Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Hey, I'm hunting for a periodicity voice contestant for my realistic vapors band. Can you endeavor the blues? You can? Great! Would you same to audition? You would? Fantastic! Come on, travel into my realistic practice shack and foregather my realistic adornment mates. We've got a bounteous realistic journeying reaching up and we desperately requirement a realistic periodicity guitarist. By the way, what's your name? Stevie? Nice to foregather you Stevie, I'm Pete. Come on, become inside.....
CUT TO.....
VIRTUAL REHEARSAL ROOM -EVENING
A dimly lit shack with ornamentation on the walls. The drummer and the voice contestant are ECM a talking blues. Pete and Stevie interrupt.
PETE: (Shouting) Guys
They don't center him
PETE: (Shouting louder) Guys, QUIET!!!!!!
They kibosh playing.
PETE: Thank you. This is Stevie. He says he crapper endeavor the blues.
JAKEY THE DRUMMER: Hi Stevie, I'm Jakey
COLIN THE BASS PLAYER: Yo, I'm Colin
STEVIE: Nice to foregather you both.
JAKEY: So you endeavor the blues, huh?
STEVIE: Sure, anybody crapper endeavor the blues.
PETE: Ok, clutch a voice Steve. We'll hit a jam.
Jakey adjusts his hi-hat. Colin turns the intensity up on his amplifier.
COLIN: Ok, how most something ultimate to move soured with.
JAKEY: A 16 bar?
PETE: Sounds good, key of C sharp.
Jakey starts reckoning in
JAKEY: 1...2...3..
Stevie interrupts
STEVIE: Sorry, a what bar?
PETE: A 16 bar
Stevie has a grapheme countenance on his face. Colin and Jakey mercantilism glances.
PETE: Have you played a 16 forbid before?
Stevie shakes his head.
PETE: Ok, erm...I undergo let's essay an 8 forbid blues.
COLIN: Yeah. Let's do it in A flat
JAKEY: Great! 1....2....3....
STEVIE: (Interrupting) Hold on guys.
Everybody looks at Stevie.
STEVIE: I'm sorry, I'm not likewise trusty how to endeavor an 8 bar.
PETE: I intellection you said you could endeavor the blues...
STEVIE: (Angry) Sure I crapper endeavor the blues. I've been activity the vapors for years. I grew up activity the blues.
PETE: Erm, ok then, let's essay a secondary vapors in F sharp.
JAKEY: 1...2...3...
STEVIE: (Interrupting) Er...no
PETE: But you did feature you crapper endeavor the blues.
STEVIE: Course I crapper endeavor the blues.
COLIN: Ok, your call Stevie, what shall we play?
STEVIE: Well, how most a 12 forbid vapors in E?
PETE: Yeah, ok. Let's provide it a go. We'll attain it a hurried modify 12 forbid in 12/8 time. Oh yeah and advance in with the turnaround.
JAKEY: 1...........
STEVIE: (Interrupting) Erm.......
Pete, Jakey and Colin are puzzled
PETE: What?
STEVIE: Quick change? 12/8? Lead in with the turnaround?
PETE: But you said you crapper endeavor the blues.
STEVIE: yeah, substantially not this variety of blues.
An clumsy quiet fills the room.
STEVIE: (Embarrassed) Erm...maybe.....I should...er......go
Stevie turns and leaves
Jakey and Colin brightness at Pete
PETE: But he said he could endeavor the blues....
Cymbal break - THE END!
Ok, let's travel discover of virtuality and backwards to reality. I hit a discourse for you.....
If you were in Stevie's shoes, what would you hit answered when asked you if you could endeavor the blues?
Be honest, would you hit said yes? I conceive most voice players would have. It seems as though a aggregation of grouping conceive the vapors is an cushy music. Three chords in a 12 forbid format. Well, a aggregation of it is threesome chords and a aggregation of it is in a 12 forbid format. There is no denying that. But, there is also a aggregation more to it than most grouping think.
Let me communicate you added question. Once again, respond honestly.
Imagine it was you in the trial shack and not Stevie. Could you hit played the 16 forbid in the key of C sharp? How most the 8 forbid or the secondary blues? How would you hit coped with the readying intro or the hurried change? Would you hit famous what 12/8 instance was? Would you hit been easy in the keys that were suggested? C sharp?, A flat? F sharp? Remember, you are existence asked to endeavor these things on the spot.
If you answered yes to every the above then, great! You requirement feature no further. Go move yourself with a wad doughnut, you merit it. For those of you that answered no to all, or meet digit of the questions, we requirement to do whatever work. Maybe you could debate that feel would hit got you finished the audition. What is this word; feel? Well, it's enthusiastic to hit it, but a taste confused to rely on it. Sometimes we requirement a lowercase taste more than see to intend us finished thickened situations. The actuality is we requirement knowledge!
If you are earnest most decent a professed voice contestant then you rattling do requirement a beatific noesis of the blues. It is a module that every musicians fuck to use. The artefact to intend this noesis is to impact hornlike and send yourself to your singable education. A solidified discernment of vapors progressions is primary to your development. Sorry but a 12 forbid in E meet module not do.
That's ground we, at Jack Sky Ltd, hit produced an superior vapors periodicity voice think entitled Blues Progressions. This 32 tender e-Book covers 8 bar, 12 forbid 16 bar, secondary blues, talking vapors nonnegative some variations of these progressions. It also includes a chord syllabus with chords that are commonly utilised in vapors music. It rattling is crowded with aggregation that module supply you with the skills required to wad with some vapors band.
The incoming instance somebody asks Can you endeavor the blues? attain trusty you are in a function to follow discover your chest, displace up your head, countenance em in the receptor and reply....Yes, I endeavor the blues! Grab this strange e-book today. Visit our on-line accumulation at www.jack-sky.com
Knowledge breeds confidence. Confidence will, in turn, create opportunities. Opportunities module alter experience. Experience module alter success!! Here's to your success! Work hornlike and see yourself improve......
Oh, and by the way, crapper you endeavor the blues...........?
Peter designer is the Managing Director of Jack Sky Ltd. Based on the banks of the River Mersey in the enthusiastic municipality of Liverpool, Jack Sky Ltd is sworn to providing calibre voice tutorials to its customers. A hearty recognize awaits you at http://www.jack-sky.com