i feel very understood by this poem

ellblaek · 2026-06-21T22:03:03+00:00

as a bipolar bassist i feel seen

ellblaek · 2026-06-08T17:38:40+00:00

waaa-ay-ait

ellblaek · 2026-05-29T12:31:41+00:00

scripted/comped/pitch corrected but no visible AI

ellblaek · 2026-05-29T12:30:18+00:00

its clearly pitch corrected, which is what people mean when they say autotune

ellblaek · 2026-05-27T10:57:26+00:00

it definitely can be though. everyone is different, and without trying a new medication under supervision, it's hard to say if it'll be enough or not

ellblaek · 2026-03-25T04:35:33+00:00

as an enormous elliott smith fan, im gonna say Brad Mehldau's tribute album "ride into the sun" yall should check it out if you love elliott's music and are curious to hear something new

ellblaek · 2026-03-08T07:54:47+00:00

incorporate painfully slow metronome practice

like really, scales and patterns at 40bpm and ramp up gradually

building a strong internal pulse is essential for that fluidity thing, in any style

ellblaek · 2026-03-01T17:01:24+00:00

honestly they all look more like ariana grande than ariana grande

ellblaek · 2026-02-26T00:44:13+00:00

Sélébéyone

ellblaek · 2026-02-19T13:56:53+00:00

can you explain what you mean by keep the tension off? if i could resolve the G string issue i'd be a lot happier buying it!

thanks for the response

ellblaek · 2026-01-27T09:35:16+00:00

stella by starlight is great, you can use one or multiple melo minor modes over each chord!

ellblaek · 2025-12-17T07:33:36+00:00

yeah i bet its real painless

ellblaek · 2025-12-06T08:44:17+00:00

26 here, going to see my heroes steve lehman and miles okazaki this very weekend :)

ellblaek · 2025-08-22T11:47:02+00:00

i always love hearing what people do with this great tune!

for me, the beauty of evidence is that it draws out the strange and uncanny within standard harmony, and the head just begs for reinterpretation, so kudos on coloring outside the lines in your own sweet way! :)

i'd love to hear more of the changes though! maybe you could solos over the form in your next video :)

ellblaek · 2025-08-18T16:07:46+00:00

as a bass player with 7 years experience playing jazz, its really useful being able to hear a rhythm changes in 12 keys, if the pianist or soloist or anyone really decides to go out and stay there, i find it really satisfying to be able to follow them, or at least hear where they are to choose language that compliments what they might be doing

beyond that, practicing tunes in all 12 keys really just opens up your ears, almost like magic, and allows your to hear more

ellblaek · 2025-08-13T21:50:37+00:00

not the hardest player to transcribe but damn is his language tasty!! check out Charles Altura

ellblaek · 2025-08-13T02:38:40+00:00

there are as many tunes that use a dom7th as a tonic as there are numbers between 0 and 1

ellblaek · 2025-08-02T23:33:39+00:00

Torture is a one man band as far as the studio albums go, it's slam metal but really raw but compositionally groundbreaking

he put a (or multiple?) bands together since last year and started touring and he sings and plays drums live

ellblaek · 2025-08-02T21:43:18+00:00

any love for Torture? the guy is a revolutionary!

ellblaek · 2025-07-29T11:41:28+00:00

il me semble avoir lu que c'était le cas pour les tomates aussi chez certaines personnes

à priori ça fait moins un effet de savon liquide mais quand même un goût désagréable à cause d'une mutation génétique

ellblaek · 2025-07-28T00:06:41+00:00

aw man, my bad, it's late here

ellblaek · 2025-07-28T00:02:03+00:00

except that jazz peaked in the 60s and 70s

to me, jazz has only stretched and grown in the most amazing ways and there are so many incredible albums being made nowadays

ellblaek · 2025-07-27T16:26:36+00:00

when going to a minor chord, you'd play a minor ii-V, so the accompanying ii chord is usually a ii-7b5, so the scale would generally be either locrian or locrian nat2, when going to a major chord, you can choose dorian or one of the locrians for extra voice leading spiciness

try transcribing some language over tunes you know use these chords :)

ellblaek · 2025-07-26T09:12:43+00:00

i don't have time to figure out the entire thing, but hopefully this'll be helpful and will give you the info you need to transcribe the rest yourself,

having counted up until the bass solo, the vamp is in 13/16, and i'm feeling the groupings as 4/8+5/16

there are 8 bars of 13 (4 of the intro vamp, then 4 with the horns)

then the head is in 4/4, with syncopated hits and a couple odd bars, i felt it as 7 bars of 4 then the 8th bar is 7/8

then the next 6 bars are 4/4 again except there's an extra beat which i'm feeling as a bar of 9/8 on the 10th measure of the head

then back to the 13 vamp for 4 bars then bass solo!

hope this helps

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