targets this week

learn and transcribe 2 more choruses from Blue and Brown.
Bring up spead on this tune.
Learn B section of Full House.

to transcribe

Don Byas' solo on Anthropology from his Night In Tunisia album would be a good one to get you into rhythm changes. (thanks to Sax on the Web)_.

Sonny Rollins, from Collossus. Autumn Leaves, Cannonball & Miles. Courtney Pine.

1st january - Targets for the year

I have been learning the solos of Clifford Brown on Blue and Brown, a blues in F with an 8 bar "round the houses" bridge every two chorus. I am using Transcribe! and writing it up into Band In A Box (BIAB). I bought a new mouthpiece for the holiday. It is more open, a 7, and am enjoying using it immensely although it sounds different every time I play it.?

This week I will complete the transcription and learn the solos.

For this year I want to:

1. learn at least 12 standards.
2. learn and transcribe 6 solos.
3. work on minor 251s.
4. work on the blues.
5. work on Rhythm Changes

This means that I can have a monthly schedule. The other golden target is improve my timing so that I am playing in time. Alan Barnes said at the summer school that timing and sound are more important than the notes you play. The more modern players tend to have split second timing and it really makes a big difference.