Now available on Melax Music: All sheet music for the duo album Hringferð. Leadsheets for C-, Bb- and Eb-Instruments as pdf book. More info HERE.
Sheets & Transcriptions
MICRO-STUDIES #001 - Practice Cycles for Secondary Dominants
New year - new input... Some time ago I had the idea to make some things I work on daily in my practice room available to others as well. I have therefore started to create "micro-studies" on special topics, which aim to shed light on different musical aspects and show inspiring ways to deal with the material on your own. It starts with "MICRO-STUDIES #001 - Practice Cycles for Secondary Dominants". Available now as a pdf download from my website: Melax Music
Check it out and send me some feedback, if you want ;-)
Solotranscription | Brad Mehldau - Flamingo
Time for another solo transcription. This time I transcribed a piano solo by the fantastic Brad Mehldau. It can be heard on one of my favorite albums, Chris Cheek - Blues Cruise. The tricky thing about this transcription was to try playing it in real unison with the piano and not changing octaves to make it more comfortable on tenor sax. Pdf Download for a Bb-flat Version is available below.
Solotranscription | Sonny Rollins - Valse Hot
There has been some spare time to get back into the transcription process. This time I’ve been working on a beautiful Sonny Rollins Solo on his tune “Valse Hot”.
NEW SOLOTRANSCRIPTION | Cedar Walton
I made a new transcription video of a beautiful Cedar Walton solo I have been working on over the last weeks. It’s such a great chorus on ‘The shadow of your smile’ by Mr. Walton! The whole album is great by the way: Eddie Harris - The In Sound!
New Solotranscription | CHRIS POTTER - WE SEE
This summer I have been working on a fantastic Chris Potter Solo. It’s on one of my all time favorite records PAUL MOTIAN & E.B.B. - MONK & POWELL. Below you can find a version of me playing along with it and there’s also a pdf version of the solo for you to download.
SOLOTRANSCRIPTION | Stan Getz - Out of Nowhere
The last couple of weeks I spent some time practicing a beautiful solo by Stan Getz on the Jazzstandard 'Out of nowhere'. It's an absolutely amazing solo! Stan is on the left, myself on the right channel:
Line Up by Lennie Tristano - Solo Transcription
Over the last months I have been working on a famous solo by Lennie Tristano. The tune is called "Line Up" and is based on the chord progression of the Jazz standard "All of Me". Most notably, the recording is originally overdubbed on a bass and drums track, but also allegedly recorded at half speed an octave below and then sped up for the final recording. The timbre of the piano and the abundance of micro-accents within lines at the speed of the recording are obvious traces of this process.
I found it to be a compelling task to record the solo in the original tempo on tenor sax. It forced me e.g. to use circular breathing within the lines and to find alternate fingering combinations for difficult parts. I decided to retain the result of this eternal practice process in a video. Here it is:
Bundes Big Band Archiv
From now on some of my Big Band Arrangements can be purchased through the "Bundes-Big-Band-Archiv" which has been installed by the German "Musikrat". Goal of the archive is to achieve a greater distribution of modern German Big Band music. But not only difficult compositions also easy or intermediate tunes for amateur bands or groups with an irregular line-up can be found there.