[Harp-L] Jamey Aebersold - how I use it

[Wim Dijkgraaf <w.dijkgraaf@xxxxxx>]

Because the Jamey Aebersold play-a-long series were a topic on Harp-L  
last week, I thought it might be interesting to share with you the way  
I use this material. (I use it nearly daily, for about 15 years now)

What I like about the play-a-longs is the right "jazz" feeling, which  
is something that I don't like about Band-In-A-Box for instance. You  
really get the right jazz voicings and good sounding bass lines in  
your head when you use Jamey Aebersold. The drawback is the lack of  
flexibility in tempo, keys, etc. That's why Band-In-A-Box is a great  
aid, because you can change the tempo, key, style etc. and you can use  
it for your own songs/chord progressions.

But, to overcome some of these, I use the program "Transcribe!" as the  
player for play-a-long files. Using Transcribe, you can easily change  
the tempo, the key (up and down a minor 3rd is still usable), and loop  
certain parts of the tune/excersise.  With Transcribe, you can create  
section markers, bar markers en beat markers (free text too) so , it's  
very easy to create a reusable file with all the markers. You just  
save the markers for future reuse. Next time you find your way through  
the song very easily.

Transcribe! can be found at http://www.seventhstring.com/

(Also an ideal tool to do transcriptions of course.)

Abraços,

Wim Dijkgraaf
jazz harmonica & composition

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