In a city full of noise, he became the only thing worth listening to.
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had to show out for the last night of the Basik jam at Mommy’s before it moves to its new home @katosakeworks next week
Thank you @mattlavon for keeping this session rocking all these years 🙏
Went with @colleeeeb to the museum Sunday before the blizzard. The dinosaurs are cool but I really like looking at the rocks. Malachite is my favorite.
I find the minerals and gems to be a great metaphor for the relationship of life and art.
Through our experiences, different situations overlap. Stressors, respites, relationships, jobs, creative collaborations... all of these things flow into the rock that is life. When these processes are over, raw material is left behind.
This is what gives us character, but it is also the material granted to us from nature. If one chooses to take up the initiative, this raw material of life is what can be formed, cut, chiseled, sanded to reveal yet unknown works of art.
Unique to our individual experiences, just as no malachite formations are quite identical, we can uncover unexpected beauties within and expose the various uniquenesses that lie within us.
Chromatic approaches to hit -Δ7 Chord Tones on big beats...
One of my 2026 resolutions is to share more stuff I'm doing, thinking, practicing, etc. so this is happening.
Taking wisdom from Barry Harris's Chromatic Scale, I'm inserting chromaticism into the Harmonic minor Scale to approach the Chord Tones of my Eb-Δ7 (Concert F# -Δ7).
Where there are whole steps between degrees of the scale, I insert a half step. For ex, Eb-E-F, Bb-A-Ab-G-Gb
Where there are half steps, I jump up to the next highest scale degree then continue chromatically. For ex, F-Ab-Gb-G-Ab... and coming down for ex, Ab-G-Gb-Ab-F
Where the scale has its augmented second (between degrees b6 and 7), I'm using b7 as a passing tone between them. b6-b7-7 and 7-b7-b6
Inverting the shape while still hitting Chord Tones on big beats requires a 3-note enclosure to maintain flow.
On the way up, targeting 7→1, I'm playing 7-2-b2-7-1.
On the way down, targeting 1→7, I'm playing 1-b6-b7-1-7.
