At 9:21 PM -0700 10/23/07, Hiroki Terashima wrote: >I can play clarinet! > >I *used* to be good. But I haven't played in 2 years and my fingers are >programmed to program now, so I'll be playing bad music. > >I like the idea of playing music. I'll bring my own clarinet. Can you bring >some music?
That sounds great. I just stated playing the clarinet a couple of months ago so I'm sure I could learn a bunch from you. Most of the music I play is jazz improv I make up or standard forms like blues, etc -- though I could write down some of the parts. I have a copy of a Real Book I can bring. That has lots of great Jazz. I've been trying to learn Sonny Criss's Black Coffee by playing it at half-speed (without changing the pitch) on my Mac using a program that analyzes the pitch of the notes (Transcribe: shareware). I could also transcribe parts of this piece by hand to musical notation which you could play. If I asked you to just fool around with an A minor scale while I played some guitar progressions would that make sense. I know that some people mainly just learn to play the music they read from a score. My Mom was like this -- she could sit in front of a complicated Piano score she hadn't seen before and her fingers would just make the music. Whle I can read and write musical scores I definitely can't do anything like that. Mostly what I've learned are chord progressions and types of melodic structures - so for example I think of intervals like a minor third or a dominant 7th rather than notes sequences and chord sequences like I-maj7h -> IV-min7. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAIL-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SAIL-Dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
