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Topic: Just a Ballad... (video) (Read 1789 times)

nickc

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Just a Ballad... (video)

on: June 27, 2017, 01:29:58 AM

Like the title says... just a ballad. Life goes on with or without you. This work is definitely more contrapuntal in nature... Take care,

Nicholas

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ted

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Re: Just a Ballad... (video)

Reply #1 on: June 27, 2017, 09:00:36 AM

This confirms my earlier observation that you have a marked feeling for contrapuntal effect. The brief sections of fugato here, e.g. 13:33 - 14:00, spring to life, and you could probably afford to let such go on longer. Similar style in some players rapidly becomes dull, but yours does not, at a guess because your impulse is driven more by phrase and rhythm than by the mental arithmetic of note combinatorics. Of course, such sections do not have to be metrical or even synchronous in improvisation these days, but I do enjoy the sensation of life force produced by simultaneous but independent events. This delightful state, I have found, tends to shoot itself in the foot if I concentrate on the detail of producing it.

The other section which sticks in my mind contains the chord sequences at about 12:33 - 12:55. This is very haunting.

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