Nothing to do with the new hip.
Last night, I received a piano track from my friend and music partner, Mark. Mark is a musician - he makes a piano come alive. When he sends me music tracks, I know I am going to be impressed with his musicianship. He makes me want to be a better player.
I am an old rock 'n roller at heart. I love to make music, but I subscribe to the saying, "Close enough for rock 'n roll." ;-)
This is not the first time he has sent files that make me think, "Are you just messin' with me? You know I can't play like that, right? Where's the back-beat?"
Do you know the difference between a jazz musician and a rock n' roller? A jazz musician plays 1,000 chords for 3 people... a rock 'n roller plays 3 chords for 1,000 people. (rimshot) Mark can go back and forth between the genres; I stay in my comfortable little wheelhouse.
All that said, he sent me a file for a medley with What The World Needs Now and Get Together. Yeah, one is a Burt Bacharach/Dione Warwick song, the other is a rock song by the Youngbloods. Who puts those together? And does it in a key that makes me stretch way up or way down?
I spent about 3 hours listening... trying to get the phrasing... rehearsing (now, Joan can't get that song out of her head). Then, I set up my Spire Studio at the dinette in our motorhome and went for it...
I recorded two tracks: one high vocal, one low vocal. One take each. Then sent that back to Mark to let him decide if either one sounds OK to him. A snippet of each track...
Nice piano playing. That isn't rock 'n roll. ;-)
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