Jazz-Impro-03-06-BLUES

Jazz-Impro-03-06-OLHOS

I made this entirely on soundation.com in connection with a coursera course, "intro to digital sound design", February 2013.

Auf Wiedersehen

INSTRUMENT: Ukulele. Assignment 1 for the course Intro to Jazz Improvisation (Gary Burton), coursera.org, May 2014. I attempted to use these scales:

A
Tabs 1-4: G Locrian, C Phrygian, F Dorian (x2)
Tabs 5-8: D Locrian, G Phrygian, C Mixolydian (x2)

B
Tabs 9-12: C Dorian, F Phrygian, Bb Ionian (x2)
Tabs 13-16: Ab Mixolydian (x2), G Mixolydian (x2)

Jazz-Impro-05-08

I made some mistakes here and there, e.g. in A Lydian flat7 and F7 Altered and probably more, but I didn't have time to mend it.

Instrument: Ukulele. It has a range of about 2 full octaves, or a little more, and I want to play from the root note of the scale and an octave above that, so it's a bit difficult to fit it in sometimes (especially B Lydian; I find it quite difficult to play such a small instrument up there at 11th-14th fret).

The tone I am playing below the scales are the root of the scale played with a software instrument in GarageBand. This is called a "drone-tone". I heard it's a good idea to play the scale against the root, or perhaps against the chord to get the feel of the scale.

    A Lydian flat7
    C Locrian
    F7 altered
    D Dorian
    B Lydian
    Eb Aeolian

Jazz-impro-05-15

Mostly the C pentatonic scale for the assignment, but a slight bend on the Eb, the penultimate note to give it a bit more of a blues feeling.

I forgot to add: The instrument is a ukulele.

Musicianship-05-16-assignment-6

Instrument: Ukulele. This submission is a patch of about five stretches of improvisation. I made 10 recordings, split them into passes through the piece, and picked one from each pass that I felt was OK.

The range is quite limited, about two and a half octaves. The very first note, D, was difficult. I produced it with a flageolet (seventh fret on the fourth string). I could have made it with the 17th fret of the first string, but this was the best I could do.



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Jazz-impro-06-05-B

Jazz-impro-06-05-O

Written for fawm 2013 (cf. fawm.org/fawmers/bong/). This was intended to be in the style of Michael Jackson, so I started with a bass riff, now forgotten. The title was supposed to remind you of his Liberian Girl as a joke. It ended up as two verses + chorus, a bit like Tom Lehrer — but unfortunately I don't play the piano yet.

Librarian Girl

We Can't Be Together Anymore

VERSE
There's something I've got to say to you
Something that's been on my mind
I know what you did
This is it

CHORUS
We can't be together anymore
We can't be together anymore
We can't be together anymore
We can't be together anymore

NOTES: This is an excercise

MGriebel-Bong-2 We-Can't-Be-Together-Anymore

2013: Exercises for https://www.coursera.org classes: Songwriting (March+), Intro to guitar, Intro to improvisation (both May+).
Songs written during FAWM 2013 http://www.fawm.org, February.


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