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I made the mistake of playing this file while my office manager was in the room. She's still rolling around on the floor laughing. Thanks...? dB mwahaha

I think it's time to laud our forum's moderator, dB. Really. So here's I tune I produced, just to honour Dave Bryce. It's a blues, and to make it sound authentic, in my opinion it needed a) bass guitar b) acoustic guitar and c) distorted vocals. Unfortunately I can neither play the bass, the guitar or sing. I did it anyway. So bear with me while I sing about the beauty of our moderator's previous avatar. http://www.divshare.com/download/4913493-5dc Right. You may ask youself: has this guy nothing better to do? Well, of course I have. But boring arrangement exercises, practicing piano and other stuff are to me not half as much fun as producing crappy music, so...

LB, that's good news! SK, I know I'm late, but I have to give you my sincere compliments for your "minor" piece. Simply the way you manage to establish such a groove in solo piano leaves me stunned. Way cool

An ass? How many blonde jokes are there? One, the rest are true stories.

Here's a work not by me, but by a good friend of mine, jazz pianist Daniel Krautmüller. He studied in Berlin and Cologne with Frank Chastenier, current pianist of the WDR Big Band and Wolfgang Dauner, the famous German free-jazz pioneer. Daniel did an amazing job on "Giant Steps" this time. Personally, I wouldn't believe you could make this tune sound new and fresh until I heard it: Giant Steps, or "Riesenschritte" , as he calls it.

you're not obsessed with something, are ye?

A woman is in bed with her lover, who also happens to be her husband's best friend. They make love for hours and, afterwards, while they're just lying there, the phone rings. Since it's the woman's house, she picks up the receiver. The best friend listens, only hearing her side of the conversation: "Hello? Oh, hi... I'm so glad that you called... Really? That's wonderful.... Well, I'm happy to hear you're having such a great time... Oh, that sounds terrific... Thanks. Okay. Bye bye." She hangs up the telephone and her lover asks, "Who was that?" "Oh" she replies, "That was my husband telling me all about the wonderful time he's having on his fishing trip with you."

On reason more to hate Esnips. I've put it on divshare: http://www.divshare.com/download/4848506-20a Hope that works.

Way cool this thread's still running. Here's a contribution of mine: Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are". Changed some chords an' this an' that. By the way, Dave Horne, I write better lyrics than Ira Gershwin all the time. Here's some: I like gals who are wise and precise with wonderful thighs and deep blue eyes I like gals who can sing and swing who know how to dance like the real thing I like gals who are pretty and witty the rest is shitty, believe my ditty I like gals with a certain style while they're fresh and juvenile

Clare Fisher Attack! The intro already is enough to keep me drooling for some minutes. Very cool... Thank you! Linwood, that's Maiden Aloha Voyage 'Oe! Killer! Oh, and I don't know if it just escaped me, but since today divShare has an inbuilt player, which means I can finally work up those 12 other pages fulla great music.

Here's the sheet to Black Orpheus. I've remade the first 16 bars and am not yet ready with the last 16 bars. http://www.esnips.com/doc/bd041928-d22f-476e-9152-6427d91f8a95/Black-Orpheus No chords over the notes, I'm sorry, but giving Finale chords more complex than Mi7 is a nightmare. I've always put the root as the lowest note.

If I'm getting you right I shoulda played rather easy voicings, right? No big alterations, just some schtraight chords? I think I'd be capable doing that

hm, maybe I voiced them wrong?

Problem is, in my reharms unexpected simplicity won't work cause the whole reharm is actually pretty simple I really appreciate your suggestions but I'm afraid it won't work well in the context I already have so far because it is not "deep" enough. So the clarity your bridge brings with it doesn't shine as bright as it could (wasn't that poetic). What I'll definitely keep in mind is the thinking that stands behind your suggestion. I actually tried to do some contrasting in the bridge of "How long has this BGO", where I simply used some D and G triads (I think it was like that) as opposed to the rather heavy bitonality applied in the chorus. Well, at least that's what it is to my ears. I think we have some years of experience between us, SK However I always try to follow what you've been doing (or linwood or Marino or Miles Davis or Wayne Shorter or even Paul Simon) in hope to develop a similar capability of hearing. Well back to work... And all those names in a row look pretty cool, too

Thanks! The 'bridge' I had constructed went Dmi7 / Ab7 / | G7 / / / | Cmaj7 / F#dim / | Fmaj7 / / / | Bsometh. / / / | E7 / / / | Ami7 / Cmaj7 /| Bmi7b5 / Bb7 / | The Bsomething in is a somewhat basie-ish sounding chord consisting of B - F - A - C# ... so I guess it's just a Bmi9b5(omit 3rd)

Printing it right now!! I've got a version of Black Orpheus that I made following some of the great suggestions out of the "mi7b5"-thread, I'll post that later after digesting your BB, Linwood

now that's something for dem woman posters

That is sweet madness, especially as I just transcribed some of the solos by Carl Fontana over "IIOHABrain" (I play trombone, too *hides and runs*) and got those West Coast licks in my mind. Those double time moments crack me up, as the original idea of the tune SK, Dave, and Marino, thanks for all you're suggestions concerning OTR, I will work out a new version of that tune, as it's now lifted to a higher level Linwood, I don't think that is new to YOU , but I like to harmonize some of those notes before the "landing" as the #11 of the chord, so if you have e.g. "G" in the melody, put a Db7 (#11) underneath it. Also works nice with 13, but I prefer the sharp eleven. As a nice effect I also like to take a chorus of those tunes and put them in the parallel minor tonality. Works out fine sometimes. my 2 weak american $ cents

the copyright stuff? I've got the feeling they've got some algorythm there that analyzises the structure of the mp3... I tried to upload something, was denied and gave the file another name. It didn't work until I heavily edited the file (meaning cutting stuff and fading the end). DivShare ain't working for me, so I'm not gonna recommend it to you . There's a site called rapidshare, but IIRC they're pretty mean to... I think you can only download a file 5 times an hour or so. So if five people listen to it, the sixth one has got to wait Edit: Of course I could try to upload it onto my esnips acc, but I'm not sure it'll work

You seem to have no feel for real art whatsoever Like this. Bob Dylan goes Smooth Funk. I think the song's worth much more after the treatment Okay, I also dug out some notes I made for a reharm of the Gershwin tune "How long has this been going on". Someone told me about those wicked bitonal slash chords like B/Bb, so I stuffed some of them into the tune... Hear my plastic jazz trio...

My piano teacher keeps referring to the bridge as "the heap of sh*t this guy composed" maybe it can't ever be played in a cool way? *nudge nudge* Marino, thanks a lot for the critique and suggestion. I really appreciate it. I gotta pickup as lot jazz as possible, stuff it in my head and hope someday it'll all come back Beeboss, David veeery nice! I took the freedom to pass the myspace-link to a friend of mine who studies composition. I'm sure he'll love your 'derangement' as much as I (I? me?). Unfortunately I got a problem with the divshare site, too. There's so much stuff popping up... I thought firefox was safe. I'm gonna update and try later

This thread is getting better and better... OK, finally eschnips accepted my mp3 so here is a wall of synths playing "This can't be love" by Rodgers/Hart. For the sheet, clonk here. I also reharmed Over the Rainbow some months ago in a more jazzy way. If anyone's got suggestions, especially for the B-part of the tune, you're very welcome . Hear me stumblin' through the changes or read the chart.

yeah, nearly... maaaan, my jaw just dropped so hard I gotta pick it up from the ground

Wow, another very cool thread making this forum an even bigger treasure chest. A big fat For uploading stuff, I use esnips, the positive thing is that you can upload audio as well as all other kinds of files. Here's a reharm that turned out not so jazzy at all. I like to pick up those really old jazz standards and put them into a new costume. For example, I gave "This can't be love" a prog-rock, phil-collinsish outfit. Here's the lead sheet as the above praised esnips won't let me upload my audio file because of "possible copyright infringement" Gotta figure out another way...

So Linwood, is that a real sax? If not, wow, and what software? If yes, wow too I recently bought a MacBook, and it came with GarageBand already installed. Until I have some funds for Logic 8, I'm doodling around with this little program. It has surprisingly many features (some of them very well hidden) and also has a nice arsenal of Midi-Inschtruments. Some of them are really usable, IMHO. Here are the upright bass, the jazz drum kit and the rhodes sim of Garageband. I put a tiny bit of distortion on the Rhodes to fatten it up a bit. Played the 1000 year old Johnny Mercer-standard "Namely You" as a waltz. Please forgive the quirks and blurbs.... still learning The Rhodes also sits nicely in a mix with some more instruments. Here's a tune by Pee Wee Ellis, "The Chicken" with a nice fretless bass, rock drum set, an okay electric guitar (with tremolo, distortion, tons of echo) and a not-so tenor sax It was pretty surprising for me that this little program carries lots of very usable sounds, many of them don't need to hide behind rompler sounds from a, let's say, Yamaha P250 and the like. The acoustic piano however, is WEAK!