Velez - Senior Thesis

Today I: I chose They Can't Take That Away from me for a contrafact basis after looking through the real book and listening to many, many songs and cross referencing from the real book.

Today I: Researched Barry Harris' 6th-Diminished Scale Researched early Jazz/Broadway tunes including Ain't Misbehavin, Black and Blue, and All the Things You Are.

Today I: restructured the last 8 bars of a written drum part for my first tune, although I'm not sure if I actually want to use a written drum part or not. used Garageband MIDI drums to create a demo recording of the updated drum part, and then... mixed that drum part back into the master demo for that first tune

Today I: Made some changes to what had been a "finalized" first draft for tune 2. Added a chord progression for the B section Edited the final A section to match the first.

Today I: Finalized second chord progression Begun second Melody over chords made preliminary accompaniment track

Today I: Worked on my term paper.

Today I: Worked on notating a melody in A minor over a figured bassline. This is traditionally a Classical exercise, but I'm trying to apply it for inspiration and also to think about voice leading 4-part harmony in an instrumental context. I did 3 unrelated lines, each of which took between 20 and 25 minutes, because the note placement has to follow a long set of rules which was established in what we call the Common Practice Period.