And this is a WXAV podcast here on St. Xavier University, and today we're doing a bit of a little crossover special between student media and the music department, something that I am both a part of. I am the host of this podcast, I guess. They won an only DJ napkin, and I am joined today in the studio by my good pal, Dave Booth.
How are you? Good, how are you? I'm good, dude. So we are here to talk about some jazz and what kind of went down last semester with Dr.
Sam and his signing members of jazz combo to kind of bring in their original compositions and to kind of have the rest of the band play them. And these short interviews will be used to celebrate the official release of the studio recordings of these pieces. I am just going to play David's piece, and then we'll talk about it. Cool.
This is Beluzic. All right, you guys just heard a little snippet, a little teaser from Beluzic composed by our very own David Booth. So right off the bat, just for the people that don't know, what do you play in the jazz combo? I play in the electric bass.
And how long have you been playing bass? I've actually been playing the instrument for a long time, about 12 years. About 12 years, that's really cool. I just started studying jazz a few years ago.
Two years ago? Like when you started here? A year before, I started here. A year before.
Okay, so that's pretty cool. Have you composed music before? Yes, I've composed heavy metal songs. We would get along very well, dude.
And I do working right now on classical guitar arrangements. Oh, because that's also something you're involved with here at school, right? All right. Was composing this jazz piece different, or how was it different, I guess, from what you normally write?
Well, with this one, I was just focused on the form and making sure I had all the chord tones where they need to be, because it's a basic 12-bar blues. And I got through the whole thing, the other one, like an hour I had the melody done. Nice. From that point, I was just trying to get all the harmony, right?
Yeah. How do you feel like you came up with the main melody? Because I feel like that's kind of, you know, it's kind of different for everyone, like some people just kind of, you know... I had it in my head kind of rhythmically.
And then from there, I just played around with the chord tones a little bit, and it just kind of came together pretty quickly. Okay. You just kind of got it based off the chord tones? Chord tones in non-harmonics.
That was pretty much it. Very cool. How long have you been writing music? In general, probably ever since I picked up guitar about 12 years ago.
Nice. Very cool, dude. How was the studio experience? Oh, it's kind of cool.
Yeah, I was blown away by that, walking in, it looked like a totally professional studio. And of course, it was stressful. Yeah, yeah. I could imagine.
It always is a recording studio. Yeah, I could imagine. It was very high stakes. It was probably very new for a lot of people there.
But yeah, I mean, it seems like they came together well. How do you feel like the solos came together? How were those picked? Or how did you pick?
I don't remember exactly how that went. But we basically just gave everyone two courses. Okay. So we had the auto antenna sex and the flute and guitar and bass for two courses each.
And I think we just, at the time, while we were there, we just picked the order. Very cool. And it just kind of happened organically. Yeah.
And profs also. Yeah. I mean, the band has been playing together. Like, you guys have to see each other at school all the time.
So I can't imagine it was that awful to work with these people. But yeah, great piece. You know, great little light melody. I love it.
Well, thank you. Yeah. So Dave Booth, thanks for being the first person to be a victim of this little interview podcast series with WXAV and the SxU Jazz Band. Thanks for joining me, dude.
All right. Thanks for having me.