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LESSON PAGE.  HENRY

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Your lesson notes are ready.  Thank you for your practice!

JAZZ PIANO METHOD BOOK by Mark Davis

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Chapter 6.  Dominant Be-Bop Scale.
Every exercise in all 12 keys.  Write on the score any clues the will help you when transposing into difficult keys.

PASSED: (Pending recording) BLAME IT ON MY YOUTH (Levant Heyman) as played by Keith Jarrett

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Send me a recording to pass this one.
BLAME YOUTH COMPLETE -date: 4/6/2021
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Transcription assignment.  No need to write it down.
​"My Old Flame" (Johnson / Coslow)

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1-_my_old_flame.mp3
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If you would like to continue this transcription during the summer, keep advancing.  We may use it as a jury transcription for the next semester, since you would be playing in person.

REAL BOOK REPERTORY 

REAL BOOK
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Today's lesson goal was to exercise the stretch of musical ideas through chord changes.

Select a number of chords and play:
1- Scales that evolve through the chords
2- Variations on the scales that sound half way like an improvisation, half way like a scale.

real_book_10-_afternoon_in_paris.pdf
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real-book_31-as_time_goes_by.pdf
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real-book_55_blue_room.pdf
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REAL BOOK All the Things You Are
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BIFF SMITH All the Things You Are
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real-book_alice_in_wonderland.pdf
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ALICE WONDERLAND -GRB notes-
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real-book_all_the_things_you_are.pdf
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real-book_autumn_in_new_york.pdf
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real-book_bewitched.pdf
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real-book_black_orpheus.pdf
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real-book_blue_bossa.pdf
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real-book_cherokee.pdf
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- Read through
- Identify chord progressions (2-5-1, etc.)
- Identify the tools for improvisation
- Create exercises to practice the chord progressions
- Practice with the iRealPro
​- Create a final recording of the song before passing it.

Exercise on enclosures (postponed)

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​Stay focused on the Piano Method book exercises for now.

Jazz Invention Nr.11 (postponed)

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The Piano Jazz Method will take a lot of your time.  We continue a brief break from Jazz Inventions.

Exercises 2-5-1

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We are being focused now on the Piano Method book.
You can continue practicing these but I will focus our lesson on the book instead.

Major

2-5-1 major -F-
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2-5-1 major -G-
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Minor

2-5-1 minor -Cm-
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TUTORIAL BASED LESSONS.  (postponed)

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Giving this one a little break as well.  Practice it on your own, but our lesson will be focused on the material above.

Diminished scales applied to this exercise

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Chart of scales by notes and by visual reference of black keys.
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scale_exercise_2-5-1_-c-_david_magyel.pdf
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scale_exercise_2-5-1_-c-_analysis.pdf
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scale_exercise_2-5-1_-d-_david_magyel.pdf
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all_of_me_exercise_david_magyel.pdf
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ALL OF ME Magyel -C-GRB
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HENRY'S OWN ANALYSIS
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Future Real Book titles:

Material already worked on:

Lady Bird
Yesterday (Lennon McCartney)

Michelle (Lennon McCartney)
Beautiful Love
​The Safflower -fully written
​On Green Dolphin Street
​Till There Was You
​Party on the Beach (Steinway book) -fully written
​The Days of Wine and Roses
There Will Never Be Another You. Eb
“Where Can I Go Without You” performed by Keith Jarrett  (Transcription) 
"Here 's That Rainy Day (played from chart)
yesterday_real_book.pdf
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michelle_real_book.pdf
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green_dolphin_street_real_book.pdf
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GREEN DOLPHIN transcribed solo GABRIEL
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BEAUTIFUL LOVE Solo Petrucciani
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BEAUTIFUL LOVE scale suggestions
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BEAUTIFUL LOVE with alternate chords
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SAFFLOWER Sarah J Cion
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TILL THERE WAS YOU Real Book chart
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TILL THERE WAS YOU GRB some chord ideas
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JUST FRIENDS -The Real Book-
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lady_bird_real_book.pdf
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