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Hey Knots
Many thanks for your great comments.
I've changed the C7 and 2 of the A7s, so I hope they sound more interesting to you now.
Do you think the A7b9 with a b5 sounds too weird as the chord bridging the A sec with B1 sec ?
With the scale over A7b9b5, do I use Ab maj (rather than staying in D min6) ?

http://www.box.com/s/y04l7p9y80q35g1mzpfy

http://www.box.com/s/atje59xu7vgh30ddbyus

Could I please also confirm with you that for the arps for the lydian dominant chords, that I can simply use the dominant arp ?
e.g. Bb7 #11 chord: use Bb7 arp
G7 #11 chord: use G7 arp

[btw: I am still laughing at Dave's title Like Some Juan ?]

>> Aren't Book 2 tunes difficult.

scary tunes. I made a right pig's dinner of it today. I have no idea how I managed to record that. Needs work.

>>[btw: I am still laughing at Dave's title Like Some Juan ?]

Me too.

>>* ii-7b5
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* The 3579 doesn't always work as great. But try b3 b5 b7 b9

I just tried this, sounds good. I suppose the thing to remember and know was the flat 9. Everything else is flat anyway. The flat 9 I would never have guessed, but it does sound cool.

custard, I look forward to hearing your new tune with improv and all!

Hey Knots
Please ignore what I said. I've realised why my chord alteration sounded weird. I should have used #5 instead of b5.
The #5 fits in better with the melody which has an F in it.
Using #5 also fits in really well with the D harm min scale.

Also for the last bar of the B1 sec, I'm now using A sus b9 instead of just A sus (2).

Cheers
cus

That ought to keep the jazz snobs away for a while!

haha Knots.
Let us know how you go with Dave and Keith tomorrow.

oh no !!!! I can't believe it, I'm so sad, I didn't even know Brad Mehldau was playing in the suburb next to mine last week.

http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/jos...lian-delight-surprise-ecstasy-2012-01-23

Friday in the synagogue sounds like a lot of fun. Bet acoustics would be better than some of the huge concert halls.

You have no idea how many concerts I miss ...

I love the sound at Carnegie Hall actually, it's really awesome. We have 2 concert halls within 20 minutes of my house, one if the Kennedy Center, and the other is the new Strathmore. Both are also amazing. These rooms are acoustically so perfect.

I wonder how Keith is going to be tomorrow. I'm ready for anything.

Sitting 1st row with perfect view of his hands was like getting a private lesson. He was like "Watch!, now watch this. Look how I can make all those melodies come out." The guy was so fluid and flawless, the most beautiful thing. People of all ages were there. Lots and lots of 25-35 year old guys. One kid came out pulling his hair saying "Oh no, my mind has been blown!!". That pretty much summed it up for all of us.

Big thanks to Dave for the wonderful tickets. You wouldn't want to sit anywhere else!

Sounds like the kind of concert you'll remember for the rest of your life.
The best masters always seem so contemporary.

The mysterious confluence in an encounter with Keith Jarrett is the utterly awesome and unbelievable convergence of a *human being* and *perfection*. To experience the two together, for hours on end, changes your perception of reality and of human potential. He was the full hero tonight, musically and
personally. We were a part of history, and it was sublime.

Dave Frank

You must be very happy that you decided to go again this year.

Did Keith do a mixture of uptempo and ballads ? Or would you describe his songs as a totally different genre ?

wow. there's nothing like live music.

Ok, change of pace.
About a year ago, I decided to learn how to read. One year and 10 minutes a day later, here's a piece I recorded a couple of days ago.

http://www.box.com/s/9ne0zg6xz3xxn5fs439t

It's not sight read, and far from perfect, but let's just say that, without the music, I wouldn't know what to play (apart from the first chord or 2). So it's definitely read.

So that was from sheet music, written out?

Congrats Knotty. You've been very disciplined keeping this up for 366 days.
Were you reading from a fake book or was it your own arrangement ?
I think it's great how you could also read the LH.

neither, it's a written out arrangement. Kind of plain, but ok.

That's a good skill to have. I always find sightreading difficult at piano because there's so much going on.

Well, I'm in the middle of Bb so here is some improv Bb-Gmin.

http://www.box.com/s/qvgt3dyiegszmmdixm2j

I kept the recorder going longer this time. There's one bit in the middle I go atonal - I think my hand just went into the wrong key. I have tried the slice of pizza but it just grinds me to a halt. once I was going fine saying 'slice of pizza' but had stopped playing completely. Listening to my recording, I am fighting that metronome like no-one's business.

I'm not playing Like some, Juan any better than I did two weeks ago, so I won't bother recording that one again.

I am getting quite addicted to the 3-5-7-9 arps thing. I could do that all day long. The family gets tired of it. They don't seem to realise, I get one key done, then I start all over with the next key. Silly them.

Hey 10,

That sounds pretty good to me. For some reason, I thought you were already on the next progression. But this sounds good. All those things you say will just get better with time. That's why there's no rush on moving the metronome up. As long as you keep that tempo for a good while, you'll start clicking with it better and better. But really, it was quite good already.

I'd say do all the keys we talked about and then move on to the next progression. There are only 2 or 3 more and then move on to tunes!

You're right, knotty, I am on the next progression (so now Bb, Bb7, Eb, Ebm, Bb), however, I find I also need to go back and do the 2-5-1's as I really don't know what chords I'm playing half the time. I can wing a scale over anything, but it sounds like a scale. Anyway I promised myself I would record improv every week. Sorry, this might be a slow process. I feel the need to get the chords into me, more than I feel the need to get into tunes. There's no rush, and when I get the progressions done well, I find them quite satisfying in themselves.