what is the first lesson you give? please explain it step by step.
is improvisation in jazz music is different with improvisation in pop music (instrument: piano)?
thanks a lot for your help
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Hi! I’m an intermediate Jazz guitarist and I’m interested in playing some of the fusion stuff later in life. I am mesmerized by some of solos because they are very musically appealing.
I know all my modes and chords that go along with it, but I would like to know about progressions and how to compose [...]
19 Aug
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Hi,
I have played flamenco guitar for a long time and recently I have discovered how amazing jazz flamenco fusion could be. I have done some improvisation which it came from how I felt at the moment. I want to educate my self and have better improvisation. What I should do? Which books are the good [...]
Here is a cool little exercise I came up with to make your chord practice a little more interesting.
It is an exercise or a pattern that is very easy to do in the key of C for Eb Alto Saxophone. This pattern can be played on Bb Tenor sax or Soprano sax as well using [...]
20 May
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OK - So I’m not a jazz musician (mainly rock guitarist) but I do have an appreciation and I am asking this question here because I get the impression that jazz musicians are musically and technically more sophisticated than pop/rock/blues musicians (no offense intended!)
I often will hit a flat spot and run out of ideas [...]
19 May
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I plan to do my project on free jazz and avant-garde jazz. I have been playing guitar for several years, and have been playing jazz for about a year, so I have some knowledge of music and traditional jazz. I have never studied or researched free jazz however, and except for a few recordings I [...]
Im not auditioning for anything , but i was wondering if i looked like im experienced for 12 years old just incase something comes up, and can somebody maybe somehow edit it by coping and pasting it if theres something wrong?
Hair: Dark BrownWeight: 129
Eyes: Dark BrownHeight: 5′ 3"
Vocal: Alto
THEATER:
The Madwoman Of [...]
For example, piano improvisation (classical/jazz/whatever)
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Okay, so I’m a trumpet player and I love jazz and I’m trying to learn how to improve my improvisation. Which I know the best way I’d practice. But I really need some like background music or like jazz chord progressions to solo over. So if you have ANY idea where I could get some [...]
I had relatively interesting debate with my aunt the other day about art. My position was that nothing can top the potential or end result of pure improvisation in the moment because when ever you begin the creative process under a set and classified boundary, that preexisting structure takes away from possibilities which may arise [...]
14 May
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Can somebody expand or elaborate on this description of ‘Modal Jazz’?
‘Modal jazz is a development beginning in the later 1950s which takes the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Previously, the goal of the soloist was to play a solo that fit into a given chord progression. However, with [...]
What is the appositive in these sentence?
1. Spirituals, religous folksongs, were sung by both blacks and whites at church revival meetings.
2. Ragtime was composed for the piano and emphasized a "ragged" style of music, syncopation.
3. "The entertainer,"a ragtime song byScott Joplin, used choppier rhythms than ordinary music.
4.Unlike most music, jazz emphasized a style of creating [...]
What is the appositive in these sentence?
1. Spirituals, religous folksongs, were sung by both blacks and whites at church revival meetings.
2. Ragtime was composed for the piano and emphasized a "ragged" style of music, syncopation.
3. "The entertainer,"a ragtime song byScott Joplin, used choppier rhythms than ordinary music.
4.Unlike most music, jazz emphasized a style of creating [...]