A tune, and making sense of jazz

Wrote a tune, and tried my best to analyze a jazz standard.

Sarah Armstrong’s Tune—bowing (with video)

This is how I bow Sarah Armstrong’s Tune. Video is included, demonstrating fast and slow.

Old-time bowing

After a discussion with user Fiddlepogo on Fiddle Hangout, I came up with some more things to talk about here. Here’s a comprehensive recap of my earlier bowing blog posts along with more content.

A couple medleys

Sat down at the piano to play, and I came out with two medley-type improvisations.

Some real jazz

Played an actual jazz tune on fiddle, and found a video.

Functional analysis, huh

I was reading this and it seemed to make way too much sense—I feel like it describes the framework for what I do when I improvise chords on the piano. Here’s some stuff that I thought about. (I apologize in advance for mixing roman numeral notation with the functional analysis notation.)

Two fiddle-piano duets

A conversation on Facebook gave me the idea to do fiddle-piano duets; I recorded two today.

Another cover

Just did a cover of the Someday’s Dreamers theme again.

Floating chords

Experimenting with sus chords and such. Wrote two tunes and did a short cover of My Favorite Things.

Adjustments to previous tunes, and a cover

Added a tag to Measured Steps, and did a cover of a tune from an anime soundtrack.