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Swing Thing

Posted Wed, 12/28/2011 - 01:58 by patricia mifsud
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Sorry this is such a last minute entre-a bit confused with the time difference etc. The backing track is a Swing in g i've had on my ipod for ages & with some help from my son recorded it on garage band. Hope not too late.thanks again for another great challenge!!

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nice swing feel

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by hank stefaniak - 01/16/2012 - 10:06

Liked what you did for head and emphasized notes (stops?) consistent melody lines throughout. Good one!

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by Gary Smith - 01/02/2012 - 17:12

Good usage of track to compose head... a bit rambling

Well played Pat!

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by robfraser - 01/01/2012 - 07:57

What a great jam track to work with- where did you get it? I like the style you're applying here, not so much heavy blues as light, almost country-ish swing. Some good octave technique and I love the head!

Thanks Rob

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by patricia mifsud - 01/01/2012 - 13:20

Thanks for listening-the Jam track I downloaded from http://www.jamtracks.ru/en/mpjam_blues_misc.html. I liked it when I first heard it.

Thanks David & Mark

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by patricia mifsud - 12/29/2011 - 22:50

Thanks for your encouragement-I did hear that (tone,embouchure) as soon as I played it back but as it was only (mostly) mistake free recording & was running out of time I stuck with it.I didn't use my bullet mic which I'm now comfortable with & it thinks it stops me from wah wah ing everyone which is a bad old habit I have. I really did have fun doing it-thanks again for taking the time to listen!!

Ditto what Dave said! I like

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by Mark Hummel - 12/29/2011 - 16:46

Ditto what Dave said! I like the way your repeating your lines here plus a nice head with accents.

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by David Barrett - 12/29/2011 - 14:42

Here we go!

CH1 - Nice head... great use of the non-standard chord changes in bars 9 and 10... the use of 3' and 3" was great
CH2 - I like that you repeated the head
CH3 - I like the 1 draw focus note... be a little careful when hitting a non-bent 3 on the IV Chord
CH4 - Good
CH5 - Good idea to use 2/5 texture
CH6 - Nice lick here... at this point I'm starting to want tremolo... it makes some of phrase ends flat
CH7 - Nice 3+/6+ octave and like the dynamics
CH8 - VERY cool 4/7 texture... nice walk-down idea
CH9 - Nice walking... some dips on the 4/5 combos would be nice... that's how we normally present textures like that
CH10 - Head returns... great playing for the ending

What a fun song... a pleasure to listen to with a real sense of theme and movement throughout the piece! Add some tremolo/vibrato, dips and open your embouchure a bit for a bigger tone and you've got a #1 hit!