I just had an insight. Yesterday I sang 2 songs from the Jazz Std Rep for an audition. (Aside: intention matters. When it’s for an audition and everybody knows it, you sing so they know what you can do—tone, range, intonation, agility/flexibility, expressiveness, dynamics, phrasing, inventiveness, and/or whatever other musical dimension you can demonstrate you’re …
Oh, there’s good reasons for that. We’ve fallen into a trap, you see. The justification for funding education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is “it prepares our children to get a job in tomorrow’s economy.” And we don’t need justification for training doctors, lawyers, or financial gurus. Everybody nods their heads and says “oh …
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My last post about my Daily Song Project was over a year ago. I’ve become one of those bloggers. The kind that doesn’t keep up, that promises that they’ll try to blog more regularly… Wait, no I haven’t. Such statements smack if disingenuity, when I see them on other blogs. I’ll simply say: I haven’t had …
Yesterday was the first day that I’d repeated the previous day’s musical idea quite so closely. I’ve repeated myself before. Sometimes intentionally, but just as often “by mistake” (let’s call it “without conscious intention” instead). Similar tempos, similar grooves, pretty close on the tone-center, same mode. Melodic motifs—now there’s a pitfall. I’m discovering that I’m …
My Daily Song Project turns 0.4167 today. It feels like far too long since an update. People have asked: “what’s your process? how’s it going?” It’s high time I answer. It’s going fine, thanks. Heh, no, I’m not going to leave it at that. Read on for the gritty details.