Swing Time

The song “Flamenco Sketches” by the Miles Davis Sextet has the cool jazz sound with the modal jazz style. The song has a light and soft sound with simple melodic improvisations. A traditional rhythm section maintains a steady rhythm throughout the song, but this rhythm section uses countermelodies to add colorations during the improvisations. The pianist is constantly playing a soft melody underneath the improvisations and sometimes mirroring the melody played by the improviser. The bassist…

Swing music originated by musicians modifying forms of “jazz", so that by the 1930’s a new form of music emerged called “swing”. Swing is characterized by very large bands, fixed, usually written arrangements, and solos by individual musicians in turn. Swing bands typically used an upright or double bass instead of a tuba and played repeated riffs to give the music a propulsive rhythmic force. Swing combined harmonic sophistication with danceable rhythms and compelling individual…

Jazz began in the late 18th century in African-American communities in New Orleans. Soon these vocal tunes made by African-Americans turned into piano songs, and soon enough evolved into the Jazz we know and love today. In modern Jazz, there are pieces that are considered “Jazz Standards”, one major contributor to these standards is the trombone player and Big Band Jazz composer, Glenn Miller. Glenn Miller lived a short yet interesting life, he differed from his competitors and left a dazzling…

The masterful, classic composition “Potato Head Blues” by legendary musician Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven band is widely regarded today as one of Armstrong’s finest recordings. This song is a quick-paced jazz melody with the trumpet along with the piano providing what I believe is to be a 4 beat per measure rhythm. “Potato Head Blues” also sounds different from that of Joplin Rags since I counted 2 beats per measure. The song also does not seem to have much variation with a constant…

I had to work my mind to remember signals and cues while simultaneously coordinating my body movements to match the rhythm and my partner. There was a marked improvement from the way I held myself originally in the waltz as compared to east coast swing. By the end I had more confidence in my abilities and more familiarity with my colleagues. Some days I think it would be nice if the class were a full semester in length, only to continue gaining knowledge in an area I know next to nothing about…

them into nightmares. For the first time in his life, Michael didn’t mind holding his mom’s hand when crossing the street. It was about a month later and Michael and Alex were arguing over who got to ride the swing. There were two, but some of the older kids had twisted the other one so badly that it was unusable and untying it would require a much longer attention span than what Alex and Michael had. Therefore, they had to decide who was going to ride the swing first. This problem would not be…

A successful shoulder stand needs to be well controlled on the way up and down. " "Resistance Training: I increased the plank time to 2 minutes as I wanted to focus on core leading up to the shoulder stand text next week which requires a lot of core strength. Parallel Bars: Attempted the forward roll for the first time. There are a lot skills involved in the forward roll, and can be quite difficult to master, because they have to be done while you your whole body is flipping…

Cristy quits chuckling and turns her revolting frown towards me. What did you simply say? I rehash myself, louder this time. Quiet down Cristy. Now I'm gazing directly into her close bruised eyes. She resembles she's going to have a stroke. I figure nobody else has ever talked like that to her some time recently, in light of the fact that now she's basically hyperventilating. She takes in moderate, sensational breaths, tallying down from five on her fingers,…

collectively the Prana Mudra. The entirety of this is that great meditation can transform sexual electricity into the affection vibration, and soften collectively into oneness. Have you ever been “long gone”? Tantric techniques convey you into an area wherein time stops. Where you are not crucial anymore. There’s nothing to fix or to do. It’s a completely happy space and final peace for the two partners. Couples courses “try” to convey you there too. We can’t guaranty it, but if you accept as…

situations shown on screen themselves, kids often confuse the fictional elements with reality and find it difficult to avoid media’s harmful impression. For instance, when my brother first watched the animation “Tarzan,” he thought that all people could swing across vines with ease. With no basic knowledge of the consequences that could follow a spring across the window span, my brother decided to try it out. He hopped on to the dining table, grabbed a chunk of the curtain fabric, and took off,…