Today I spent time copying over the chart to The Red One. The Metheny Song Book has a written bass part for this song, and I think it is pretty crucial to the feel of the tune. The format of the chart in the book has two guitar parts and a bass part. This makes for lots of pages, for what is really a fairly simple tune. I think it is good to go back and write the part out, however I have noticed that my writing has suffered over the years. I am spoiled from using software to write out the charts. I think it is good to write out the charts particularly because it makes me think about how the rhythms should be played. I have never been very good at reading rhythms. When I copy the charts out, I try to follow the good practice of spacing the rhythms appropriately. For example, a quarter note should take the same amount of space as 2 eight notes.
Roughly something like this:
|♩ ♩ ♩ ♩ |
|♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ |
In other words, a bar of eight notes takes up the same physical space as a bar of quarter notes.
I have already copied over Soul Cowboy and transcribed the melody to bass clef. That makes it much easier to play the head. I do read treble clef... It is just a bit of a mind-game to keep the clefs straight in my head.
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