sirgregsalot

You know, I don't know what you all are saying; I can hear the melody fine. I like how you achieve a good ECM feel but not enough that you'd scare off people who don't go for that kind of thing, know what I'm saying?

Hey, dude. Well, let's say that it lacks a clear tonal center, even considering the heavy use of modulations. Part of that is that I can tell how the clarinet is taking second place to the flute and acting as harmonizer to a somewhat abstract melody. To compound this, your implied harmonies don't always match the keys you're in. For example, measure 17 - should this really be f major or f minor, and does it matter? (although I really do like the chromatic mediant modulation - good on you there) Is what I'm saying making sense?

Hey, man. My first post here, too. Well I'm sure this sounded really impressive live. If I may, though, I'd like to ask you about some of the voice leading you've got going on in there. For example, I can dig what you're doing in the first full bar of Autumn Leaves, but what instead if you made it A, E, Eb, D? (written) It's just sort of a more resolved sound in root position than in 2nd inversion, you know? As for Imagination, I liked a lot what you were doing in there! However, I think there were some sour notes when you had the bari start walking. Other than that, it felt very comfortable. Also, as a matter of taste, what you say to having some altered chord in the penultimate measure? I'm thinking the bari could go Db (written) to C (written) to give you your tritone substitution over the dominant. Either way, though, great work for just one night, as you said! Cheers, -Greg