Ella Fitzgerald, she doesn't look like how she sound. Tha was my first impression seeing her. That was at Macormick Place, Chicago in 1967. She was backed by Oscar Perterson Trio. So, I remember. But not sure now. Tha was piano trio anyway. That is sure thing.
Till then I have heard her with big bands. That was rather noise to me and I was not the eagar listner of her. But this session gave me the quite different sound that I like. One is that her scat sound much more vivid that that with big band.
Listen to this one. She is beautiful. I won't send his kind of high notes to Ella for sure or rather I'd be quiet and let base to the work. That should have been much nicer.
Nov 27, 2009
Hey, this kid's genius. It is amazing that he can keep this tempo. Yeah, this is kind of tough tempo to play. Besides, his left hand is doing excellent job. I envy him that he can do this far already, do you not?
I'll add a little bit comments on what's happening to the children of this country. It can be said with two words; Over protected!
Children in general are under the wing of mother. Those mothers, the age between 25 to 35 were the yields of baby boomers. How were they, I mean baby boomers?
Husbands had been company men. They go to their income source early in the morning and come back home late at night. They devoted all of their energy to the company.
Children were left home with woman who does not have enough social training basically. The problem with those mothers were that the school background has had the utmost priority. There were not enough ethic mentoring nor basic human relation mentoring to their kids.
The outcome was the kids who do not respect public rules like; Obey your parents, Pay respect to law and ethics, There's someone who watch over you anytime, types of social training.
Children will be selfish, rude to unknown persons, have the anti-social tendency. Why do they do that? Because they were not able to have appropriate model during their infancy.
OK, but this boy, I bet he could become a person who has nice social behavior. Reason? Because he ride on rhythm, don't you think?
There are part 1 and 2. And whole lesson consists of 5 sub lessons.
Lesson #1: This lesson is to upgrade your bodily response to the rhythm. You tap on your lap with your hand alternatively. As you speed up the tempo, your non-dominant hand tries to move with your dominant hand. Thereby misses the beat. It becomes apparent as you set the tempo faster.
Lesson #2: This lesson is to separate the movement of your ring finger and little finger. The trick is that you practice this lesson along with "Take Five"
Lesson #3: This lesson let you memorize the spacing of each key if you try using keyboard. It can be nice alternative to Hanon tutorials. And you can use "Unsquare dance" of Dave Brubeck for the BGM.
Lesson #4: You will let your fingers move smoothly so that each finger of non-dominant hand can hit precisely where required. You practice this routine with usual 4 beat tune as the BGM.
Lesson #5: This lesson strengthen your finger muscle. Don't overdo this practice. It may hurt your finger muscle. 16 bars every 12 hours would be enough. And you'll know it takes time to get enough reflex to your non-dominant fingers.
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