Jam Session!

davidquinlan · 07-03-2006, 02:45 AM

Well, after a long while resisting the urge, I finally took the stand at a jam session in my local last night (The Waggon, Southgate, London). Now is the Time was the tune!
I was less scared playing in the Royal Albert Hall, however, musical performance is about convincing the audience that you are in control, and you know what you are doing.... so I think I managed to do that (while being out of control, and not knowing what I was doing!! ha!

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My mates kindly said that I sounded good!!

Despite being personally disappointed with my efforts, I've not been discouraged so bring on the next session I say!!

Any suggestions for a tune to work on would be greatly appreciated!

PH · 07-03-2006, 07:15 AM

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londonhusker · 07-03-2006, 09:07 AM

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trpt2345 · 07-03-2006, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by PH

My suggestion would be "Autumn Leaves". One word of warning...

You'll need to do some homework. Most people play this tune in G minor (the Miles Davis key). However, some people learned it out of the old Real Book or elsewhere and play it in different keys. You'll either need to sus it out in several keys or find out the most common key for the tune is in your area. This is usually a regional thing.

Autumn Leaves is one of the easiest tunes to transpose, for it's basically just a ii-V-I progression in a major key and then its relative minor. Once you get the hang of it, it falls into place pretty easily.

Michael McLaughlin

"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun."
Woody Allen

davidquinlan · 07-03-2006, 06:28 PM

Cheers guys!

BADBOY-DON · 07-03-2006, 07:58 PM

Congrats..Keep on...tootin-and jammin'
Besides...NEVER LEAVING HOME WITHOUT AN INSTRUMENT ON BOARD, I never try to forget the lessons learned from my old trumpet mentor...the late Roy Cummings, UofW jazz studies and trumpet professor.
He always was such an advocate of doing things right so with that in mind the following links are always helpful about jam session etiquette.

www.phillyjazz.org/jams.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/
http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/Improv.html

Check out his links: Interesting stuff for any musician.

PH · 07-03-2006, 09:48 PM

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davidquinlan Pianissimo User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Southgate, London, UK Posts: 173	Jam Session! Well, after a long while resisting the urge, I finally took the stand at a jam session in my local last night (The Waggon, Southgate, London). Now is the Time was the tune! I was less scared playing in the Royal Albert Hall, however, musical performance is about convincing the audience that you are in control, and you know what you are doing.... so I think I managed to do that (while being out of control, and not knowing what I was doing!! ha! ) My mates kindly said that I sounded good!! Despite being personally disappointed with my efforts, I've not been discouraged so bring on the next session I say!! Any suggestions for a tune to work on would be greatly appreciated! __________________ David Quinlan ============

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davidquinlan Pianissimo User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Southgate, London, UK Posts: 173	Cheers guys! __________________ David Quinlan ============

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BADBOY-DON Pianissimo User Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 226	Congrats..Keep on...tootin-and jammin' Besides...NEVER LEAVING HOME WITHOUT AN INSTRUMENT ON BOARD, I never try to forget the lessons learned from my old trumpet mentor...the late Roy Cummings, UofW jazz studies and trumpet professor. He always was such an advocate of doing things right so with that in mind the following links are always helpful about jam session etiquette. www.phillyjazz.org/jams.html http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/ http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/Improv.html Check out his links: Interesting stuff for any musician.

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