Music Geek

Here I am on my first night off in a while and what am I doing? Exploring the world of Hexatonics and Melodic Minor Scales.

I was reading Peter Hum's Blog where he mentioned the death of Charlie Banacos who taught about Hexatonics and I remembered a previous post about a web site by Peter Martin who had posted recently about the aforementioned Melodic Minor Scales.

After some thought I have scratched out some exercises that will get me started off for PRACTICE MONTH aka January.

More to come on this and other geekiness soon.

Can there be too much of a good thing?

It is the middle of the Christmas season and I am neck deep in Christmas music. There are times at gigs where it is hard remember whether I played a certain tune or one with similar melody, chords, groove and subject matter. An effort is made try to change things up a bit but, to be honest, it can get a bit tiring. The same tunes day after day.

I resolve to have more tunes in the book for next year and to search out the true gems that exist within the Christmas repetoire. Current examples of enjoyable tunes are: 'Cool Yule', 'Emmanuel God With Us', 'The Man With The Bag', 'Trois Anges Sont Venues Ce Soir', and 'Twas In The Moon Of Wintertime'. I found some of the music from 'The Nutcracker' that will be in the book next year.

Still smiling but looking forward to perhaps playing in a minor key.

Merry Christmas.