Wiesty

Happy International Jazz Day!

Such a loss. Too young! I enjoyed him in everything he did.

Nice. Well if you built some bass traps and whatnot I'm sure you could have the room sounding just fine.

Did you take a listen to how much outside noise comes in? I have a small/old house, probably similar construction to a garage...and every time a dog barks in the neighbourhood I can hear it.

the AVGN movie in development is based around this I believe.

We may or may not have an album in the works....but do stay tuned

Check the SoundCloud again for a little visual treat!

Thanks man! I do a lot of things mediocrely. The rest of these guys make me look good.

Love the title haha. Very unique arrangement as well!

Thanks everyone! Everyone on the team was super excited to get this out after a lot of hard work. The OC Jazz Collective is definitely a thing now, so if you have any arrangements you'd like for us to take a look at, PM me!

Well folks here it is.... After a long...long....long time of waiting, the OC Jazz Collective has been reborn from the ashes of the OCR Big Band. This premiere track entitled "The Guru" is a post-bop re-imagination of "Song of Storms" from Ocarina of Time. We have an amazing line up of OC Remix greats on this track! Arranger: Wiesty Soprano/Alto Saxophone- XPRTNovice Tenor Saxophone- Anthony Lofton Trombone- Fratto Trumpet- Sir Jordanius Piano/Drums- Wiesty Bass- audio fidelity Solos by Anthony Lofton, XPRTNovice and Wiesty We had a ton of fun working on this track, and we hope to bring you many more! https://soundcloud.com/wiesty/the-guru-the-oc-jazz-collective

Pencil condenser's work nice. Apex makes some affordable ones if you are recording on a budget, as do different companies such as Karma or MXL. Buy two or three of those and an M-Audio fast track or equivalent and you will be good to go.

"I said Gyros you idiot"

Thank you! Compositionally (is that a word? w/e) its basically complete, a few little things here and there that have not been added yet as well as some fixes.

Its following sort of a classical era layout. Pretty typical even in contemporary chamber pieces when its multi movement. It's also typical in theme/variation pieces.

Yeah Joe is the guy I throw stuff at when I want it to sound good. We haven't done anything basically with the production. We still need to touch up some spots here and there in the recordings and mix it and we'll be good to go. Glad you like the arranging! This is the only chocobo piece I'll ever have to write.

Man, you write some killer material! Nice work.

M-Audio fast tracks are not to bad for the price if you just need something small. The new ones are vastly improved.

Hey everyone! Here is a track that has been in the works for quite a while now. This was produced as a bonus track for the FF7 Web Series me and Joe were working on in the Summer/Fall that fell apart. I wanted to do a chocobo track but was confronted with the problem that Nobuo has already remixed the track about a billion times himself, so what do you do?! I decided to do a theme and variations type piece. It was originally written for string quartet, but I decided to get XPRTNovice in on it and arrange it for Saxophone quartet. Here is a nearly complete WIP! 1.Theme 2. Rag 3. Jazz 4. Dance/Pop Hope you enjoy! Post thoughts/comments please! https://soundcloud.com/wiesty/variations-de-chocobo-wip3

It's an observation I've made over many years playing with countless musicians in both areas, no offence intended

Joe! Avashi is a killer player! I may have the opportunity to see him in Montreal this summer.

Theory is theory, correct. But in Jazz you are actively using theory while you play, whereas in classical it is mostly an analytical tool. This is why I find most of the jazz guys are up way more on theory than a lot of classical guys. Now of course theres a lot of theory used in classical that jazz doesn't even touch but thats getting into some heavy stuff.

I'm much more of a jazz theory guy, but it definitely helps to have both. I find jazz theory to be much more practical as you are constantly using it while you are playing it. Classical theory on the other hand is much more of an analytical tool.

+1 to Ectogemia. Take the following for example: "Passion Dance" by McCoy Tyner. http://www.realbooksite.com/jazz-sheet-music-images/Jazz-Sheet-Music-Page-337.jpg The entire song is based off of sus7 chords, but the melody in no way prepares itself for harmonic resolution in the way the sus chords should (in classical literature).

To an extent...but for the past 400 years a good number of composers have thought about harmony before they've thought about melody. Before baroque composers came around harmony was typically subsequent of two or more melodies put against each other. Since then, composers have thought about harmonies and common progressions (ii-V-I, I, IV, vii, I, etc. etc.) first, and added in melodies afterwards using passing tones, chord tones, etc.