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TECHNIQUE. STUDY AND EXERCISES
JAZZ INVENTIONS by Bill Cunliffe
6/16/2020 LESSON NOTES:
Prep. Jazz Invention #1 exercise and Jazz Invention #1
6/16/2020 LESSON NOTES:
Prep. Jazz Invention #1 exercise and Jazz Invention #1
6/30/2020:
While you still work on the Invention Nr.1 (no need for the previous page with the exercises), go ahead and start reading through the exercise and Invention Nr.2
While you still work on the Invention Nr.1 (no need for the previous page with the exercises), go ahead and start reading through the exercise and Invention Nr.2
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6/30/2020: 2 - 5 - 1 in different keys
Learn the RH so that you can play it quickly, with spirit, and with jazz feel, accents and no feel of worry about the notes. Add a simple LH to it. Be able to loop the same line over and over, or go from one line to the next, or go from one line to the previous one, all without stopping. |
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TUNE FROM THE REAL BOOK USING THE CHART
105. THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
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6/30/2020
Today's lesson focus was to build the chords in the chart that has the annotations. Goal was also to create well balanced chords, well distributed and with nice voicings. Next goal is to work on the scales that are deducted form each of the chords. The SCALE WORKSHEET below has two versions, a blank one and one with scale ideas. Feel free to write your own scale and chord ideas on the black one. Assignment. Improv: Create a "composed improvisation" that goes through the scales. You can write it down, or you can create it on the spot, but I warn you it will be difficult to improvise on these chords without having prepared them with full purpose ahead of time. I recommend to compose an improvisation which you can play as is or deviate from it as you wish. Assignment. Listening: Listen to the solo by Dexter Gordon and follow it reading the transcription posted on the right margin. Right now it is manuscript. As soon as I can I will typeset it and poste the typeset. SCALE WORKSHEET. Clean and with ideas
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Listen to the solo on YouTube (above) or download the audio file (below) to use your own app.
CHART. Clean and with chord ideas
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TRANSCRIPTION: Beautiful Love. Solo by Michel Petrucciani
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Learn the chart to understand the tune better. This version is by Jim Hall (guitar) and Michel Petrucciani (piano). The piano solo is filled with great scales and turns for a fun transcription.
To your right you will find the video from YouTube and below this paragraph is the audio of the solo in case you want to transcribe it using Voice Recorder Pro and slow it down. Piano solo starts at 3:50. The audio player starts at the solo and you can download it to slow it down with the app. Below is the chart from the Real Book, and an exercise sheet I give to students to write down the scales you would use for each chord.
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PASSED REPERTORY:There Will Never Be Another You. Eb PASSED
“Where Can I Go Without You” performed by Keith Jarrett (Transcription) PASSED "Here 's That Rainy Day (played from chart) PASSED |
FUTURE MATERIALFUTURE TRANSCRIPTION: LADY BIRD SOLO PLAYED BY FATS NAVARROSolo starts at 0:30. If you need help, the video will actually show you images of the transcribed score.
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