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Folks,Lots to report since my last note to you. I completed the ever missing Chord lesson in The Lessons a few hours ago. I have an outline posted of the Chord Progression lesson which I'm going to complete next. We've had some very nice compositions submitted to the site recently. A new composer John Shaw-Rimmington has submited three new compositions since the first of the month: Hymn For Him, Morningside, and Cyclamen. Brent Holl, a new member who works with students at a middle school in Virginia, submitted two pieces he wrote collaboratively with his classes and one which is his invention alone: Jewe (the Gathering), Jamaica Jazz and Cooking Light. All this compositional activity on the site got me enthused so I wrote a new one called Timeline. John Shaw-Rimmington liked a cycle of mi7(b5) chords that I posted in preparation for the chord progression lesson so I wrote an exercise to demonstrate what you could do melodically on the cycle, Cycle Melody. John's Cyclamen uses this cycle also. Members are starting to use Song Discussions in intersting ways. Joep Blom wrote to the discussion on February 5th proposing alternate changes for Blue Bossa. I typed us several Blue Bossa variants based on his suggestions and linked them to the Blue Bossa page in The Changes. The Changes as of this moment lists exactly 400 chord progressions. Did a boatload of them since I last wrote to you. Check out the calendar in Song Discussions since January 6th to see how busy we've been. I'll list the new changes at the end of this message. The list of Frequently Requested Composers on The Changes seems to be a big success. Users seem to have a lot more success finding what they're looking for with that addition. I feel bad that I've been neglecting The Rhythms lately. I can tell that a lot of folks visit the site just for those. I'm thinking of reorganizing the rhythms list so that all of the versions of one rhythm done at different tempos show up under one title, akin to how different chord changes orchestrations are listed under one tune title in The Changes. Also, I'd like to go back through all of the posted ensemble rhythms and post each part separately. Rhythm folks, let me know what we think of this. Hope you all have a pleasant and musical weekend,
Dave Luebbert Here are the new changes listed: Lennon and McCartney's Hey Jude, With A Little Help From My Friends, Yesterday and Fool On The Hill Harold Arlen's Over The Rainbow and Out Of This World Billy Joel's Just The Way You Are Wayne Shorter's Footprints and Deluge Jobim's One Note Samba, Once I Loved, If You Never Come To Me, How Insensitive, Meditation and Zingaro A bunch of I Got Rhythm variants: Charlie Parker's Anthropology, Sonny Rollin's Oleo, Duke Ellington's Cottontail and I Got Rhythm jazz variants 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 Jerome Kern's The Way You Look Tonight, I'm Old Fashioned and Long Ago And Far Away Richard Rodgers' Blue Room, Where Or When and It Never Entered My Mind Brubeck's Take Five Charles Mingus' Ecclusiastics Frank Loesser's Inchworm and If I Were A Bell Don Raye's I'll Remember April Jimmy Van Heusen's I Thought About You, Imagination, Like Someone In Love and It Could Happen To You Ralph Rainger's Easy Living Irving Berlin's Cheek To Cheek Cole Porter's Everytime We Say Goodbye, I Get A Kick Out Of You, I Love You, What Is This Thing Called Love, You Do Something To Me and You's Be So Nice To Come Home To Thelonious Monk's Criss Cross and Ruby, My Dear George Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm Arthur Scwartz's Dancing In The Dark Cliff Burwell's Sweet Lorraine Victor Youmans' Tea For Two Charlie Shavers' Undecided Ben Oakland's I'll Take Romance Victor Schertzinger's I Remember You Harry Warren's September In The Rain Kurt Weill's September Song Arthur Herzog's God Bless The Child Marvin Fisher's When Sunny Gets Blue Ram Ramirez's Lover Man Howard Bart's Fly Me To The Moon Dave Luebbert's Earthly Beauty blog comments powered by Disqus
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