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SYBB COVID19 Newsletter Issue 4

Hi SYBB!

Hello SYBB jazzers!

Video recording (Music Hub project – Wake me up)

I hope some of you have managed to have a crack at the recording thing I sent

recently. This is a different skill indeed! Here is one that has been done really well:

Yorkshire Wind Orchestra If you are interested in the Tech side of these recordings watch

YWO documentary. Note that to make is sound good, the audio was extracted from the visual,

mixed and EQ, reverb set separately, blended and rendered, then the master track played at the

same time as the visual.

Transcribing:

This takes a long time, but it is worth sticking with – develop those critical listening skills! Analyse

and learn from great chords.

Please send your arrangements here: [email protected]

(midi (.mid) files get through the firewall ok)

Practice and Technique

This week is all thinking about playing. I think that to be brilliant you need to focus on:

Mental: Thinking and imagining the sound you want to make / role in the score

Physical dexterity: Training the Brain / fingers to do what you want, when you want

Physical production: Breathing, muscle strength and stamina (body and embouchure)

Watch all of these videos and try some exercises for yourself. You can learn from all

instrumentalists. A trumpet player can learn rhythm from a drummer, a sax player can learn

breathing from a trombonist, a trumpet player can learn finger control from a saxophonist, a Pianist

can learn space and phrasing from a guitarist etc. Forgive me if the one for your instrument is too

simplistic, or too advanced. I have tried to pick clips that will encourage you to think as you play,

and have some new ideas to add to your repertoire. Playing is intellectually so much more that a

load of notes!!

Practice on Sax: (Scales and Blues) Walter Blanding and Jimmy Cozier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anq26tezBSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w204DBCkfas

Practice on Trumpet: ( warming up) Kenny Rampton

https://youtu.be/DBRPh4VaT2g

Practice on Trombone: (pedal notes and embouchure, breath control) Marshall Gilkes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQhiLjWMqU

Practice on Piano: (Flexibility) Jools Holland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYTtFHANUs

Practice on Guitar (and how the rhythm section swings) Wynton Marsalis Masterclass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi27zn7YNFo

Practice on Drums: Article by Buddy rich discussed by Dick Cully

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7BMN6LdUfQ

When you have watched all of these, and there are more……. Follow the links that interest you……

https://youtu.be/CkDgW2-xV2khttps://youtu.be/yz7fMUpcLpkmailto:[email protected]://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anq26tezBSkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w204DBCkfashttps://youtu.be/DBRPh4VaT2ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQhiLjWMqUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYTtFHANUshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi27zn7YNFohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7BMN6LdUfQ

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Some more listening………for fun

Tiger rag - Bob Havens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp7U9vod3qs&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR11JUs_rBa1xeOgtcJ

vZlblPnnG_Xeed0zlMSy3nuuFzuc_e-1hQegJl8w

Here is something a bit more light hearted! So much fun with a trombone…. Don’t get your leg stuck

Travis!!

African fantasy – Bobby Montez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKqAcaP3ROE

Great Vibes (the instrument), piano and some lovely timbale action.

The Creep – Ted Heath and his Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKqAcaP3ROE

Something for everyone, basically a 12 bar blues, but so much more!

Exercises for you to play

I enclose my favourite exercises. Tom, do you play piano, or tuned?, I think you do.

Pianists – do these in unison with both hands – I love the challenge of trying to find good fingering

(if there is any) to this exercise in every key. I tried it again this morning, and tied my fingers in a

knot

Feel free to take up or down the octave as you wish. Play with a metronome. I have included 3

versions in different clefs and octaves. Let me know if you want the Sibelius file to adapt, and I can

email it to you.

Thanks for all your hard work. I hope you are finding these letters useful.

Take care, keep safe, and keep playing. You never know when you will have this much time to

devote to your instrument!

Feedback for me

I hope you have found the stuff I have sent you interesting, useful, and supportive. Being a musician

is a funny thing. We do hours of work and practice on our own, to make it better when we play with

others. At the moment SYBB can’t do the thing I love doing best – playing great music together. I

have tried all manner of online things in the past, and have found most of them to be a poor

substitute to making music with others, so for this reason I have tried to include things that will

develop your playing without being in the same room. I would like to know it I am getting it right,

and if you have any other requests of things for me to include until we can gather and make music

together. Can I ask that anyone who reads this newsletter SYBB members/ parents/ friends etc

fills in this brief survey to help me plan for the rest of the year and include more of the stuff you

want and enjoy.

Many thanks. Keep safe and keep playing!

Dave J

SYBB

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Exercise 1: repeated pattern in every key

There is no such things at a difficult key, just an unfamiliar one. A sequence of notes is

not more difficult, simply because you press a different series of keys, it just feels strange

because you are not used to it. Variants of these exercises have been used for at least a hundred

years by expert musicians to develop their skill. The secret is to to play them well.

If you brain remembers what it does the most (repetition learning) then repeat it perfectly.

In practice this means:

1) Use a metronome set to a speed you can comfortably play the entire exercise without hesitation

2) Increase speed by a few beats, then repeat it perfectly.

3) Stop and decrease the speed when you start to hesitate.

4) Play from one key to the next without stopping. I have merely labelled keys to help you centre

your sound and brain.

5) Try to learn and play each exercise from memory. This helps you think and feel about note

sequences in all keys equally.

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Charlie Parker said "Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born"

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(I like this as a heavy swing)

Remember each of these is as much a brain exercise as a technique thing.

If you get bored and want more of a challenge, introduce an articulation into your sequence

KEEP IT PERFECT - if you play in incorrect, slow the metronome a touch, then do it right

10 times. Start anywhere you like and keep repeating it.

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