Share and Play Anywhere: Headed to a jam session or choir practice? You've got your music with you, always. Eco-Friendly: Save trees, skip the print! Plus, with digital, you can zoom, highlight, and make notes without messing up the original.Ĥ. Easy Access: Whether you're on your tablet, phone, or computer, your music is just a tap away.ģ. You can trust the notes to be on point.Ģ. Quality Assurance: You're getting the real deal, not some half-baked version. DESCRIPTION: The piano transcription Peri’s Scope of Bill Evans is for left and right hand, note-for-note. Oh, and a quick heads up on why buying licensed digital sheet music rocks:ġ. So, after you've made it yours, don't forget to swing by the admin area if you're feeling like tweaking the key to your taste. Now, if you're thinking of getting your hands on the music, here's the deal: when you make that purchase, it's gonna land in your library in the original key. This cool feature lets you mess around with the song's key, shifting it up or down by about 3 semitones from its starting point. If it's lighting up in bright white, it's your cue to give it a click. Hopefully, this eventually gets me to a place where I can start arranging and performing.Ever wondered if you can play "Peri's Scope" by Bill Evans in a different key? Here's the lowdown: Search for the little notes symbol chillin' at the bottom of the sheet music. After the composition phase, I am going to work on my improvisation, by recording tracks and playing over them, with various instruments. In these practice books, I will explore the application of scales and patterns from Liebman, Bergonzi, Ricker (and other sources) to the charts. Concurrently, I am working on practice books for trumpet and guitar, which will blend charts from various sources: Mehegan, Aebersold, the Real Book, etc. Right now, I am working through the Baker Cycles for guitar, trumpet and clarinet. Thanks for the tip on the Bill Evans transcription books. I hope to do some more work on developing my solo and arranging style, and I am sure that, at some point, Bill Evans will be a part of it. I haven’t done much transcription, but I have used John Mehegan’s books for many years in my piano practices, to create charts for guitar and solos for violin. The first was Spring Leaves, which features Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. I have also collected many Bill Evans recordings. So… drop your email into the form below and I’ll send you the eBook, Bill Evans Remembered. For that education, I am eternally grateful to Richie. I would occasionally treat myself to a break with Bill’s very simple and beautiful tune, Waltz for Helene.Ĭreating these pieces with Richie on Bill Evans has brought back all these musical memories and 40 years later it has provided me with an advanced degree in Bill Evans. I remember being determined to play through the transcriptions and eventually made my way through the forest of changes on Two Lonely People. I also bought every one of the Bill Evans songbooks. One thing I learned was that there was so much more to the standard tunes that I and my friends had been slavishly following within the Real Book. I created lead sheets of his tunes and added them to my fake book collection. I would sit for hours at the piano transcribing Bill’s voicings and sketching out the changes as best I could identify them. To this day, I can still play much of that solo. I remember taping together that long trail of 18 transcribed pages and challenging myself to play it through without pause. Oscar Peterson’s great solo on Joy Spring was only a few pages away, but I was a Bill Evans guy after all. I bought John Mehegan’s book and memorized Bill’s performance of Peri’s Scope as transcribed withinin the book. From his Vanguard recordings to Portrait in Jazz, to the Tony Bennet sessions and Affinity to Conversations with Myself and many others, I was determined to understand what this man was doing with the piano. My history with him was through listening, analyzing, and integrating his harmonic approach into my playing as a means for me to learn to play better jazz.īill Evans’ recordings monopolized my college record collection. After all, he knew Bill and had Bill’s respect. These pieces on Bill are Richie’s observations and expert analysis. Once in a while I give Richie credit for a good idea. So I thought, why not create a compilation of both these pieces in commemoration of this day. The other piece is one of the chapters in our eBook The Lineage of Modern Jazz Piano. One was the eBook talking about the Nardis intros Bill played at the very end of his life. We discussed it for a minute and he reminded me that we’ve created two pieces featuring Bill. “Well, you should write something about it in your blog”, he told me. “Do you know that 40 years ago today, Bill Evans passed?” “No”, I said with a small amount of shame. Richie Beirach called me today and after our friendly banter, told me that in Germany it was September 15th.
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