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April 2005 Archives
Last night, we peeked at a few transcriptions:
-Michael Breker's solo on Impressions (you can find the transcription here).
-Tom Harell's solo on "I Can't Get Started" (find it here).
Mark Gray shared with us his charted out diminished-whole tone and m7b5 scales. I'll get those posted as pdfs soon.
When we were sufficiently inspired and confused, we played:
-Are You Real (Benny Golson)
-Whisper Not (Benny Golson)
-Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
On the last tune, as an exercise, we worked on playing eighth notes exclusively in our solos.
Here's a cool document showing and organizing scales:
Great source for free trumpet transcriptions! Very cool site.
