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EXERCISES IN 2 - 5 - 1 Major and Minor by Jimin Park
2-5-1 in Major key
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2/11
F - D - C |
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2-5-1 in Minor key
2 - Locrian
5 - Melodic minor 1/2 UP or Diminished
1 - Minor with raised 6+7 or Harmonic minor
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2/11
C - |
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MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE. C Major. Harmonization
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Harmonization of the main theme |
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TUTORIAL BASED LESSONS.
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SCALES.
Write down the scales that are being use in these exercises and crate a full chart. We are going to use as reference a jazz pianist/teacher that has a well organized channel on Youtube. First lesson, basic, will be on practicing scales based on a 2 - 5 - 1 chord progression just to get your ear used to these dissonances. After you are able to play it in the original key we will start transposing it to other keys.
Magyel "ALL OF ME" Exercises
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Learned in C, D, E.
Analyzed in E. Next is to transfer all the analytics to the exercise in C and D Then create a blank sheet containing only the analytical cues to create an improvisation based on the suggested scales. Create score that has only the indications but not the notes and following the indications you have to create the improvisation. |
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NEXT RECORDING: Blame It on My Youth (Keith Jarrett version) |
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POSTED: The Flintstones.
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RECORDED: Happy Birthday |
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Lessons with Paul Bratcher
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4/7
Mentioned: Students like Jonathan Orloff. Biff Smith arrangements and harmonizations Notebook log for practice Shehan Rajapakse and Paul's student Milo attend the same high school and both are pianists at the same Jazz Band. PAUL: Paul Carr tenor player: Hear diatonically. Exercises 5' - 10' Use the iRealPro exercises on 2-5-1 in every key and play the scales 1- starting on the note 2- starting on different notes Keep it melodic, stay diatonic Blues as a simple enough structure to apply scales as well GRB: YT ADDRESSED TO TEACHERS RATHER THAN TO STUDENTS? IEJE CONFERENCE JAZZ EDUCATION NETWORK Speakers, conferences Levine grant may cover some of the costs BPC!!! Gary Prince did not like the conferences. Paul and Gary don't coincide in pedagogical visions. Brad goes to them regularly Buy the YT material to learn the sequencing of the teaching method and delivery of information OPEN STUDIO Peter Martin and Adam Mannes Peter is the intuitive explainer Adam is the structural explainer SUSCRIBE TO THEIR PAID MATERIAL. 1st week free. Worth it. Noah -???- last name? Very well explained material GRB: VOICINGS. THE USE OF BIFF SMITH to open ears Paul goes more methodically Apply voicing and open harmonies to COMPING Chords first as 3-note chords like 3-7-9 and 7-3-5 Then 4-note chords as 3-7-9-(5 RH) and 7-3-5-(7 RH) All colors produced while comping BRATCHER CHART (See side notes) 3/17 My teaching started mostly focused on reading from Real book for classical pianists Teaching the beginnings of improvisation. Some students are starting to get it. Going back to the root. Putting myself in the shoes of the beginner student and going page by page through the book. Practicing myself what I will be teaching from the very beginning in all 12-keys. GRB: Fingering for Dominant-Bebop scale. Traditional fingering doesn’t fit Book uses a 2-1-2-1 3-2-1 3-2-1 PB: Placement of the thumb over anything else. Strengthen 1-2-3 fingering. Pivoting. Bebop scales / diminished scales / altered scales are mostly played with 1-2-3. GRB: Complex classical fingering get in the way of improvisation bc it imposes the will of the hand rather than the will of the mind. Simple fingering seems is simplify the process of transfer from your mind to the keyboard. PB doesn't have a specificities opinion on using what I call all-terrain 4 wheel drive fingering. He doesn't use that system. GRB: I am able to “hear” in my head a complete improvised solo over a chord progression. Especially after listening to recordings for a number of minutes. I can even visualize the keyboard and see my hands playing the notes slowly, so that I can almost name the notes slowly. Then when I actually try to play it, my mind stalls and the fingers want to play what they are comfortable. We exercised at the lesson singing and transferring the idea from the mind to the keys. Singing and playing the side vs your fingers having an idea and then singing it, which is the reverse process, and not ideal. GRB: At the lesson I noticed that if I looked away from the keys, my mind would be ahead of the game. If I looked at the keys, my fingers found patterns and dictated what to play. GRB: How to exercise with the students to liberate them from being stock on an idea, or stock on a small range of notes at the piano. PB: Ask them to play more "scale-ly". More "set-wise" at first. Use BACK-AND-FORTH teacher-student so they hear you play and they get inspiration from your playing. Place yourself in the level of the student, not playing out with complex lines. 1- Consecutive tones when improvising. 2- Move to thirds after first step is ok. Start with a 2-5-1, then trade fours, etc. GRB: We looked at my composed improvisation on “On Green Dolphin Street” PB: Improvise on the same tune and let's hear the difference. I could barely keep up remembering the chords. GRB: Identifying a mystery scale on a 2-5-1 in F Happens to be diminished whole-tone, mixed with melodic minor of the tonic. This is a sound common on Herbie Hancock from the 60s when he played with Miles Davis: Nefertiti, Sorcerer Creating chords directly from the scales. Practice going up each degree fo the melodic minor scale and see what tones are forming. Mulgrew Miller forms chords using the tones of the scale, rather than chord tones. 3/10
TEACHING ENCLOSURES: Chromatic motion: building muscle memory and speed Degrees of the chord: building awareness and understanding Written exercise versus mental concept:give them the model and they can turn it into an exercise. No need to write everything down. DIMINISHED SCALES They can be too advanced for some students. Teach them related to V7 chords always Gradual teaching: 1- Mixolydian 2- Introduce the 9th, the b9th and the #9th. GRB: Learn the Diminished Whole-Tone Great resource for V7 in tunes like: Caravan, Take the A Train. Starts as dim, continues as whole-tone. USING METHOD BOOKS FOR TEACHING He is thinking of creating a method similar to Suzuki but for jazz, for young children. - Jazz Piano Comping. Jim Snidero For students with bad reading skills, to learn rhythms. School big bands. Based on standards but not the actual songs (© issue). - 15 Easy Jazz Etudes. Bob Mitzer For students whose ears/reading is not yet great. "Amazing Phrasing". Debbie Denke This book helped Paul himself. Similar to Aebersold, loops not too long STUDENTS MUST GET iRealPro AND BLUETOOTH SPEAKER Use the app through a separate device fro Zooming, not the same. PREP TIME. RECYCLING MATERIAL; Paul uses a share folder in which he places material such as - Learn voicing 2-note voicing, 3-note voicings, TECH AND RESOURCES Paul takes a tune from iRealPro Records a solo on top of it using Garage Band Sends to the student for student to practice comping chords over Paul's solo. 3/3 LICKS: Full blown licks are too much and have too many elements to digest. Start by isolating a single element from the lick. "Enclosure" and play it in every key. Use it in different environments. - Enclosure of the 1, of the 3, of the 7, etc. - Goal of playing them in all 12 keys chromatically Then practice how to get IN and OUT of the enclosure. Use back-forth teacher-student demonstration so student can hear and feel inspired by hearing the teacher. Start practicing with the student 3 or 4 keys at a time. Eventually cover all 12 keys. Keep units very small. TRANSCRIPTIONS: Notes versus feel. Red Garland, Miles Davis. Relaxin' Solos are short, the pianist is a sideman rather than a big part of a trio Simpler solos for ears that still need development: Herbie Hancock -Watermelon Man Horace Silver -More of a motive approach Thelonius Monk -Low chops but dissonant. "Bag's Groove' record. APP FOR TRANSCRIPTION: Transcribe! About $30 or $40 Allows to tune the app to your own piano Guesses notes for you Can divide the transcription into sections. How many measure per week if the transcription takes 3 months? SCALES: Practice them with rhythm exercises Use words. Paul's words are "Meatloaf", "Barbecue", "Barbecue sauce", "Tommy Flanagan". CAMERA SETTING: "MANY CAM" APP for splitting and many other functions. https://manycam.com |
Practicing after 3/3 lesson3/8
Isolate technical element and practice in every key
3/10
New variation on the exercise for enclosures. Focus on each note of the chord in which we are. C7: C- E - G - Bb - C and create an enclosure for each one. Then... Cm7 C - Eb - G - Bb - C and do the same. Do this for each variation of the enclosure. 
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