Recent content by Bainbridge

Yep, plain old V i in C minor.

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Yeah, dude. That's a diatonic progression.

Oh yeah. Some of my Baroque keyboard music has that, and oddly enough one of my Beatles songbooks as well. Is that something that's still in practice? Speaking of archaic musical symbols, I've always liked this one:

Link, please? You've piqued my interest. We're talking modern notation, right?

No problem. I was reading through your response and thinking, "Wait a minute, this sounds familiar..." Undoubtedly, the US has made great contributions to music on a global scale. The same goes for Hungary and Cuba, if you want to talk about underdogs. Nevertheless, I for one am glad that the...

Of course. I am agreeing with you.

There is the matter of timing, though. Italy, Germany, France and England all experienced the Renaissance. Moreover, those countries dominated the Renaissance. One could say that all of the other European nations were culturally overshadowed by those nations. It was during the period from about...

Lunga - Long. A long note. Breve - Brief. A short note. Semibreve - Half of a short note. Minim - From Latin "minimus," shortest note possible, I guess. Crotchet - Looks like a hook (crotchet). Quaver - Because it sounds like the voice/instrument is "quavering." Semiquaver - Half of the same...

In John Braheny's "The Craft and Business of Songwriting," the author offers "medium" and "tedium" as a rhyme. I suppose there is no accounting for taste.

Yep, keep writing. As a composer and teacher, I look for strategies to write under any circumstances. There are some things that will always work. It's so easy to put down 16 measures of a generic drumbeat, write down a handful of chords that make sense, then flesh out the rest of the music. If...

Well, the tempo is marked quarter = 126. If the person writing it wanted something different, they'd write something different.

As others have said, "chart" is jazz vernacular for sheet music. Typically, a chart will have the chord changes notated above the staff for purposes of improvisation. When I write charts for rhythm section, I typically do chord symbols and slash notation, plus standard notation when I want...

[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] You're welcome. +1. Musicians like to believe in magic and will cease at nothing to complicate that which is inherently straightforward. So... what is "locking in with the kick," then? In any ensemble, everybody contributes to the rhythm. Most of the time...

Audiation, imagining sound, is an important skill to develop. Transcribing a solo by ear alone is a time-consuming effort, and you certainly need to have a lot of know-how to do it effectively, but you don't have to start with transcribing Dexter Gordon and Bird. Take some tunes that you know by...