Just Ask

Jon Metzger

General Info

Year: 2012
Duration: c. 5:30
Difficulty: Medium
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $18.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Vibraphone

Program Notes

A lead-sheet version of each piece, just like what a jazz musician would use, is before each piece. In comparing it to the written-out version, you can place yourself in the shoes – and mind’s ear – of an improvising jazz musician and determine what decisions were made for harmonizing and accompanying the written melody. After studying the lead-sheet, you may enjoy further embellishing the written-out version or creating completely different variations of your own. There are countless possibilities. The experience gained thereby will also help you in the future on passages of compositions that do not indicate chord symbols.

The written-out treatment of the lead sheets includes a variety of solid and broken chord textures and ascending and occasionally descending outlines of chords. Chords are stacked in thirds, fourths, and fifths, again for variety. Color tones (i.e. 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths) are frequently added; and some voicings are rootless, particularly on dominant seventh chords. Which Way Loose From Here? and Did You Say We’re Done? answer many questions about treatments of particular melody notes against specific chord types, including temporary re-harmonizations.

Recent Performances

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

Percussion Solo Works

Double East - Marimba
Imageries - Vibraphone
Just Ask - Vibraphone
Riversong - Vibraphone
Spiral Passages - Marimba

Percussion Ensemble Works

Batterie Diabolique - 7 to 9 Players
Elephant Walk - 2 Players
Jazz Bis - Vibraphone, 5 Players
On Verchiel's Wings - Vibraphone, 3 Players

With Other Instruments Works

Absence of Color - Percussion Sextet, Narrator
Black Elk - Percussion Ensemble (11), Narrator
Four Flights - Multiple Percussion, Flute
Moral Compass - Percussion Trio, Soprano Voice, Alto Saxophone
Stories - Percussion Quartet, voice, Piano
Zoroastrian Thunder - Percussion Octet, Tenor Saxophone, Guitar, Bass