Still listening to you after discovering your playing at the Louis Cole/Metropole Orkest show! Juju is my favorite Shorter album and I would love to hear you solo over Twelve more bars to go :-)
Hi Reiner, first of all, wanted to thank you for making this banger of a masterclass available for free on youtube. I'm definitely getting that PDF to work through the composition challenges. There's just one thing I didn't really understand: "Make your findings and ideas into a system" "This way you can develop a single idea into a vocabulary". What does this mean? Thanks in advance!
great vid! im a beginning composer, and these techniques are gonna help a lot! (along with learning classical and jazz theory) i see how you feel about fusion music, but have you tried.... kapustin! specifically his concert etudes, his second impromptu, and his toccatantina op. 36(i spelled that wrong). those are my personal favorites though, and most people's favorite kapustin piece varies by a ton.
I've always remembered something you said in masterclass once that was very profound I think. Which is putting things into "system" after learning them, whether it's a musical idea/line/chord voicing - That is taking a new idea through it's paces in different contexts and learning how one might use it in different situations. It was funny because I've just started doing exactly what you said in this particular masterclass, too - Analysing a tune and figuring out what exactly makes you like it so much. Whether it's the tone, the chord progression, the voicing's, form etc. I've found this SUPER productive for writing. It offers way more structure and is a really inspiring way to write music. Thank you for posting this!
Two improvisers that can really improvise. I follow both of these men, and I can say they are in their own league. Many players that doing self-claiming as great improviser in some interview or something, but Baas and Ruller never boast. From their playing we already know how great they are.
