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In this class, students will engage in a comprehensive process in order to cultivate their aural skills and enhance their ability to learn and play music by ear. Students can join live, or access the replays. Students Will... Listen to recordings Memorize a jazz standard Acquire the necessary tools and setup to begin transcribing Learn to “loop” and hear short phrases to begin the transcription process Learn to identify the pitches and rhythms that were played Learn to hear the harmonic progression taking place under a solo Learn what to do with their left hand Learn to take short, transcribed musical phrases and import essential jazz improvisation vocabulary into their immediate playing abilities Learn to analyze jazz harmony Learn to transpose efficiently and effectively, and how to practice transposition to further develop the skill Learn to build an advanced jazz improvisation vocabulary derived from legendary jazz musicians Learn how to accurately notate a transcribed solo Be able to ask questions live, and much more! Class Schedule: Class #1: Finding the “Right” Solo (How to Listen, i.e., “Active Listening”) Class #2: Learning the Underlying Tune Class #3: Proper Tools and Short Phrases (Work Efficiently and Don’t Cheat Yourself) Class #4: Learning to Play What You Hear (Chord and Scale Relationships) Class #5: Should I Notate While Transcribing? Class #6: What About My Left Hand? Class #7: Playing Along With Recordings Class #8: Extracting Licks and “Looping” Class #9: Harmonic Analysis Class #10: Transposing Licks (Which Keys?) ...and more to come!
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In this class, students will engage in a comprehensive process in order to cultivate their aural skills and enhance their ability to learn and play music by ear. Students Will... Listen to recordings Memorize a jazz standard Acquire the necessary tools and setup to begin transcribing Learn to “loop” and hear short phrases to begin the transcription process Learn to identify the pitches and rhythms that were played Learn to hear the harmonic progression taking place under a solo Learn what to do with their left hand Learn to take short, transcribed musical phrases and import essential jazz improvisation vocabulary into their immediate playing abilities Learn to analyze jazz harmony Learn to transpose efficiently and effectively, and how to practice transposition to further develop the skill Learn to build an advanced jazz improvisation vocabulary derived from legendary jazz musicians Learn how to accurately notate a transcribed solo and more!