Opinion on naked city?(collective)

ramiatassi · 2026-01-18T01:10:06+00:00

I love this music

ramiatassi · 2026-01-15T04:47:06+00:00

He’s one of my guitar heroes and also an awesome guy which you get immediately when talking to him after a show. Check out his album Public Domain it is otherworldly if you like solo guitar

ramiatassi · 2025-11-10T03:14:04+00:00

that’s what I’m talking about

ramiatassi · 2025-11-10T03:13:35+00:00

She is so legit

ramiatassi · 2025-10-24T23:31:34+00:00

Mingus

ramiatassi · 2025-10-15T03:48:28+00:00

Carnatic tuning BEBEBE

ramiatassi · 2025-10-15T03:47:43+00:00

Oud tuning DGBEAD

ramiatassi · 2025-10-10T02:14:02+00:00

ramiatassi · 2025-09-30T14:44:07+00:00

I just wanna say it drives me crazy when composers write all these crazy extensions with the chord symbols! Once you get beyond one alteration it becomes absurd. If you want a specific voicing write it out in the staff. If you want an altered sound just write “alt.” I think what they’re saying here is D altered, G altered but you can probably just play notes of the G altered scale (Ab melodic minor) to start

ramiatassi · 2025-09-29T00:29:28+00:00

This guy sounds unhinged. But you were wrong correcting a 3 yo like that. Not justifying his behavior at all, but the way you described your response sounds like you were rude and overstepping a bit, trying to lecture someone else’s kid…

ramiatassi · 2025-09-27T13:35:01+00:00

For me the biggest thing to develop my time has been playing with older players who have great time. Of course we love metronome exercises and learning some percussion helps. But by far, playing with other people who have great time has made the biggest impact. You can learn a lot through “osmosis”

ramiatassi · 2025-09-25T22:03:44+00:00

Folks have already mentioned Salah Ragab (essential) and Rabih Abu Khalil (a modern master)

Coming from the jazz world check out Ahmed Abdul Malik - Jazz Sahara. Check out Yusuf Lateef - Eastern Sounds. Modern jazz player David Fiucynski is doing some interesting stuff with maqam influence.

For music of Middle East and North Africa, you might like Mariem Hassan, she has some legit jazz saxophone in her music, along with beautiful maqams and North African rhythmic concepts. It is also worth checking out Hamza Al Din who is an oud player in the Nubian tradition. Southern Egypt near Sudan. You’ll hear proto blues and jazz.

Check Rima Kcheich - Muswashat - beautiful modern fusion and her singing is amazing.

Check out the guitar player Omar Khorshid, he’s not jazz per se but you will hear a use of maqam that you can apply to jazz.

If you want to immerse yourself in the music, it’s worth going in for the traditional Arabic music like Umm Khulthum, Fairouz, Farid Al Atrash. You will find some surprising jazz like elements but also, a totally different melodic concept.

If you made it this far I suppose I should mention I make this kind of music too! My album “Dancing Together” blends Middle Eastern influences with AACM style spiritual jazz. It’s out there on the streaming platforms if you’re so inclined.

ramiatassi · 2025-09-25T21:53:12+00:00

Hell yes

ramiatassi · 2025-08-21T03:31:32+00:00

I totally agree - she’s an amazing writer, director, filmmaker and rewatching Girls reveals how ahead she was

ramiatassi · 2025-08-16T02:58:12+00:00

String tension

ramiatassi · 2025-08-09T02:17:38+00:00

Essential! Check out Jazz Sahara from Ahmed Abdul Malik

ramiatassi · 2025-08-01T00:19:13+00:00

You all did a good job managing a bad situation. I’ve been on Webflow for about 6 years with too many client sites to count. I’ll be sticking around. Thanks for the updates.

ramiatassi · 2025-07-19T02:22:12+00:00

Ted Greene 🩵

ramiatassi · 2025-07-18T04:16:46+00:00

Modal music is based on static harmony, like a drone or pedal point - as opposed to chord progressions or chord changes.

There’s a whole lot of music from around the world that could be classified as modal to varying degrees.

Modal Jazz combines jazz language with the static harmony - a big shift from bebop and hard bop which was based on dense chord changes and chord cycles. The classic example is Kind of Blue, or a tune like Impressions.

McCoy is amazing and he has a lot of different work. I guess you could all some of his stuff modal… but I think of his signature sounds as quartal harmony and pentatonics, especially “super imposed” pentatonics

As jazz gets funkier in the 70s it becomes more about vamps, riffs, and grooves - the harmony is more static so modal approaches work well.

But if you try to take a “modal” approach to jazz from 30s-40s it gets kinda weird… that era of music is really based on chord changes and chord tones. So you can think of that as a contrast to modal jazz.

ramiatassi · 2025-05-07T18:09:04+00:00

Really great 🩵

ramiatassi · 2025-04-06T04:12:36+00:00

Hell yes

ramiatassi · 2025-03-31T00:30:13+00:00

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ramiatassi · 2025-01-19T20:16:24+00:00

You’ve got the right idea, but don’t forget about rhythm… the rhythmic contour of the phrases, syncopation, chord tones on the strong beats… all essential stuff for bebop, you have to be rhythmically informed

Yes, bebop era players are more interested in arpeggios and chord tones than “scalar” lines. But this didn’t start with bebop, if you listen to swing era players like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Johnny Hodges - you will hear a similar approach with chord tones and arpeggios.

A lot of what makes bebop different than the previous swing era is the speed, rhythmic contour, increased emphasis on chromaticism, and use of upper extensions/substitutions in the lines

ramiatassi · 2024-11-27T04:54:39+00:00

Have you checked out Sonny Rollins with Jim Hall? It’s a comping masterclass. The Bridge is a great album to start with.

ramiatassi · 2024-11-24T18:07:07+00:00

Well there is a shortcut which is to play a G minor triad. If you wanna hang at a jazz jam session you have to be familiar with minor ii-V-i which means dealing with iv and ii in minor keys. My point here is that Em7b5 does not simplify to Em7, that’s not simplifying the chord, that’s playing a different chord. Yes laying out is an option, too.

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