[linux-audio-user] [OT - Apostrophe]

[Dave Phillips]

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:

>Not that the OT needs to go on any longer, but monk is one of my all
>time favorite composers and performers. :-D If I were to start studying
>music again I think I would start with monk.
>  
>
To push this thread a little towards on-topic: In the late 1980s I 
transcribed hundreds of compositions by various composers to MIDI 
sequences. It was great training for me, I worked from the written 
music, so the work improved my reading skills tremendously, and it also 
gave me much more intimate knowledge of what was going on inside the 
music's composition. I urge all students to follow this way, it's quite 
similar to Bach's practice of transcribing works by previous composers 
in order to learn how it's done. Linux audio software such as MusE and 
Rosegarden offer all the capability needed to carry out such a task, 
anyone can do it.

And yes, I transcribed some pieces by Monk. IMO he was one of the 
titans. Favorite Monk piece of the moment: Ruby My Dear. Favorite Monk 
experience: Watching Buell Neidlinger's "buellgrass" group play an 
evening of nothing but lesser-known Monk titles at McCabe's in LA, all 
tunes played by a quartet that included fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and 
string bass. And who can forget the Kronos Quartet's rendition of Round 
Midnight ?

But the best is still Monk with Rollins, or with Coltrane, or just Monk 
by himself...

Off-topically,

dp