Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2018-04-24 04:09
Ray,
I think you struck on an important point (for folks coming from written music)...vocalist parts on some songs are very difficult to accurately put to paper (at least in a way that "makes sense" or "looks pretty"). This is true especially in pop and jazz...which is one of many reasons folks in pop and jazz don't rely nearly as much (if at all) on written music. Good vocalists rarely sing what is written, and usually scoop, slur, growl, elongate, shorten, stretch meter, etc. This is true way back, in pop music at least as early as 1910, and possibly earlier.
Evan Christopher has some nice videos on YouTube where he suggests trying to emulate the voice's nuances when playing jazz/pop tunes on the clarinet. Here's one of his most basic videos where he briefly touches on that topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JnXC3xxtww His videos about Louis Armstrong are great too.
Don't know if the above will interest you, but wanted to share it, just in case.
(If you do like it, here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpwAo-Wpiq0 )
Fuzzy
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