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New Improvisation Lesson Available on Scooby-Sax.com
A new improvisation lesson is available in the Online Lessons section of scooby-sax.com. In Part 1 of a two part lesson, a transcribed solo of Sonny Stitt playing “Tune Up" is examined. In addition to the transcription, 13 phrases from the solo are extracted and a practice method is explained to learn these phrases and expand ...
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7th Chord Ear Training As jazz pianists we spend an inordinate amount of time with 7th chords: learning to spell them, play them and write them. But when was the last time you worked on hearing them? I know what you're saying- “Not more ear training!" But seriously, this is an important skill. Being able to ...
Vocal Jazz Program Added to Usdan Center's 2008 Summer Season
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, now celebrating its 40th year as America's premier summer arts day camp, is adding several new programs for 2008: among them will be Vocal Jazz, an addition to Usdan's acclaimed instrumental Jazz Department. The Jazz Department was created and directed, beginning in 1986, by Dr. Billy Taylor, and ...
National Guitar Workshop 2008 Jazz Guest Artists
The National Guitar Workshop has confirmed the John Scofield Trio and Kenny Burrell as guest artists for 2008. The John Scofield Trio will appear at the New Milford, CT campus as part of the 2008 Jazz Summit. Kenny Burrell will appear in Tom Dempsey's Giants of Jazz Seminar at the Los Angeles Campus. The National Guitar ...
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Solo Jazz Piano Part 4 Spread voicings with independent lead are the foundation of solo jazz piano. When spread voicings are used together with rootless voicings their combination adds a new dimension of sophistication and depth to your solo playing. This lesson will show you how to use rootless voicings with spread voicings over ...
Clackamas Community College Now Offers Music Technology/Production Certificate
CCC's new Music Technology certificate gives students the core skills needed to enter the sound and music production industry. Career opportunities in music may include recording engineer, live sound engineer, media and sound post production for internet companies, sound/music for video games, sound/media engineer for TV, recording/sound for advertising production, video post production engineer, sound engineer ...
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Solo Jazz Piano Part 3 The right and left hand components of spread voicings with independent lead are demonstrated together in this lesson over four standard tunes: Like Someone in Love, You Are Too Beautiful, Body and Soul and Alice in Wonderland. Common melodic and harmonic circumstances that affect the voicings are considered as ...
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Triad Ear Training At first glance, triads would seem not to have much of a role in jazz. So why bother with them? Triads do play a huge role- slash chords, upper structure triads, triad pairs, not to mention John Coltrane's three tonic system are all based on triads. If you play any pop-oriented ...
