Recent content by ihassiphilus

So that gives him the right to insult someone because people think he's special, obviously. If he decided to call you an idiot, why it must be true. I mean, he's one of the more knowledgable members. All it sounds like to me is he has his nose stuck way up into the air by having people stroke...

Ah, attempting to play dumb. I'm not going to stoop to insulting someone because I don't agree with them, however. Talking out of my ass? I'd say that would be a physical impossibility. Also, stop putting words in my figurative mouth. You seem to advocate the popular method of learning...

So it's acceptable to insult someone because you disagree?

:rollno: Incredibly childish, aren't we.

Good thing I didn't say anything about transcribing solos and that Parker et al didn't transcribe them, eh? :rollno: I'm saying, don't bother with walking lines. I also didn't say don't practice, I said stop thinking about it so much. Parker's oft-quoted saying still holds true.

It basically mean to cut out most of the middle frequencies in the sound and to boost the lows and highs. The middle is the body of the note, what you hear. Bass is more or less mids as far as it's overall sound in a band (drums and percussion are the 'bass' as it were). Scooping mids is often...

I didn't say to stick to them 100% of the time. I just said that they should form the basis of walking lines and should be studied closely.

You're over-thinking a relatively simple process. That's why so many people think walking and jazz are harder than they actually are. Why spend so much time analyzing and thinking when you could be playing? Charlie Parker never sat and picked apart what he did. He played. Same with Carter, Brown...

Fellow GTA dezien I see. Damn windy today, eh? Anyway, as I was saying, you play three or four notes per chord and sometimes less. It's not especially complicated. You really don't need to transcribe a million or even a dozen ways of playing root, third, fifth and perhaps something else...

Thank you! Finally, people with sense start posting lol.

I'd like to add: If you look at Ron Carter's book on walking and listen to his tunes he plays, he isn't playing much besides R,3,5 and some chromatics, inversions etc. Why do you need to transcribe that? Also, if you memorize Autumn Leaves, you're not learning how to walk through a...

So memorizing tons and tons of standards and probably thousands of licks is more sensical than simply learning some common chord progressions and the associated chord notes/arpeggios? All Carter, Blanton, Brown etc are doing is generally playing the notes of the chords (C9, Adim, Dm7 etc etc)...

All you need to do is know what notes comprise a given chord and how the chords fit together (E to A to D or Em to A to D etc etc). You don't need to memorize 'all these patterns'. You don't have to play much more than chord tones to make a good walking line. Of course, you can throw-in...

Alright cool. Waste your time, then.

Listen to the piano player. Figure out some of what he's playing and base it off that.