17th may improvisation

17th of may
Working on 'So what' by George Benson:

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(transposed by Andrew Beveridge)

I started off my section with counting against the rhythm. An example of this was coming in at beat three as if it was beat one. It proved to be a little interesting. After the first time round i came in a little harder which now felt like it was picking up the pace.

It all got a little wooly. because of this i lots the notes and couldn't hear the definition of the frequency, this was bad as there are only two chords in the structure.

I tried to play around with velocity on the scat section 2nd time around. which was pretty cool. So far we have

• Against the beat
• Velocity

It was great hearing the band take things right down and  let the bass do some walking lines. It really added so taste to the song.

The drums section was amazing, everyone dropped out and let Steven go wild.

Third time around was harder, too many ideas and lines, I'm trying to do less and make use of the space, think the band is still a little loud.

This Masquerade.

We worked on the section that me and Gary done in unison, it works well but some notes are a little off due to me.

I then went into the verse with little scats at the end of each line, i then scatted the full 3rd verse.

Are we really happy here 
With this lonely game we play 
Looking for words to say 
Searching but not finding 
understanding anywhere 
We're lost in a masquerade 

Both afraid to say we're just to far away 
>From being close together from the start 
We tried to talk it over but the words got in the way 
We're lost inside this lonely game we play 

Thoughts of leaving disappear 
Every time I see your eyes 
No matter how hard I try 
To understand the reasons 
Why we carry on this way 
We're lost in a masquerade