Chief Zoot Maker Daniel Ozick plays "Georgia on My Mind"
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Playing an electronic wind instrument the size of a descant (soprano) recorder that's producing a completely convincing trombone sound is absolutely wild.
Decided to invest in a modelled instrument sound for the Zoot, this one a SWAM tenor trombone, and it's staggeringly good. It will take me a while to dial in the many, many settings perfectly, but even so I suspect that most people would not think that what they heard was coming from a synthesiser. Trombonists and orchestra musicians would spot it—there are a few giveaways, made worse by my playing—which is no surprise; regardless, it's a hoot to play. Lots of Wallace and Gromit theme being played at Whartson Hall this evening.
Whew, that was a long day. Not strenuous at all, but I was completely wiped out before two o'clock.
Started the morning with Tina enjoying a spot of wild swimming, while I tootled away outside a convenient café.
Playing around with guitar pedal effects on my Zoot electronic wind instrument, running through a very cheap little electronic effects box and a Flight Tiny6 ukulele amplifier. Nothing fancy, but sounds decent enough that I might look into better options in future. The main advantage of these particular items is portability.
Most of the time I have the headphones plugged in to avoid annoying, well, pretty much everybody, but this is an opportunity to crank it up a bit.
Patched together a fingering chart for the Zoot from screenshots of the app display. Unfortunately, only the MacOS program can output a PDF chart, so I had to bodge this one in Open Office and Paint. Not the prettiest cut and paste, but close enough for jazz… assuming I could play jazz.
I did the same for the basic recorder fingering and put it on the back. Since that doesn't cover four octaves it only needed two screenshots.
The theme tune from Star Trek, played on a Zoot electronic instrument:
Remembering the correct baroque recorder fingerings and trying to sight read musical notation proved a bit much, so I've taken a pencil to the page and made things slightly easier for myself. Once I get these fingerings (and how they change across the octave) in my head I shall get back to learning to read music. There's only so far I can push my foggy brain before it topples over and goes to sleep facedown in the mud.
Daniel Ozick plays the Star Trek theme music on his Zoot electronic wind instrument:
Is it just me, or is the Muppet Zoot an obvious comment on Joe Biden's debility?
The saxophone player #Zoot from The Muppets Mayhem reminds me of #JoeBiden. He's forgetful, sometimes disoriented, not a big talker, and the character shall represent "a fifty-year-old burnt-out musician" since 1975.
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