i became a life long Hedges fan about 4 bars intoWow it's good to hear from someone who's heard of Michael Hedges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3nFkH8TIp4
then i got aerial boundaries and thought, wow this guy found a jack socket marked "collective unconscious" and just plugged straight in.
faint heart ne'er won fair maiden and fortune favours the brave, Hedges is a lion.
now i'm turning green with envy...saw him in Ashland, Ore. about six months or a year before his death.
was he doing any of that amazing "dry" humour? he always gets me laughing.
ahhhh BrubeckLately I'm trying to play the drum part of Time Out by Dave Brubeck.
gotta quote Fagen
I hear you're mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes, I like him too
He's an artist, a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the new frontier
ahhh drums
you know Jeff Beck thinks it pointless to even think about a tour if you cant get a good drummer.
Holdsworth says it's often the drummer firing that gives him the impetus and leading where to go.
over the years i have noticed the same, good listening musical drummer and 90% of your troubles are over.
but when it comes to odd signatures Virgil Donati seems to have it down.
i reckon if you just listen to and play 5/4 for an hour or so a day for 6 months it'll seem a lot more naturalIt's in 5/4 time signature, which kind of messes with my brain.
i was listening to Parker's interview (very awesome)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3W8Ff_4oFg
when asked about his facility he mentions playing 11 to 15 hrs a day for 3 or 4 years
if you improvise it really helps
set up a sparse loop of 5/4 (maybe just a simple bass line and a shaker) and let it run then just jam over it again and again till you feel physically ill, then as soon as the nausea wears off grab the sticks and have at it again
i'm exactly the same, i played 4/4 so long it got ingrained
but i was always a Tull fan so thankfully i was aware that 4 wasn't the only number that needed investigating.
and i listened to "one of a kind" by Bruford so much that i wrote a song in 7/4 and didn't realise it was in 7/4 until i started to sequence it.
that must be key
to spend so much time in the non 4/4 signature that it feels like 4
but unfortunately for me "time is the enemy" (except when it's kept by a good drummer)
i cant think of playing with time without thinking of Vinnie Colaiuta in
Attack Of The 20lb Pizza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Ptb_BmD-0
see if you can last till 2:39 in and what happens next is just a thrill!
try counting as it plays OMG!!!
here's a vid of the great VC talkin' about a sting tune in 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uQmDS_9iI