Hi, Bill! Thank you for the reply. My favourite album of Jose Feliciano is "And the Feeling's Good" (See the figure below). I had this one both LP and CD, now I have only CD. I like his voice. I had Chicago's LP "The Great Chicago". This one is Japan only. hehe
A1 Introduction
A2 Does Anybody Really Know What Time Ii Is?
A3 Questions 67 And 68
A4 I'm A Man
A5 Prologue, August 29, 1968
A6 Someday (August 29, 1968)
B1 Poem For The People
B2 Make Me Smile
B3 25 Or 6 To 4
B4 Flight 602
B5 Free
B6 Lowdown
This album is released for their Japan tour 1971. They've released only double ablums but this one was single album and best selection. I thought this one was very reasonable. I like 25 Or 6 To 4 too. I remember that I tried to play by ear Terry Kath's lead guitar on this album with my acoustic guitar. LP was not good for repeat dictation and my dad was angry with me. My Idol is the Allmann Brothers Band. When I was senior in high school, we had a Rock festival in a college near by. There was a tribute band of the Allmann Brothers Band in Kobe Japan. It is Idle Wild South. I knew nothing about the band before I went there. The opening was "Don't want You No more". The sound was exactly the same as Duane Allman's Les Paul and Marshall amp to me. I thought Duane descented to the stage. The funny thing about the concert was that there are many muscular college students were employed for the guard of the stage. That was mid 70s. Not far from Woodstock. Audience were all crazy. The muscular students were employed from Karate, Judo, American Football team and so on. We were long hair, they were short cut. But they were laughing too. Just their appearance was not suitable for the concert. Yes we had a really good era for music.
Hi, peanuts56! You are lucky you met Ohta-san in person. You might see his famous big thumb nail on his right hand. I quote a chapter "Listen to the music" in his book below.
Good musicians are good listeners. This doesn't mean that we listen to music on radio doing something else. The serious music students listen to music with some criteria.
- Which key, major or minor
- Beat
- Sound variety
- Sound volume
- Tempo
- Which intruments
- Which chords
Listen to any kind of music (Hawaiian, Folk, Country& Western, Rock, Pop, Standard, Jazz, Renaissance, Baroque, Roman, Contemporary). You can distinguish the kind of chord, after listening various kind of music with close attention. After this step, you can play music by ear without music sheets.
I did not believe this advice because I thought practice is most important. Ms Seiko Sumi is a pianist and educator. She says that listing is the basic of music in her book. Two masters say same thing. I thought it worth to try.
Now a days, we listen to music while driving, reading, walking.... We do not much attention to music. Our ear is get used to it, we can do anything with listening. Our ear is half closed and eye are working when listening music. When I was kids I listen to music in front of Stereo Hi Fi system. LP records require concentration. I can not do all of the criteria Ota-san gives during listening, I just close my eyes. Then image of the musicians, instruments and stage come up. This changes my music life. I enjoy listening music every day. This brings me better chord recognition as Ota-san said. Now I really appreciate chord progression of Stairway To Heaven (Am AmM9onG# Am7onG Don F# F6), intro of Yesterday (C B7sus4 E7 Am) and so on. We can play any songs we hear, chords are same. We can play any chords we hear. Ohta-san is great ukulele player and educator.