Useless Theory Blog

About jazz, guitar and music.

Transcribing Chris Potter

You could say this is a Number #5 transcription of the series “I always wanted to do but never did” but actually this transcription was created because of an Instagram challenge. Patricija Škof (go check her singing skills out on […]

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Summertime

summertime

Here is my take on Gershwin’s 1934 Summertime in 2020 on a single O acoustic guitar. As of 2020 a crowdsourced website called The Summertime Connection claims to have documented 81,856 recordings of this jazz standard. Hope you enjoy it.

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LOVE THEME – CINEMA PARADISO – ENNIO MORRICONE

Love theme - Cinema Paradiso

The passing of a master composer Ennio Morricone prompted me to do a version of my own as a tribute on my Single O acoustic guitar. He composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 […]

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Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

It’s Spring and we live in crazy times. So the choice for my next jazz standard was easy. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most – standard written by Tommy Wolf and even more famous for the lyrics written […]

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The Best Things in Life are Free – transcription

The best things in life are free

Transkipcija #4. Jesse van Ruller’s take on The Best Thing in Life are Free. Author of music is Ray Henderson. Jesse van Ruller is a Dutch jazz guitarist and composer. In 1995 he won the prestigious jazz guitar competition – […]

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NEW ALBUM! DIRTY HEARTS – BREAKING THROUGH

With the band Dirty Hearts, whose leader is the Austrian singer and composer Eveline Schmutzhard, we released our first album Breaking Thoruhg (label: Freifeld Tontraeger) and did the release concert in Vienna. The album was recorded in Amman Studios (Vienna, 2018). […]

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1-minute creations

Instagram app / social media platform is a great place to post short clips of one minute videos. It s limitation, .. which I enjoy. It’s a one way to create by setting the limitations. So I’m happy to share […]

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Transcriptions

Transkribcija

In hopes to develop my relative pitch I decided to do mini series of transcriptions.This is an old idea o mine and I do one full transcriptions of a solo I really enjoy. So here are two. Chet baker solo […]

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Technical exercises

I try to work everyday on developing my guitar skills. Playing from classical etudes to jazz oriented exercises. There are not so many jazz etudes so with that in mind I started to create my own technical jazz etudes for […]

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