Brody Segan is a composer, arranger, and trombonist based in Miami, Florida. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, he grew up listening to a wide array of musical genres, from rock to film soundtracks: two of several genres in which he has worked. His music is known for incorporating themes of Americana, nature, life experiences, and humor. Brody recently earned a Bachelor of Music in Trombone Performance with a minor in Jazz Performance at Penn State University, where he represented his graduating class as the 2023 School of Music Program Marshal. He is currently a part of the Studio Music and Jazz Program at University of Miami’s Frost School of Music.
That’s literally the best way to transcribe it. The “Dotted-Eighth Sixteenth” pattern is prevalent through the solo, so adding a staccato to that pattern is not an issue. It would be more confusing to suddenly have an “Eighth Sixteenth-Rest Sixteenth” pattern thrown in suddenly just to include a staccato.
@@gameforest9360Having a dotted note with a staccato is not correct from a music notation point of view. You may think that it's not that deep, but in "music preparation", small mistakes like this could make the difference between getting the gig or not. I'm sure you know that a staccato mark means "play half the duration". Well, in this case, you basically tell the soloist to play a 1.5 sixteen note which is very confusing. Even if that is what you hear in the piece, you do not have to go that much into details. The goal of an effective transcription is not to showcase your miticulous ear training skills, but rather provide other musicians a correct and professional score ready for performance. I see two alternatives for this scenario. 1. Just remove the staccato. Again, just because that is what you hear in the piece, doesn't mean you have to have it in the transcription. Let the soloist interpret the phrasing to their liking and if they wanna take a breath, they will. 2. If you still wanna indicate a brief rest, I agree that adding a 16th note rest would cause more confusion. Consider adding a breath mark (,) right before the target note. This will show the soloist that they are supposed to have a small breath in between the notes. Hope this helps.
Dick Nash-what beautiful sound he had! Thanks for transcribing this! He had some great solos on those Mancini recordings. His rendition of Misty is my favorite!
Very nice but that’s not a trombone solo. He’s playing baritone here. You can hear the valves. And I don’t think it’s valve trombone because the sound is too open and nice. 😊
99% sure it's a slide trombone. Those clicks between notes are from alternate positions, not valves. The entire first & second phrases would have the positions: 3 3 4 4 4 4 3 2 1 2 2 / 4 4 5 3 3 2 2 3 (the 2 to 3, G to F#, the last 2 notes of 2nd phrase, is the first move lacking a click between notes). Also, the vibrato is a give-away.
This would be a lot more useful if, instead of TALKING about 12 bar blues, you PLAYED some 12 bar blues to go with your song so we could hear how the lyrics fit into the chord progression.
Nice video Brody. I am a long time fan. We watched your Milton Hershey video in class when I was in high school and I think you should re upload it for future classes to use! Keep it up Brody!
