Eat and Shut Up - A Blues shuffle in F

Hey again

This is yet another blues tune I made for school, this time in a more true style. (see: http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/savanna-1980ies-electronic-funk-blues-17920.html

It's a simple 12-bar blues, 1 chours with the rhythm section, 2 choruses with a Horn-theme followed by 1 chorus Improv solos (I improvised the solos by writing in notes and not correcting if they sounded stupid, just to make the solos sound natural :P). The order is Trumpet, Alto saxophone and Trombone.

I don't have a score, but I don't think it's that necessary. Comment on the flow, the rhythms, the harmonies (I know it's hard without a score but try), the solos ;) and any other thing you might notice.

Edit:

New version with a bass solo added

Eat and shut up.mid

The only negative I can see is that it's a really basic chord progression for a blues, which makes some of the harmonic material kind of weak.

Other than that, it's pretty good. :)

Issa fun little tune.

Suggestion, perhaps on the second time around, change the little horn-fill in measure 4 of the form. Or do SOMETHING differently, just to alleviate the copy-pasteyness of the overall structure. ;)

The last measure of the form however, that send off is brilliant! Very cool lick...

[trombone solos are supposed to be low and slow, silly]

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We didn't choose the chord progression, it was specified in the assignment.

Suggestion, perhaps on the second time around, change the little horn-fill in measure 4 of the form. Or do SOMETHING differently, just to alleviate the copy-pasteyness of the overall structure. ;)

Yeah, I'm working on it. :P

The last measure of the form however, that send off is brilliant! Very cool lick...

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[trombone solos are supposed to be low and slow, silly]

Sorry :P

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By the way, what do you think about the other solos?

By the way, what do you think about the other solos?

They're all fine....pretty straight up, BALOOZE blowing, but they get the point across.

A new version has been uploaded - bass solo added.

Swingin'! I love the melody. I thought it was C-jam blues for a sec. Ellington in bebop.

It may be blues but it has a lot of personality and joy.. great stuff!

Thanks for the compliments guys ^^

Very good work Franz. The style I like but don't listen too often as it is heard so often.

My only suggestion - your solos could be more rhythmically free - not within the measure - you have great rhythmic variety there - I am talking about crossing the bar lines more irregularly - say for a 4/4 have phrase lengths of 2 1/4 + 1 1/4 + 2 1/2 forming a large phrase then cut or extend the phrases to fit the time given for each solo.

Overall very good work!