This is gold.

This is very awesome. Insight from a master. Trent going deep again. I love how he told him to play it like he didn't know how to play guitar. Awesome.

Music writers who aren't musicians should avoid referencing things like "signatures". It just makes you sound ignorant. There's nothing odd about either the time signatures or the key signatures on "In A Silent Way".

but trent IS a musician...
...and a whole lot of other things.

I was meaning something a bit more general. How John was able to hang with whatever it was that Miles was playing. And that's one of the reasons Miles loved playing with him so much. Miles did occasionally play the odd time signature.

Sorry I wasn't clearer. Writing for print means an economy of words. Sometimes it's tricky.

Where do I talk about key signatures in this piece?

John told Miles, "It'll take a minute to put the chords and melody together since I only had a piano part."

Playing piano is slightly different than playing a guitar, you know? He was wanting to adapt the notes to guitar, not necessarily transcribe.

Thanks for reading though. I sincerely appreciate it. From the bottom of my heart.

Mclaughlin's 1973 version of A Love Supreme is one of the most spiritual pieces of music I have ever heard. It soars and screams. It also points out how overrated Carlos Santana is- his playing is lumpy and leaden compared to the Mclaughlin solos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c9g7Gzg9…

Play it LOUD.

I am truly apalled by all of this!!! Love it or leave it, you damn hippies!!!!

This is tops! I was enraptured by every word. Those early Miles albums albums are such stellar exemplars of in the moment music.

Sorry Trent, perhaps, as a musician myself, I jumped to the conclusion when you wrote "He was able to hook into the odd signatures" that you were referring to the musical definition of the term and not something else. Mea culpa.

I can't think offhand of too many odd meter pieces by Miles. Frelon Brun is one, other than that nothing is coming to mind.