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Piano Lessons Online a Low Cost Win-Win for Students and Their Piano Teacher

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2008

It's tough trying to maintain an active lifestyle and wanting to learn piano at the same time. Not only that, but piano lessons with good teachers are expensive and it's often really difficult to schedule lessons. So to fit it all in to a filled-to-the-gills schedule more and more students have turned to taking their piano lessons on the Internet. They've proven that not only is it doable, but that they have the brains and musical ability to improve and ...

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Conference at Stony Brook: Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures, April 3-5, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2008

The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook will be presenting a major jazz conference and festival from April 3-5, 2008. Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures will explore the music's connections to the other arts and will feature many of the world's most prominent jazz scholars. Twenty-five speakers will be addressing the many ways in which the music of jazz intersects with currents in art, literature, film, theater, and politics. Rounding out the event will be performances by pianist Vijay Iyer, ...

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New on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2008

Related ii Chords In combination with dominant chords, related ii chords can dramatically increase the reharmonization potential of any progression. Watch this lesson and see how a garden variety ii-V-I-V/ii progression is reharmonized into five unique and highly chromatic progressions- and this is just scratching the surface of the possibilities that this technique affords. Learn what a related ii chord is, how and where to use it (and not use it), take a quiz on identifying them and ...

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University of Michigan Jazz Showcase Concert

Source: JazzStage Productions
March 25, 2008

Education

The Jazzschool & Yoshi's Announce Joint Education Program

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 24, 2008

The Jazzschool, Berkeley's innovative music school dedicated to the study and performance of jazz, has become the official education arm of Yoshi's, the Bay Area's foremost jazz presenting organization. The announcement of the new partnership was made today by Jazzschool Founder and Executive Director Susan Muscarella and Yoshi's Artistic Director Peter Williams. This joint venture was created to support and promote Yoshi's world-class performance venues and to further the music education of advanced young musicians aspiring to become professional jazz ...

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JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
March 24, 2008

Substitute Dominants How many times have you played the same chord changes, chorus after chorus of Autumn Leaves or Blue Bossa or All the Things You Are or any tune? Wouldn't it be nice to throw in a few new chords here and there so that each chorus would be a little different? Jazz musicians do this all the time and the number one reharmonization device that they employ for this purpose is the technique of tritone substitution- subVs ("sub ...

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Hot Jazz Makes Smart Students

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2008

SEQUIM -- It's 6:45 a.m. and these teenagers are hot. You might say they're one of the smartest bands in the state. With a collective grade-point average of 3.535, the Sequim High School Jazz Ensemble was recently named state academic champion among 2A school bands. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, or WIAA, presents academic achievement awards to bands, cheerleading squads, theater groups and dance, drill, debate and sports teams around the state, to emphasize the need for such activities in ...

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This week on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
March 10, 2008

Improvising over Rhythm Changes Part 1 & Part 2 Except for the Blues, Rhythm Changes- the name given to the chord changes to the tune I Got Rhythm- is the most common chord progression in jazz. Written in 1930 by George Gershwin, the tune was immediately co-opted by musicians as a vehicle for new tunes which yielded countless contrafacts, Duke Ellington's Cottontail, Sonny Rollins' Oleo, Monk's Rhythm-a-ning and Charlie Parker's Anthropology, to name just a few. To be ...

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