SwingDJs

sorry... i reread my posts today and, despite my best intentions, they did end up a mess of gibberish. i spend so much time these days around third-year music majors that i forget how to talk like a regular person

no,, that's the title of the album http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002ADR.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg i'll look for LHB. i actually kind of dig manhattan transfer too -- what can i say. they could definitely use a better backing band. that drummer can't swing at all. but i disagree, anyway: LHR is totally...

oh, could be. i couldn't hear very well... 28.8 modem sounded like slim, though you're probably right

i am totally in love with close harmony bop singing groups... i can hardly keep from listening to those cds ALL THE TIME... lambert, hendricks, and ross -- the hottest new group in jazz! -- two amazing amazing cds... danceable? hell yeah. listenable? hell yeah. my favorites from that cd: cottontail ...

if you play -- what instrument? what style? inquiring minds want to know

LazyP wrote:This makes me buy no Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Andrew sisters at the moment.

Look for Benny Goodman Sextet stuff, or the new one-CD Charlie Christian comp. You can't go wrong. His orchestra might be a little more problematic, but the small-group stuff is golden.

The Yehoodi radio station ID has a background that sounds to me like a hip-hop remix of Slim Gaillard -- is this actually avaliable someplace in a full length song? Sounds like an interesting idea...

thanks for posting about AABA form - I'd say it was pretty common that the bridge (B) would be in a different key than the chorus (A) so it can be distinguished as the bridge right? And often it would be minor if the chorus was major and vice versus....... Short, non-theory answer is no, not necess...

someone told me "The Simpsons" is lydian

yes, hearing/playing this stuff is key, of course.

-yakov

ok sorry this is my last post today. "SWINGIN' THE BLUES" is a good example of what we were talking about before : the ambiguity of the "blue note." the MELODY includes an undisputably flatted (or MINOR) third, but the harmony is standard 12-bar major blues. meaning freddie green...

one more: a note on major and minor for music theory neophytes 8) A minor is the key I use for examples because it's all white keys. that is to say, it's the "PARALLEL MINOR" of C-major, which i hope everyone knows is the major key with all white keys. most songs, when they go from minor t...

speaking of the progressions -- i actually do think that major is more harmonically flexible. yes, any chord can be minor or major etc. but in major you can go to the 3 chord and it sounds like part of the progression -- in minor you go to the 3 chord and it sounds like you changed keys. check out s...

yeah, the F# is the flat five, but if i (or any number of recorded musicians) were playing or singing it i might hit it sharper than F# (but still below G). like you said, we're sort of trying to approximate the human voice which, of course, is not segmented like a piano.

-yakov

"Why Don't You Do Right" is in minor. It has that basic jazz minor chord progression -- i-VII-VI-V. you can play it on the piano, using all white keys (two beats per note): A, G, F, E / A, G, F, E, and repeat. (Same form: "Hit The Road Jack" and changed slightly in "Sixteen ...

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