Author: Markos
Date: 2017-08-18 19:58
Seabreeze. Of course I know what a whole rest is but sometimes the spacing of transcriptions is an issue, and in some programs those look awkward, so my personal preference is to do as I have. And I'm willing to bet Pete Fountain's mother called him Peter!!
Anyway, I found the rest of your post quite interesting. I am always surprised that most classical clarinetists don't have some curiosity about other styles of playing and types of music. And often, as I learned in grad school at Mannes, classical musicians just don't want to learn to use their ears to hear harmony, or understand it well enough to say, compose or arrange. You'd be surprised at the trouble grad students had taking very basic dictation of say two voices, bass and treble.
I go out of my way to train my students to hear and use their ears so they develop the trust that they need in their ability to hear and react.
By the way, I did get to spend some time with Alvin Batiste in New Orleans at the Clarinet Fest in 2001, he had his string quartet played which included him improvising in it. What an amazing and open minded guy he was. Now there was a guy that knew his way around jazz and classical equally well, and I suspect Jimmy Hamilton did as well......
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