Melissa Aldana's Brilliant Solo on Billie's Bounce
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@nickmainella 9 ай бұрын
Wow I can't believe I kept saying Au Privave. I got my F blues tunes mixed up! Sorry about that, y'all 😂 My brain! 🤦♂
@ouruhuru 9 ай бұрын
Reminds me of that time I called "You don't know what love is" at a jam session and started playing "there is no greater love" and wondered why everyone was playing at 60 bpms lol
@nickmainella 9 ай бұрын
Thanks for making me feel better 😂🤣
@robbyr9286 4 ай бұрын
@@ouruhuru I did something like that at a jam session w/ John Stowell & others at a restaurant. Confused 'You'd be so nice to come home to' whichwas the tune called with 'you don't know what love is' if i recall & said we were playing it in Fmi.
@koegon 9 ай бұрын
It’s Billies Bounce, but I’m so hyped!!! Big fan of her playing. Thanks for doing this video Nick!
@nickmainella 9 ай бұрын
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@koegon 9 ай бұрын
@@nickmainella happens to the best of us, you’re proof of that;)
@Justintime670 9 ай бұрын
Also, when you call out the tune “Au Privave” please pronounce it like Oh Pree-vahv.
@robertbob980 9 ай бұрын
what mouthpiece do you use .. just always windered .. such a beautiful tone . You do best .. Spring can really hang you up the most .. of All .. Wow 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
@zan77460 9 ай бұрын
Hi Nick, I really like your tone on her line. Hope someday I have that tone myself.😅
@lyntedrockley7295 9 ай бұрын
Gorgeous, and great analysis. It might be helpful to notice that she is using a lot of repetition., phrase 2 starts and ends with the same notes (octave up), measure 5 is very similar to measure 4 a tone down, (is this what she was trying for?) , measure 6 is the same 4 note cell repeated up an octave, measure 7 closely resembles 4 and 5. So there are two main shapes, an ascending pattern and a descending pattern (derived from the Thad Jones quote) that she juxtaposes and varies a little. Its very effective. From a playing POV I suggest this is what she is thinking. She would have these shapes under her fingers in all 12 keys and calls them at will. Apart from the 6 2 5 1 at the end I don't think she's thinking of changes beyond, C minorish, then F# minorish, basically IV and its tritone. Its great! Genius!
@nickmainella 9 ай бұрын
Great comment! I totally agree with you now that I'm thinking from that angle. It's so cool how two people can see totally different things in this🙌
@samuelbrown434 9 ай бұрын
Melissa Aldana is one of the most fun and inventive players to listen to! That’s it just stating the obvious.
@nickmainella 9 ай бұрын
I agree completely!
@neilripsch6624 9 ай бұрын
Thank so much for the content - it’s invaluable. My evil inner voice laughs and says - another piece that I have no chance in hell to play. I hate that voice. You’re the best, Nick.
@mzarmusic 9 ай бұрын
Do you think you could almost analyze measures 2 & 3 as implying Db7 (the tritone sub of G7) and measures 5 & 6 as F#7 (tritone sub of C7)?
@mzarmusic 9 ай бұрын
or Db (there is no flat 7th in the line....) ?
@robertbob980 9 ай бұрын
hello Melissa .. I love Your music .. listen to all your l.p.s .. love latest 12 stars ..
@T.H.W.O.T.H 9 ай бұрын
Billie's Bounce Nick.
@nickmainella 9 ай бұрын
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@ouruhuru 9 ай бұрын
Ok so I'm going try play this on trumpet and I know it's going to get ugly!
@pitbrett8562 9 күн бұрын
Good Idea, but the half of all is missing. You have to hear to what the Lines are related- the harmony/chords! And the piano may played f.e. this Bbm-Sound… Music is more hearing/feeling, less calculating. Calculating-Stuff is nice for Authistics, Asberger‘s or AI‘s :-)
@claypufahl6074 9 ай бұрын
Looks like maybe a Drake mpc?
@nickmainella 9 ай бұрын
Yup. Son of slant 👍
@bryanhoke5288 Ай бұрын
I dunno. Nice analysis, but I much prefer Art Pepper and George Cables version of Billie's Bounce. If you have to listen that intently to enjoy it, then it's not for me. Seems the complexity is for a narrow audience.
@bryanhoke5288 Ай бұрын
Or Dexter Gordon, album, Bouncing' with Dex. I guess that I'm just old school.
@nickmainella Ай бұрын
No worries there! We are all completely different in terms of what turns us on about music. You do you! 🎶
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