SwiftZephyr
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I'd like to know any advice that would help me improve my counting while in jazz time. How can I become aware of what measure I am in? Need help because I'm going to be auditioning for some jazz ensembles at my college.
I'd like to know any advice that would help me improve my counting while in jazz time. How can I become aware of what measure I am in? Need help because I'm going to be auditioning for some jazz ensembles at my college.
Also, why'd you call this thread "trading fours"? Trading fours is the technique used between two soloists who "split up" a solo, each playing four bars at a time...kind of like a "cutting contest." In other words, instead of a 16 bar drum solo and a 16 bar trumpet solo, the drummer will solo for four bars, then the trupeter (usually building on the idea in the drum solo), then back to the drummer, then back to the trumpet player, etc.
I assume he meant playing across the measure in different time groupings within an overall 4/4 (e.g. four groups of three). I have heard this called trading fours before - but might have misinterpreted what they meant.
I assume he meant playing across the measure in different time groupings within an overall 4/4 (e.g. four groups of three). I have heard this called trading fours before - but might have misinterpreted what they meant.
Know the tune and be aware of where the melody/progression is at. When soloing, think of the head and how to sculpt your impromptu masterpiece in relationship to the music.
BTW, what exactly is "jazz time"? Is that like, "Hey, I just got back from a trip to the east coast and I'm still on New York Time."? Or, is it like, "He's always late. He's on musician's time." I ask because you used it like it's a common term, and yet I am unfamiliar with it. Please enlighten me to your vernacular...
Know the tune and be aware of where the melody/progression is at. When soloing, think of the head and how to sculpt your impromptu masterpiece in relationship to the music.
What I'm asking is for how to develop this skill to count, or if possible, commit to feeling the pulse of four bars automatically. .
But the hardcore exercise for this is the 2 to 50,
I believe that is a hemiola.
Care to elaborate? I have heard this excercise referred to before, and infer it's on the level of big exercises like the Stone Killer or running table-of-time style subdivisions. What does it entail?
You set your metronome to 120 quarters per minute. Play 2 bars of left hand quarters, 2 bars of RH quarters, then 4 on the left, 4 on the right, then 6, and so forth, until you have done 50 bars with each hand.
I'm concluding that everyone is saying to just keep the hi hat going. I'm assuming it's more a practice and develop the skill thing. Or maybe I should just right down a compilation of four bar licks to use for a situation of trading fours. I don't know I always end up too short like I end up at the a of 4 on the fourth bar or I drag into the other instruments' four bars.