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    Let's hear it!!! Post your music here!

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    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. :freak:

    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...

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    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 :thu:

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    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.

    OT: a bit a humor, chime in with others!

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    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."

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    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

     

    :):wave:

     

     

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    Here you are, Leberwurst, one Black Orpheus to go:

     

    http://www.divshare.com/download/4136294-d5c

     

    Just the basic tune, with those chords on the bridge.

     

    Clare Fisher Attack!

     

    The intro already is enough to keep me drooling for some minutes. Very cool... Thank you! :thu:

     

    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.

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    Yeah, the bridge you have there is pretty standard and works well. The one I mentioned is an unexpected simplicity (basically triads with the 3rd in the bass) that sounds strong in a different way.

     

    Problem is, in my reharms unexpected simplicity won't work cause the whole reharm is actually pretty simple :laugh:

     

    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 :wave:

     

    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 :D

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    Leberwurst, just for the heck of it, one thing you can do on Black Orpheus: on the 'bridge' where it goes to Dm (key of C) play Dmaj/F# (D over F#) G7 C7/E bass Fmaj7 Dm E7 Fmaj7 E7 (a bar each) and back to Am. A pseudo-authentic classical groove.

     

    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) :)

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    Here's a 'lil something , just to contribute. In another thread someone asked what else you could play instead of a m7b5, so I put up a piece of "everyone's favorite"

    Blue Freakin' Bossa

     

    Nothing crazy, but maybe a useful treatment for someone. I'll try and put something else up with audio sometime, but hey I'm lovin' what you guys are doing here.

     

    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 :wave:

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    While we're on mad scientists, here's a reharm of "If I Only Had A Brain" - this by my baritone sax buddy Glenn Wilson. We've done this together a million times, but I'm not on this track. He took the tune and added Giant Step's changes (actually Countdown changes) and a riff from Seven Steps To Heaven. So it's entitled "If I Only Had 7 Giant Brains." http://www.jazzmaniac.com/FRBrain.mp3

     

    :laugh: 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 Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    I absolutely cannot get Esnips to work. The quest for online hosting continues.

     

    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

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    I'm still recovering from that Johnny Bowtie that Linwood linked to... :freak:

     

    You seem to have no feel for real art whatsoever :D

     

    Like this. Bob Dylan goes Smooth Funk. :laugh: 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... :freak:

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    If I get time I'll try and add some options for the bridge.Good job.

     

    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

    The Reharm Room

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    Wow, another very cool thread making this forum an even bigger treasure chest. A big fat :thu:

     

    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" :P

    Gotta figure out another way...

    Let's hear it!!! Post your music here!

    in The Keyboard Corner

    Posted

    So Linwood, is that a real sax? If not, wow, and what software? If yes, wow too :D

     

    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 :crazy:

     

    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!

     

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