Sonny Rollins - Oleo
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Louey migxsji, eh oh eh.
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I like the Blues Walk reference at 1:38
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friggin dawson plays licks that mortal drummers need to concentrate hard to play at half this tempo...
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the physical saxophone almost seems to be an afterthought in this clip.
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gotta rate dawson
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@clegghap So you're saying some of the best musicians in the history of music were good at sight-reading. Wow, what a revelation! The original point by devilstoaster was the truly ignorant assertion that TABs make guitarists weaker readers, when in fact they are poor sight-readers for very different reasons (mostly due to the nature of the instrument itself). Wes Montgomery, the greatest Jazz guitarist ever, didn't read a lick of music, and somehow things worked out for him.
i love how the top comment is about guitar... there is no guitar in this video
nunchuckification 3 months ago 14
@devilstoaster I don't know what prompted this comment, but it's quite false. Guitarists are better readers because of tabs, as they are granted insights into how great guitarists executed passages, i.e. what fingerings were (likely) used to execute a passage. Sight-reading on guitar is extraordinarily difficult not because of tabs, but in spite of them -- the instrument offers so many possibilities for the execution of a musical line that the issue is not WHAT not to play but HOW to play it.
VonNashman 10 months ago 10