Box doesn't give direct URL, unless you pay premium.
What's weird is I can even see the images in my RSS feed, which shouldn't be logged in to google. Google can be too smart sometimes. Let me fiddle with it some more...

pictures are really cool, it's so much easier to explain stuff on the sheet than C F B etc...

Why can't we just upload pictures directly ??

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pOCUCC2NuQ-LqMNcAK1oDA?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_x4ExpzXShlM/SlIbmOWv_HI/AAAAAAAAAKU/DHF6i5zIHDU/s144/jazzwee1.png" /></a>

Knotty, you can use Photobucket. That was my sample MOYD image.
The links may appear for you because you have rights to the link on your computer.

Funny, I replied earlier, but my post doesn't seem to have appeared.

So far so good, next question, if I am dragging the beat, do I drag everything? Do I drag the RH but not the left (my percussion)? Do I drag all my quavers along too (whether I am swinging them or not)?

'Good time' sounds like another phrase to be added to my vocabulary jotter. Where I come from, it has another meaning.

Tlt, that has to be the quote of the day:

So long as you have good time, you'll have a good time.

Jazzwee, will try photobucket.

here we go. Let's see if this works

Was wondering if that's what you meant by triplet Vs straight 8.

TLT, I hope you are having 'A GOOD TIME' practicing Good Time

Dragging means dragging everything yes. As I said, whatever it is you do, you must do it consistently. Sometimes dragging and sometimes not will sound like you have Poor Time.

Realize that 'Good Time' is kind of a musician slang. In conversation. "Hey man, your time is good...". I don't want someone slapping my fingers with a ruler and correcting me with the term GOOD RHYTHM. Not a cool cat term.

Another slang -- cats. Surprisingly, still in use and originated during the jazz era.

Knotty, I don't have notation software so I can't post music. But maybe create this for me. Show a bar with a series of dotted eights + a 16th.

Like this:

Example A. Triplet Feel
|8. 16 8. 16 8. 16 8. 16
vs.
Example B. Straight Eighths
|8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8|

Notice that in Example A, each pair of eighths is played like a triplet.

8. 16 uses the same amount of time as
16 16 16

Hard to make sense of this without notation...

Edit: '8.' is a dotted eighth. '16' is a sixteenth note.

I was about to say, they're not mutually exclusive....

tell me you can see this.

Way to go Knotty.

I see it.

Plus, I'm having a Good Time reading the posts here.

Clear as day, knotty.



... on the other hand, if I had too much of a good time, I might not be able to keep Good Time!

you meant same as
8 8 8 triplet?

No I messed up. I meant

8., 16
uses the same time as
8, 8
or
16, 16, 16, 16

with the dotted eight being the 3 16ths.

Funny how any discussion reverts back to swing...

Because of course it is the most difficult part of jazz. So leaving 'good time' for a moment (but never too long), here are some discussions on swing that highlight exactly what I've been saying here.

http://www.visionmusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=243&view=next

http://www.banddirector.com/printarticle/learning-swing-feel

As much as I try, I know swing can't really be put into words. But the words help to clarify what one is listening to.

Very helpful, especially the second one.

Question from a beginner. I know next to nothing about music theory. I've got a music theory book but it's too much to read it all. Which theory should I focus on first for jazz piano?

Here's my last contribution before I go away on holiday in a few days. I decided to take a break from Autumn Leaves and I've been looking at this instead:

http://www.box.net/shared/utku8xc9vx

It's the Groove Blues by Snidero, also played by Knotty earlier. I've been living, eating and dreaming this over the last few days, and I don't mind saying it's harder than it sounded at first. Listening to myself I realise I was rushing the metronome a couple of times, but I think it's without any major mistakes.

Recorded on my new toy!

TLT -- Excellent! Do you have the music for that, or did you transcribe it all? I worked on that piece in my Snidero book.

Great job -- I was groovin' right along as I listened.

Barb

oh well now, you've been busy! That was really good.

I'll make a few comments:
- first off that piano sounds REALLY good
- Your left hand was completely in control throughout, and you played it nice and light.
- I liked the metronome on 2 & 4
- Not playing with the track is a lot harder that with it. So kudos for that. I am sure you're finding that playing along to Washington & Irwin makes it a lot easier to get the groove going.
- Your first 2 bars were great, then you rushed the other 2 a bit, then back on time, then rush. That's ok that you're realizing that. That's exactly what you want. Be conscious when you rush, and when you're in. Jazzwee's article above talked about that.
- In the 3rd chorus, you played your notes staccato. That's not very common in jazz. Not idiomatic as they say. Keep your notes long and connected. The 4th chorus was much better to that extent.

That's a lot of good work in a very short amount of time!!

listening back to mine, I notice I play the 3rd chorus with short notes like you do. I believe I play it slightly behind the beat which is probably the difference.