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Title: ''A Bit Of Soul'' - Piano Instrumental
Post by: silvaone on December 02, 2005, 10:57:27 AM

A Ray Charles Instrumental..... :) with some improvisation on my part.........

enjoy

- Silva

Title: Re: ''A Bit Of Soul'' - Piano Instrumental
Post by: ted on December 14, 2005, 09:43:45 AM

I found the tempo changes, rhythmic variety and generally thicker texture than your previous playing added interest to this one. For some reason your playing frequently reminds me more of Jimmy Yancey's than Ray Charles's. I have several recordings of Yancey -  "Death Letter Blues", "Crying In My Sleep" and others, and he uses very similar left hand figures to yours. I thought they were peculiar to him but I don't know a lot about blues so possibly everybody uses them; I wouldn't know any better.

I think it is definitely worth your while developing your own solo style from this basis as you obviously have something vital to say.