Re: VINNIE - Vintage videos...OK or not vintage.
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:26 am
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robhaerr wrote:Please remind me who the guitar player/singer is on this Manic Depression video...thank you!
Pocketplayer wrote:Stupid question...Why does he need to read on this song?
I would assume it is all feel at this point...he's heard the
song a million times already...nothing complicated about
the structure.
nomsgmusic wrote:Pocketplayer wrote:Stupid question...Why does he need to read on this song?
I would assume it is all feel at this point...he's heard the
song a million times already...nothing complicated about
the structure.
The answer... Proper people skills, and professionalism. Think about it, a person takes the time to create (possibly pay a copyist to create, or punch it out on a computer) a chart, and then (if he's a good bandleader) he goes to the time of checking it and making sure it's correct.
Then you come in, and he presents you with that chart. You blow it off and say "Yeah, I know this tune, I don't need a chart!" (Can you say, getting off on the wrong foot? ) What if there ARE additions to the chart (that aren't in the original? You miss them and look bad ("Uhhh sorry, maybe I do need a chart.") Just unprofessional. If a chart is provided, you take it, read it (correctly,) or at the least "look like" you're using it.
This wasn't a first take, so Vinnie had already read the chart down, and professional musicians are expected to internalize a chart after one reading, especially if it is something they are familiar with. That's probably why he doesn't seem to look at it much (in my opinion.) But note, he still keeps it there. He's got nothing to prove, if you don't need the chart, then you don't look at it, but you don't just take it down as to say, "Hey look, now I'll play this without a chart!"
I doubt this was a direct "transcription" of the Hendrix version (we would have to put them next to one another and start counting bars.) But odds are, SOMETHING was changed (presumably he was playing to Kimo's previously recorded track, and adding the drums last, not that it would make much of a difference to this subject.) But even if there were no anomalies in the chart, when a chart is presented to you, you put the chart next to you, let your ears (and eyes) be your guide, and say thanks for the chart (whether you use it or not.) No harm, no foul, very happy bandleader-employer, check clears, phone rings in the future!
Of course it's a completely different situation if the bandleader doesn't have a chart and gives you the ol' "You'll hear it." I played (and toured) with a big band for 5ish years, and NEVER saw one chart.
Proper people skills and professionalism, one of the MANY reasons there are 30 pages of clips of Vinnie here for us to watch!
MSG