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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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    • Date: 06-20-2023 at 02:30pm
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    • Day of Week: Tuesday
    • Type: class
    • Teacher: paul
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