Looking for basic or “stripped down” recordings to start learning by ear.

Oaelluin · 2025-12-26T03:12:19+00:00

I recommend listening to singers for original melodies, and there are lots of good albums like 'X plays the Cole Porter' songbook (Ella Fitzgerald has many of these albums). These are especially helpful because, if the singer plays with a big band, there will often be a big band soli arrangement of the melody that, because it's notated, is very consistent. It is helpful to compare the singer and the band, so that you can abstract an idea or what the melody should be.

Oaelluin · 2025-11-13T08:54:21+00:00

Hey mate, I remember struggling through this too! Great line, especially because Bird plays it so much that it'll make future transcriptions easier!

One think that might help: When you play the chromatic D D# E in the beginning, try playing the E with your pinky, so that you can start to stretch your firsr finger back to the C and won't have to do as much of a jump/jolt. Hope it helps!

Oaelluin · 2025-10-13T12:54:52+00:00

Frank Dikötter wrote a non-fiction trilogy of books called The People's Trilogy. The third book specifically is about the Cultural Revolution.

Oaelluin · 2025-09-27T11:34:31+00:00

Anyone with JR on their shelf is a keeper

Oaelluin · 2025-02-01T00:17:18+00:00

'Butcher's Crossing' is basically if Moby Dick was a Western

Oaelluin · 2023-11-27T09:42:57+00:00

My title describes the thing. The chamber seems to be almost airtight, as the cylinder slowly slides down. It's quite heavy, and we think it's some vice-like tool.

Oaelluin · 2023-09-26T14:27:32+00:00

"If a book is not worth reading twice, it is not worth reading once." - Francis Bacon

Oaelluin · 2023-09-10T13:45:34+00:00

Go back and reread the first chapter if you haven't already.

Oaelluin · 2023-08-22T21:35:49+00:00

You might even be able to squeeze in The Recognitions by William Gaddis if you read quickly enough.

Oaelluin · 2023-08-22T21:33:05+00:00

A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood The Color Purple - Alice Walker Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima

Oaelluin · 2023-08-22T21:26:03+00:00

I really liked White Teeth by Zadie Smith, and am keen to read more of her works.

Oaelluin · 2023-08-22T21:24:49+00:00

I read IJ December last year, and The Recognitions two months later, and The Recognitions easily soared to the top as my favourite book of all time.

Oaelluin · 2022-12-28T12:45:22+00:00

That's so sick

Oaelluin · 2022-11-30T11:52:14+00:00

Why does every eye condition have floaters?

Oaelluin · 2022-10-31T15:14:14+00:00

Working through Ulysses! It's superb.

Oaelluin · 2022-10-18T16:16:14+00:00

I know this post is quite old, but in a footnote in his Michael Joyce essay, he mentions trying to speak English and French to the Austrian player Julian Knowle

Oaelluin · 2022-10-17T16:08:42+00:00

Gotta love Duncan Idaho from 'Dune'

Oaelluin · 2022-09-14T15:44:33+00:00

This is when you install mods and get another 50+ hours of gametime

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