July 4, 2005 at 7:48 PM

Happy red white and boom day everyone!!!

Most of you know that I am trying to write music for violin that combines jazz mixed with classical, improv with structure and alternating between diatonic ideas and using altered scales and I try to study as much music as I can so that the music I write will be more robust.

I think I burned out with all the notes I have been reading the last few weeks, Ive never read so much music all at once before. Things are going very well, last week Ron and I played alot of music and studied a few more tunes, this is a review of last week and what will be studied this week

week 4 (this wednesday)
to study:
four
green dolphin street
love for sale

week 3
music played:
naima
a night in tunisia
there will never be another you
maiden voyage

music studied:
django
all the things you are

-After this week Ron and I will focus more on the music of Bill Evans and we will start to study his style of playing. We will be learning many of his pieces including "Very Early", "Re: Person I knew", "Waltz for Debby", "Peri's Scope", and many of the standards he plays like "My Romance", and "My Foolish Heart". And we will also be studying out of a book called The Harmony of Bill Evans and also work out of many of the Bill Evans transcription books like this one and this one and this one and this one.

Regarding jazz recordings:
Misty - is on the peterson perlman cd - oscar peterson is a great jazz pianist who recorded with grapelli of course, one of the greatest pianists in jazz for sure.
Four - is a miles davis tune on a sonny rollins cd called live at the village vangard.
Dolphin Street - is on the miles 58 cd
Love for sale - is a cole porter tune also on the miles 58 cd
...all other tunes have recordings listed on my previous blog

Im a little burned out on reading notes I think the next few weeks will be just alot of playing and more focus again on violin and studying bach, so you can see its a give and take between jazz and classical for me.

Another thing I have been doing is programming music with my cakewalk software, I have been recently goofing around with trying to create music for a video game and thats kind of fun. Cakewalk Home Studio integrates notation tools that allow you to create and print your own musical scores. Record and transcribe performances using any MIDI instrument, or just point and click to edit notes directly on the staff. Print up to 24 staves per page, with chord charts and symbols, lyrics, dynamic markings, and more. This is only one function of the cakewalk software...

...now if you'll excuse me im going to go looking for a bow that costs more then my car, that and I want to be a hilton

cheers
scott (muggle violinist)
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From Pauline Lerner
Posted on July 4, 2005 at 7:52 PM

Your musical endeavors sound wonderful. It's great to be fluent in more than one genre. Your jazz playing will affect your classical playing and vice versa. All your music will be richer. Keep telling us what you're doing.

From Laurie Niles
Posted on July 5, 2005 at 4:51 PM

Sounds like a fun project, Scott!

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