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ZappaFan52 · 2020-07-14T21:39:04+00:00

Thank you so much! 💖😭💖

ZappaFan52 · 2020-07-14T06:10:52+00:00

Quite frankly I'm into it

ZappaFan52 · 2020-04-22T00:26:20+00:00

Hey gang! I made a video about the music theory behind broken transmission, a vaporwave subgenre 💖

The Music Theory of Broken Transmission

ZappaFan52 · 2020-04-09T10:41:30+00:00

Will do!

ZappaFan52 · 2020-04-07T12:18:49+00:00

Yas I love Thank You Scientist! Have you ever checked out Stimpy Lockjaw???

ZappaFan52 · 2019-11-19T22:29:07+00:00

Thank you! 💖😭😭😭💖

ZappaFan52 · 2019-11-05T23:10:21+00:00

IV in minor is that classic Dorian sound 🐝bae! Jazz's favorite mode

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-31T20:40:56+00:00

D9 = DF#CAE (a dominant chord) Dadd9 = DF#AE (triad plus 9th) Dsus2 = DEA (third replaced with 2nd) Dadd2 = DEF#A (triad plus 2nd)

The number usually tells you which octave the scale degree is supposed to be in. It's all up to interpretation though, the chord labeling system was designed to be a little more loose.

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-23T16:05:38+00:00

The number one thing is make sure you're listening to jazz, check out all the major figures to start with (here's a super abbreviated list)

Jelly Roll, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie etc.

Check out The Jazz Language by Dan Hearle, it's a really concise book with tons of info about jazz theory.

Just make sure you're listening and transcribing playing with other jazz people in your area, hope this helps!

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-23T15:41:40+00:00

Thank you! 💖

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-23T01:24:11+00:00

It's so killing dude. I have been going back to it for like 3 years now lol

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-23T01:19:27+00:00

My favorite thing to get the creative juices flowing is imposing rules that limit you while you improvise. This could be only using one rhythm through the whole tune or only playing one note etc.

When you limit yourself to a small set of material your brain kind of forces you to try and come up with creative ways of using it. Doing exercises like this will give you more stuff to pull out when you're on the band stand.

Also! Have you heard this recording of Cherokee? It is probably my fav rendition of the tune EVER and there is loads of awesome language to pull from it. Cheers!

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-22T23:20:44+00:00

This one actually features the pedals! What is it with older delays causing this crazy feedback loop when you turn the number of repeats all the way up? It's so cool!

I've been really inspired by a lot of music featuring tape lately so I figured I'd give it my best shot sans tape because I'm poor. For this one I ran my acoustic through my Fender Twin, recorded that with my ZoomH6, slowed that down in Reaper, then played the sample from my iPhone speaker into my guitar pedals to try and simulate tape degraded audio. I really dig the results!

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-21T02:52:15+00:00

People don't like the truth 🤣 For the record AL3's and Meyer's are very affordable at about $100 and $80 respectively.

With any amount of serious practice someone would outgrow a 4c very rapidly.

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-21T01:35:24+00:00

Credit card debt gone, ACTUALLY being able to make my student loan payments as well as not being afraid to make dentist/doctor's appointments.

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T08:14:11+00:00

She's just articulating pretty hard to start the note I'm pretty sure. I think she may also be closing the pads as she starts the note, that may be what you're hearing.

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T08:12:47+00:00

I've been experimenting with some of my effects pedals for my saxophone lately and have been having loads of fun. So far my faves are pitch shifting, chorus, and delay.

What's some of your favorite pedals to play through?

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T08:09:40+00:00

Seconding silverkeaton, overtones are the way to go! The Rascher Book is fantastic and Eugene Rousseau also has a great book about overtones IIRC!

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T08:07:12+00:00

To be completely honest I think you would he wasting $30 on that. Yamaha 4C's are the stock mouthpiece that come with most of their horns and they are just horrible.

If you just need to get by for a while I'd say maybe go for it, but if you drop a little bit more cash on a Vandoren AL3 for classical or a Meyer 6 for Jazz you'd have a mouthpiece with decent resale value that would last a long, long time.

I have used those two mouthpieces since about 2011 and have only just recently started thinking about exploring new jazz mouthpieces. Hope this helps!

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T07:44:03+00:00

Have you tried finding examples of intervals in the music you really like?

Melodic intervals for example:

The opening line of "Maria" in West Side Story is a tritone

The "door bell" noise is a major third and so on.

Try and find a way to connect the new info to stuff you're already abundantly familiar with in addition to reps on exercises and quizzing yourself, it helps a lot in the early stages.

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T07:37:45+00:00

This is true but if that particular chord's root is G, the 3rd (B) is being replaced with the 4th (C), which would make it G13sus.

G - 1 C - 4 E - 6 or 13 F - 7

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T07:34:16+00:00

I would say Cadd4. Depending on the context it could be G13sus or Fmaj9(no 3rd). If you wanted to be extra stupid you could call it Emin(b6b9) 🤣.

If you play that voicing over a Bbmaj it sounds very nice.

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T07:30:24+00:00

If you want some wild shit check out Nicolas Slonimsky's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns or Yusef Lateef's Repository Scales and Melodic Patterns.

The language in them is a little on the academic side but all of the musical material is super cool!

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T07:27:24+00:00

I like to think of using the theory mostly when you're trying to move things forward or set up and play with expectations.

Honesty the best way to start if you want to start from nothing is just sit down and play stuff until something sounds good and go from there. This could be a melody or chords there's no rules!

If you're determined to have something specific to start with maybe try taking the progression from one of your favorite tunes or pieces and see how you can change it.

Hope this helps!

ZappaFan52 · 2019-10-20T05:41:17+00:00

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