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For my last session of the day, I made the time to catch Matthew Garrison. I had heard the name once or twice (he's a Fodera sponsored artist), but I didn't know much about him.
What a pleasant surprise.
Matthew plays with a must-see-to-believe right hand technique that uses his thumb and three fingers in very tight sequences. It's an amazing sound. But one of his suggestions that I really appreciated was how to keep a song fresh.
Garrison took the tune Giant Steps and then started to move around the time signatures. First, he played it (using a drum machine for rhythmic assistance) in 7/8, cutting off an eighth note where he could. Then he played it in 9/8, extending notes where he could. By approaching the song like this, new aspects are opened up.
As a side note, I know quite a few musicians who couldn't play Giant Steps in the original time signature, let alone messing around with it like this. Very impressive.
Posted by Casper at October 16, 2004 03:36 PM