Won't be here for transcription lab, nor practice club, on Monday, so posting transcription here. Happy weekend all.

CHALLENGE! Record a version of this either in the original key of D in another key/a selection of different keys inside an improvisation over some changes (coquette could be a good one) Really this is a bunch of patterns within the D major Scale. It’s quite long and worth practising as a way of getting some “flow” into your playing. enjoy!

Tell us, what is the best advice that you have ever received that has shaped your music making? When I was first becoming interested in jazz , I was in the the last year of secondary school (in England this is often called 6th form). I had gone to a local polytechnic college as it had a decent music course. My composition teacher was a really eccentric trumpet player and electroacoustic contemporary classical composer. Great guy who also had studied jazz in the past. I asked him what the chords at the end of “There Will Never Be Another You” were all about. He said “that’s the question you will probably be asking yourself on and off for the rest of your life and you might never really have a definite answer, but that’s the job of a jazz musician” Whilst it didn’t answer the question as I had wanted, it helped me realise that jazz is for lifelong study, harmony is often subjective and that really there aren’t any right answers with any of this stuff. (I’d say though that the actual answer is just, a prolonged cadence from chord I back to chord I again, often done via a few chromatic dominant chords but that’s not really essential) What’s yours?

I chatted today in practise club a little about playing fast. For me it goes like this… Muscle memory (scales, enclosures and learnt lines)for eighth notes Your ear for more “soaring” long notes that are more melodic Think in rhythms above all else. In the session today We worked on playing a scalic line through the changes that goes from the top of first position, down to the bottom. Listen to me play here at my gig last night, I did something like that about 10 times… Pick a starting point and an end point on your instrument and change the scale you use to fits the chords. For playing fast, it’s really got to be something that fits under your fingers and feels good to play, otherwise it just isn’t coming out. It’s not quite “beautiful” music of course but it’s how I manage to keep up with creating something interesting at fast tempos. Message me or comment on this post if you want to try a practise club next Monday at 6pm.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7k2gO5VJzo4&list=RD7k2gO5VJzo4&start_radio=1&pp=ygUcc29ubnkgcm9sbGlucyB3aXRob3V0IGEgc29uZ6AHAQ%3D%3D