This one took me a long time, to make what you like about your music idols and break it down. Great video on how AUDIO RECORDINGS AFFECTS ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENT SOUNDS, Check this video out if you want a more in-depth idea of the different recording studio effects have on trombone sound. Michael Lake - Trombone Recording from his 'Alto Bone' youtube channel of the Jamey Aebersold Free Jazz Handbook is awesome, find recordings of your artist/instrument and start studying the recordings on songs/chord progressions you like! Finding Professional Artists to model from. You can forget this if you don't have a good mic and have to play over a rhythm section/big band! Let the microphone and speaker system do the heavy lifting, not your face lolĬheck out this great article from Antonio Garcia, ITA Journal My range and flexibility is much higher too since I'm not worrying about volume swelling my lips up from loud playing. Using a close microphone and playing at a low/soft volume, I can record a nice tone without having to play super loud and play lines that sound nice to me. Yeee!Ī lot of the trombone players I like listening to on recordings really don't have an edge to their sound, and can play very long and smooth musical phrases. Once I realized you have to keep your tongue in place and let the air go around it for the UL syllable, it allowed me to be able to doodle tongue! Legato just means the sound is connected, well since the air doesn't stop the SOUND doesn't stop either, even with an articulation. Quoting from page 2,"the tip of the tongue must remain in contact with the gum behind the upper front teeth." , picture of what the air does, goes around the tongue I'll have to post a picture it'll make more sense =) Basically, whenever you have to say Da start a new circle of articulations. I write in doodle articulations (like the book says on page 111, song 124) to transcribed solos, and circle where the next Da phrase begins, so I know where my doodle pattern must break for the line to sound right. Opened so many doors, thanks Bob McChesney! Learn from past success and keep the tradition going!ĭoodle Tonguing (fast legato lines like saxophone, trumpet, piano, guitar, etc for Trombone)īob McChesney "Doodle Studies and Etudes" There is a jazz poster tree, and it shows how all the musicians have influenced and developed their own musical styles. You wouldn't make up computer code writing software or made-up english words when giving a speech would you? It's the same with taking a jazz solo if it you want it to sound nice to the audience (and yourself lol). I see jazz improvising as using a jazz language, or really just like computer code or like english language. There is a reason jazz improvisors are great composers/arrangers, it's all the same material! 4 bar phrases? Arpeggios with some chromaticism in it? ADD THIS to how YOU approach chord changes when YOU solo. ![]() Then write it down(transcribe it)/(memorize on your instrument) to study and analyze what works over the harmonies. Now find how a professional jazz improvisor plays over it! Jamey Aebersolds, Real Books, iReal Pro AppĪre go-to sources to find chord progressions. ![]() ![]() When you take a solo you are playing solo melodies over the song form (ex.blues 12 bars, rhtym changes 32 bars, etc) His well-practiced melodic patterns are essential identifiers of his style." This preparation was absolutely neccessary, for no one can create fluent, coherent melodies in real time without having a well-rehearsed bag of melodic tricks ready. But his "spontaneous" performances were actually pre-composed in part. ![]() He found many ways to reshape, combine, and phrase these formulas, so no two choruses were alike. "Parker, like all important improvisers, developed a personal repertory of melodic formulas that he used in the course of improvising. Quote from Thomas Owen's book Bebop:The Music and It's Players, page 30, paragraph 2 I was inspired from the great book by Austin Kleon Show Your Work! and wanted to share my findings with anybody who could use it. Jazz Trombone / Jazz Improvisation and Educational InfoĪfter going to college and teaching in public education I realize jazz trombone still has along way to go! I made this website because I wanted to share the information I researched while in college, and if it helps anybody in the slightest way I will be glad!
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