saxplorer
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Well, John (gladsaxisme) has passed on the baton to me, for December. So I am very pleased to choose:
The ballad for this month is ....
I think, for me at least, the challenge here will be to find something new to bring to this, and not just end up with a poor approximation of the sublime original.
Chris has as ever, done the hard work here and has prepared some backing and some dots, see dropbox link here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/80gawko5l91uhqx/2l5ULbU1vI
(shout if that doesn't work for you)
The recordings I've heard have been in the form AABCBC where A and B are 8 bar sections and C is a four bar section, and there is no improv.
The sheets Chris has prepared (and the first version of the backing track) follow the form (4bar intro)AABCAABCA to make space for improv.
He also indulged my request for a version which ended with the C section, so the "ver2" version is simply (4bar intro)AABCAABC.
Hoping you all enjoy this relatively simple but very affecting tune, and I'm looking forward to hearing many versions, and wondering how on earth I can possibly do it justice, myself.
The ballad for this month is ....
Abdullah Ibrahim's
The Wedding
The Wedding
I think, for me at least, the challenge here will be to find something new to bring to this, and not just end up with a poor approximation of the sublime original.
Chris has as ever, done the hard work here and has prepared some backing and some dots, see dropbox link here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/80gawko5l91uhqx/2l5ULbU1vI
(shout if that doesn't work for you)
The recordings I've heard have been in the form AABCBC where A and B are 8 bar sections and C is a four bar section, and there is no improv.
The sheets Chris has prepared (and the first version of the backing track) follow the form (4bar intro)AABCAABCA to make space for improv.
He also indulged my request for a version which ended with the C section, so the "ver2" version is simply (4bar intro)AABCAABC.
Hoping you all enjoy this relatively simple but very affecting tune, and I'm looking forward to hearing many versions, and wondering how on earth I can possibly do it justice, myself.