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Nice Chris thank you
Jx
Nicely done
Beautifully pacedHi,
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6518653/Cafe Saxophone/Round Midnight.mp3
Cheers,
Guenne
No F# KeyHi again,
I did not succumb to the "Selmer itch", altough this is indeed a beautiful saxophone.
I tried it and will return it next week....(at least I think I will)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6518653/Cafe Saxophone/Round Midnight SBA.mp3
Cheers,
Guenne
Nicely done
A couple of the same deep note problems I have... I'm told long notes are the key
Me gusta mucho'Round Midnight from a rather different perspective. Different but good (IMO).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6518653/Cafe Saxophone/Round Midnight SBA.mp3
Cheers,
Guenne
Oops, so you did! Senior moment here ...Didn't I already post that link? Am I having a de ja vu moment?
Thanks @Chris for providing the sheets, sounds and general chivvying that is the backbone of BOTM.... and IOTM for that matter
Don't underestimate your contribution you are a star and I love that avatarThe guys that post music are the backbone Ivan, I just try and give them the tools to do it.
Chris..
As it's now May I can't comment... except to say nice meaty takeSneaking in just before the month-end ... No time for endless takes, this was literally (literally!) the first take. (Not to say I hadn't been playing it over and over again without recording)
I have to say I found this very difficult, particularly the timing (as in a previous discussion, slower tunes leave you little room to hide any timing issues), and then the improv section was very tricky to get around. But I am glad to have done it, that's for sure.
https://soundcloud.com/saxplorer/round-midnight
Thanks to Chris and Ivan.
A Mr T Monk tune from 1940's-ish
The eponymous film was released in 1986. It showed in a tiny, plush cinema in Marylebone where it enthralled a callow youth called Ivan. The pace is slow, the story tragic, the music wonderful and Dexter Gordon plays his character and his tenor equally brilliantly. Since then the tune Round Midnight has been one of my desert island discs
I had thought it was Dexters version that I carried in my head but after trawling through online versions I realise it's Dexters tenor sound combined with Bobby McFerrins notation that creates my personal ear worm... by the way McFerrin sets out the tune and the mood in plain sight www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4nVDKeVxok. I went to see @aldevis play in Edinburgh last year and oh joy, oh rapture he played Round Midnight...superbly.... the evening was complete
Many thanks to @Chris for providing notation and backing track. He wrote down some helpful playing tips, none of which I understand (something to do with triplet eights and sixteenfs... I'm sure he'll explain).
Bb sheet
Eb sheet
Backing track
Due to certain things BiaB's notation won't do.
The first three notes of bars 16, 25, 27 need to be altered to 8th note triplets, just make it one solid beam tying them together and put a 3 above It has been pointed out that bar 13 and 37 need the 2nd note C to have a # added and the Eb sheet should have the G changed in the same wayCheers Chris..
Improvisation? Chris's sheets show a murderously complex chord progression which is probably best to ignore (am I allowed to say that?). It doesn't seem to be the hardest tune to improvise to if you just throw notes at it. Every note in the tune played in any order seems to stick and if you think a note is bum (it won't be) you can hold, repeat or move on and the fast changing chords will catch up and make things better
I'm very much looking forward to hearing y'all various takes on this tune. Please yield to the urge to embellish and improvise. I think it's a tune you can mould any which way yet still it's recognisably Round Midnight. I shall be in and out of this thread casting nasturtiums or being encouraging or whatever takes my fancy. Against my better nature I'll try to be constructive.
Enjoy
Ivan
Ps. Here is my contribution
I'm not particularly fond of playing ballads because they expose my considerable inadequacies of intonation and general saxmanship. As soon as I saw that first terrible low C on the sheet I knew I would struggle... and despite practicing the low volume C over and again I invariably produced a squelching noise.
Pps. Any one else think it ought to be apostrophised: 'Round Midnight? I must read that book by Lynn Truss
Ppps. Molto grazie Alun for a well steered March BOTM
Pppps. This is not an April fool (honest)