Getting Even Sharper

Notes from today’s class:

Leave Space! You don’t have to fill every improv space. Leave room for the band.

Practice your scales and your blues scales.

Practice being in the moment and going back and forth.

Learn the vocabulary of other scatters- what syllables and tone quality does Sarah Vaughan have? Try to emulate that over another song, use her syllables and vocal styling.

Ella syllables & sound: more bright, less focus on syllables, sometimes just sounds. Doya d/n do , doya do dee, be do be doo, dee ha

More mumbly, less syllabic, yelling, speak sung. Focus on emotive and less on specific

Darmon Maeder - is also a saxaphonist, you can hear it in is singing/syllable choice

Jo Lawry- this song is a contrafact to Giant Steps. She’s not Sting’s back up singing.

Create guide tones using the 3 & 7, then sing around those notes. Sing the bass lines.

Essential things to do:

-walk the bass line

-arpeggiate the chords

then you will have the gist of the song

Bossa Scatting: keep it simple. Straight eight notes, or smooth, quarter note triplets. or focus on being more melodic and less showy