two solo guitar pieces

If anyone who was interested couldn't get the solo jazz guitar
improvisations to download before, they're lo-fi streamable here (go
to the very bottom of the page--it's not my site and there's three
people's music at this page, mine is at the bottom):

http://www.ampcast.com/music/7587/artist.php

With solo improvisations like these, I like to work off little ideas
and take chances. With the uptempo piece, the first improvisation, it
was that cyclical progression that alternates bass notes and chords,
and with the ballad, the second improvisation, it was that peculiar
little expressionist melody.

To my way of thinking, this is music making in one of its more basic
and honest forms--how one shapes new ideas and motifs into narratives
with forward motion in real time on an instrument.

take care,

--Dan Stearns

--- In tuning@y..., "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_33823.html#33823

Dan, I listened carefully to all your pieces and enjoyed them very
much. Congrats! They seemed maybe a little "tamer" than some of your
earlier efforts?? :)

J. Pehrson

Hey Joe,

Well solo guitar just has to be a little tamer than something super
dense like Day Walks In I suppose, I mean there's just no way around
it! The sound is just a guitar sans effects or any sonic fireworks
too, however, I do think I was pushing myself just about as far as I
could possibly go (harmonically and technique wise) while keeping the
off the cuff ideas I was working with afloat... and remember, the
guitar's not exactly a piano, and keeping multiple planes moving
simultaneously is a bit more of an obstacle than it might seem from a
lifetime spent behind the ivories. Anyway, I think it's some of my
best pure playing--thanks for listening, I appreciate it.

take care,

--Dan Stearns

----- Original Message -----
From: "jpehrson2" <jpehrson@rcn.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 11:55 AM
Subject: [tuning] Re: two solo guitar pieces

> --- In tuning@y..., "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...> wrote:
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> /tuning/topicId_33823.html#33823
>
> Dan, I listened carefully to all your pieces and enjoyed them very
> much. Congrats! They seemed maybe a little "tamer" than some of
your
> earlier efforts?? :)
>
> J. Pehrson
>
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--- In tuning@y..., "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...> wrote:

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Hi Dan!

Surely my comment was not meant in any way as a deprecation... I was
simply wondering wazzup... Enjoyed them.

JP

> Hey Joe,
>
> Well solo guitar just has to be a little tamer than something super
> dense like Day Walks In I suppose, I mean there's just no way around
> it! The sound is just a guitar sans effects or any sonic fireworks
> too, however, I do think I was pushing myself just about as far as I
> could possibly go (harmonically and technique wise) while keeping
the
> off the cuff ideas I was working with afloat... and remember, the
> guitar's not exactly a piano, and keeping multiple planes moving
> simultaneously is a bit more of an obstacle than it might seem from
a
> lifetime spent behind the ivories. Anyway, I think it's some of my
> best pure playing--thanks for listening, I appreciate it.
>
>
> take care,
>
> --Dan Stearns