College Work and Gigs

Been a busy few weeks with gigs with The Birthday Suit and Dirty Rose, due to this I have unfortunately missed out on a couple of lessons with Richard in college but we will catch up on these. I have been working on new techniques for dynamics that he gave me and also on picking my solo assessment tunes. I think one of these will be "High Maintenance" by the Big Phat Band, also Blackbird Special by Stanton Moore, both will envolve using brass sections and are both very technically challenging.

I also missed the recording of "funk" week in performance class. I had originally been involved with the original rehearsal of " Stealing Watermelons" by the Chambers Brothers. I got one of the DFM drummers to stand in for me when I was in Dundee gigging. The process of rehearsal for this band was really good, I actually really enjoyed playing the track as it had a really nice feel to it when everyone was playing it and locking in with the groove.

I have been working on some modal tunes for improv class working from the worksheets that include tracks like " So What", "Impressions" and others. 

Today in performance class is Jazz week, so I will find out what track we are playing and start working on it today!