LIKEI didn't really care for soloing that much since I'm usually improvising a line anyway playing the changes. It's only the past few years where I've felt comfortable with soloing and I'm still learning. I have improved with looking ahead and seeing patterns in the progressions where I don't have to stop and think about every single chord. A little music theory is a big help!
I had a light bulb moment about 20 yrs ago with jazz. At the jazz camps, the staff was always talking about ii-V and ii-V-I progressions and how important they are but no one really explained why. Then I was playing some tune and realized I knew the next six chords without really thinking about it - a series of ii-V changes. Then I found I could generalize that even more across more measures depending on the tune of course. Then there are some tunes where the chords are "too close together" for me.
"All The Things You Are" is a great example of ii-V progressions. I also call this tune "All The Chords You Know". Here's a pretty good analysis of the tune:
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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We do a lotta requests if we know 'em. "Achy, Breaky Heart" is another 'fave'. I just go on 'oom-pah' autopilot and think of something else-like the wimmins's dancing.
NOOOOoooooo... Three things I would like to know - 1. what was Billy ray thinking right before he came up with that? 2. What was a record company thinking right before they recorded it? 3. What was someone thinking right before they bought the record? And one other: What did someone think after they heard all of it? "9-1-1. What is your emergency"?
I played bass in a community big band some years ago, mostly swing era tunes. Good group, good players but the guy who made the set list always had "Little Brown Jug" on there. I absolutely hated that tune but I played it as best as I could like any tune while thinking - Wonder what this would be like played as a fast samba? I'm hoping to get through the rest of my life without hearing it again.
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[StolenJoke] like when your doctor asks that question in the waiting room? [/StolenJoke]
[OriginalJoke] a groove I call On Double Secret Probation at Swami School [/OriginalJoke]
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Or, as the singing cowboy from our horse ride and campfire cookout at Big Cedar Lodge near Branson, MO put it:We do a lotta requests if we know 'em. "Achy, Breaky Heart" is another 'fave'
Greenhorn: Can you play "Achy, Breaky Heart?"
Cowboy: No. He wears his pants a little too tight for me.
Most folks seem to be there for a social gathering. They take selfies with their friends, talk, text, everything but listen to the band. I had good seats at a McCartney concert and the people around me were disruptive to say the least. The idiot in front insisted on standing on their chair before the concert started. Someone else complained. Turns out it wasn’t their seat, they were supposed to be in the nosebleed section. I enjoyed that.
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Nothing like a proper come-uppence!
Stanley Cup playoffs. Chicago Blackhawks vs. who cares. The (really) old Chicago Stadium with lots of steel pillars supporting the roof. Standing room only tickets also sold out. Almost game time. Place is rocking and rolling. I'm up in the third level, happy to be in the building. An usher walks past, followed by wanna be a trophy wife and Joe Goldchains. The usher unfolds two folding chairs behind one of the steel pillars and hands their tickets back. Wanna be a trophy wife goes out of her mind. Apparently, Joe Goldchains had misrepresented the seat location and quality. She storms out, followed sheepishly by Joe Goldchains. Much laughter all around! Love me some schadenfreude! Good thing. Blackhawks lose.
Had a similar situation at an outdoor concert that we paid $300+ per seat to get third row center-ish at Hershey Park, (Avett Bros, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson, etc...). A couple in front of us was standing there groping and slurping on each other, drunk on their asses. Why did they even come?
Everybody else was standing, too. The seats were standard metal folding chairs that were zip tied to one another. And, my closest audience member was a double-wide individual. What am I gonna say? Start a brawl? Bathroom lines a mile long...Might as well stay home and watch on TV for cheap.
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Great tune. We do it often.I didn't really care for soloing that much since I'm usually improvising a line anyway playing the changes. It's only the past few years where I've felt comfortable with soloing and I'm still learning. I have improved with looking ahead and seeing patterns in the progressions where I don't have to stop and think about every single chord. A little music theory is a big help!
I had a light bulb moment about 20 yrs ago with jazz. At the jazz camps, the staff was always talking about ii-V and ii-V-I progressions and how important they are but no one really explained why. Then I was playing some tune and realized I knew the next six chords without really thinking about it - a series of ii-V changes. Then I found I could generalize that even more across more measures depending on the tune of course. Then there are some tunes where the chords are "too close together" for me.
"All The Things You Are" is a great example of ii-V progressions. I also call this tune "All The Chords You Know". Here's a pretty good analysis of the tune:
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See and be seen. "Oh, there's a band?"
Your pushing it, Mister! You'll be in big trouble when your dad gets home.
And I didn't click it and you can't make me!
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Am I helping?.....Am I?...Am I?.....
Playing wireless?
I've played in a few big bands. I don't really care what we play as long as it's a decent arrangement. 2.5-3 minutes and it's over anyway.
EDIT: There was one band I was in for awhile wherein the BL had an arrangement of some standard I can't remember. What I do remember is that the saxes were in unison throughout the tune. What a waste...IMO.
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When your on the road, replace the bolded part with: everything but pay attention to their driving.
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There are a lot of songs I'd rather not play, nor imagine playing — ever, for anyone — and that's too slippery a slope to name even one. Best avoided.
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If ya live in FL, ya play it.(kinda the unofficial state song)
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