2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
T-34
Days to Go
27
November 2011
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Watched
Karen Everett’s Week 2 video, keys to
structuring a character-driven documentary, a topic-based film, and a hybrid
documentary
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
Warm-up
on the MojoCaster
Talkin’
Loud and Sayin’ Nothing – Living Colour version
It’s
Your Thing – Isley Brothers
“So
What” – Miles Davis
Pat
Metheny – Etude #1 bars 1-4 20X
Jimi
Hendrix – “Hey Joe” Happy birthday, Jimi.
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Walking
20
minutes
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
Details:
“Granby
Street” – 3X on the MojoCaster, focus on lyrics, tempo and ending
“Dies
Irae” – 20X in groups of five, allowing
me to focus on execution
“Dies
Irae” – Concentration on octave climbs, the dyads and chord beginning and
ending.
Am
– D7 chord progression, pulling in palm mute A and A octave and D bass. This progression continues to fall into
place.
A
Dorian riff - this riff seems smaller
still compared to the chord progression built around it. Still should multitrack this riff against the
chrod progression.
Total Time: 45 minutes
Notes:
Today
is Jimi Hendrix’s birthday. While people
in the know recognize Jimi’s impact on the world, for many Jimi Hendrix is
something pigeonholed in music or the Sixties, or psychedelia, or the hippie
movement, etc., Jimi had a global impact.
He had to go all the way to
England to get his due, he had a Danish girlfriend, and would have
played with Miles Davis (pre-Bitches Brew) had he lived long enough. When I listen to Jimi’s recording of Doriella
Du Fontaine, I hear the Rosetta stone predicting the fusion of rock, funk,
spoken word and looping. On that track,
Lightnin’ Rod laid down gangsta rap before there was any. Buddy Miles and Jimi locked into a groove
that did exactly what it was supposed to do, hold up the rhymes; nothing more
and nothing less. They would loop that
groove long before samplers, and throw down a break right when needed. Check out Jimi’s rendition of Johnny B. Goode,
where he would yank the lyrics back to Chuck’s original version and sing, “…lived
a colored boy named Johnny B. Goode…”
Jimi,
I miss you. Happy birthday.
