Two of life’s most precious ingredients are love and time. I love the lilting feel at the end of the melody so I had to take it back a notch to resolve the tune like the record. So after a couple of takes I felt this one was cute enough to hang on the wall. So what if we were a little light on the fingers? Is this a catalyst for a new and creative idea? Playing it as a ballad always left my fretting hand exhausted by the end of tune and would require me to rest after it. Sitting with the tune for over a year and listening to as many renditions I could find brought me to this distillation. So with a fresh cup of coffee I sit down to play Ruby My Dear again this morning. The newly gain perspective helps us get closer to what we are meant to play instead of what we want to. It is not as if we hope to magically intuit the song in the future but in hope that we don’t lose the forest to the leaves. Best seasoned with a dash of time and life experience. I often like to explain it as feeling the tune in it’s extremes. The theory is this: learn it, stretch out every idea, and work through it with vigor and rigidity. Falling deeply in love with the tune I wanted to understand all the playful rhythms and this angularity I’ve heard so much about. I worked out the tune so I could play with the record, trying to understand the corners of Monk’s mind. So I started working in this tune earlier this year as I was going through a stint of listening to a lot of Art Tatum, Barry Harris, and Thelonious Monk.
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