Learning Goals:
By participating in this course students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the political, socio-economic, cultural, geographical, and historical implications that gave rise to what is often described as the only “true American art form” - jazz music. Through lectures, presentations, videos, guided listenings, and demonstrations, students will learn about famous jazz musicians, musical structures, important events, and how to practice “active listening.”
Part 1: Early Jazz 1900-1930
Class #1: The Roots of Jazz
Class #2: New Orleans
Class #3 New Orleans (cont.)
Class #4: New York in the 1920s
Class #5: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Part 2: The Swing Era
Class #6: Swing Bands
Class #7: Swing Bands (cont.)
Class #8: Count Basie
Class #9: Duke Ellington
Class #10: A World of Soloists
Part 3: Modern Jazz
Class #11: Bebop
Class #12: The 1950s - Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Class #13: Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Class #14: Miles Davis
Class #15: John Coltrane
In this class, John McKenna will be showing different approaches to improvisation. He will be discussing notes, scales, rhythm, phrasing and more.
This Premier-level class is great for all levels of improvisers...even beginners!
In this class, Paul will feature a new pop tune each session and help students learn the song through the use of performance, active listening, discussion, analysis, guided practice, and professional tips and tricks. Paul will focus on topics such as how to select pop songs that will work well on the piano and that your audience will love, how to break the song into simple sections, how to create an arrangement for solo piano, how to memorize, how-where-and-when to improvise, and how to practice for mastery. Additionally, Paul will occasionally explain and notate music theory concepts as they become applicable.
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!
In this live class, students will learn to use the music notation software “Sibelius.” Students can join live, or access the replays.
Students Will...
- Be introduced to the interface and the most basic fundamental operations
- Learn how to set-up a new score
- Learn some of the most commonly-used functions such as note entry, rhythm entry, and accidentals
- Learn the most commonly used “style guides” for proper piano notation scores
- Learn how to enter articulations, dynamics, phrase markings, and chord symbols
- Learn to cut-and-paste
- Learn to create a lead sheet
- Learn to use 1st and 2nd ending repeats
- Learn to create rhythm slashes
- Be able to ask questions live, and much more!
Class Schedule:
- Class #1: Getting a Feel for the Interface
- Class #2: Setting Up a Score, Entering Notes and Rhythms (1st Keypad), Cut-and-Paste
- Class #3: Playback Functions, Mixer, Building Chords
- Class #4: Repeats, Barlines, 1st and 2nd Endings, Codas
- Class #5: Chord Symbols, Articulations, Dynamics, Phrase Markings
- Class #6: Creating a Lead Sheet
- Class #7: Transposing, Adding Bars (Intros/Endings)
- Class #8: Rhythm Slashes and Noteheads
- Class #9: Line Breaks, Page Breaks, and Score Organization
- Class #10: Finishing Touches and Advanced Functions
- ...and more to come!
Learning Goals:
By participating in this course students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the political, socio-economic, cultural, geographical, and historical implications that gave rise to what is often described as the only “true American art form” - jazz music. Through lectures, presentations, videos, guided listenings, and demonstrations, students will learn about famous jazz musicians, musical structures, important events, and how to practice “active listening.”
Part 1: Early Jazz 1900-1930
Class #1: The Roots of Jazz
Class #2: New Orleans
Class #3 New Orleans (cont.)
Class #4: New York in the 1920s
Class #5: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Part 2: The Swing Era
Class #6: Swing Bands
Class #7: Swing Bands (cont.)
Class #8: Count Basie
Class #9: Duke Ellington
Class #10: A World of Soloists
Part 3: Modern Jazz
Class #11: Bebop
Class #12: The 1950s - Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Class #13: Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Class #14: Miles Davis
Class #15: John Coltrane
In this bi-weekly class, Nina will be teaching you how to create your own jazz piano arrangements using a variety of techniques.
You'll learn simple techniques like roots and shells while also expanding your knowledge of jazz piano arranging with fills, runs and the theory needed to make your playing sizzle.
Nina will also be diving into improvisation, solo and group playing and much more.
Ask Nina your questions about jazz piano in these live classes. Nina is also heavily into jazz organ and latin music so you can pick her brain about those topics as well!
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!
In this live class, students will learn to use the music notation software “Sibelius.” Students can join live, or access the replays.
Students Will...
- Be introduced to the interface and the most basic fundamental operations
- Learn how to set-up a new score
- Learn some of the most commonly-used functions such as note entry, rhythm entry, and accidentals
- Learn the most commonly used “style guides” for proper piano notation scores
- Learn how to enter articulations, dynamics, phrase markings, and chord symbols
- Learn to cut-and-paste
- Learn to create a lead sheet
- Learn to use 1st and 2nd ending repeats
- Learn to create rhythm slashes
- Be able to ask questions live, and much more!
Class Schedule:
- Class #1: Getting a Feel for the Interface
- Class #2: Setting Up a Score, Entering Notes and Rhythms (1st Keypad), Cut-and-Paste
- Class #3: Playback Functions, Mixer, Building Chords
- Class #4: Repeats, Barlines, 1st and 2nd Endings, Codas
- Class #5: Chord Symbols, Articulations, Dynamics, Phrase Markings
- Class #6: Creating a Lead Sheet
- Class #7: Transposing, Adding Bars (Intros/Endings)
- Class #8: Rhythm Slashes and Noteheads
- Class #9: Line Breaks, Page Breaks, and Score Organization
- Class #10: Finishing Touches and Advanced Functions
- ...and more to come!
Learning Goals:
By participating in this course students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the political, socio-economic, cultural, geographical, and historical implications that gave rise to what is often described as the only “true American art form” - jazz music. Through lectures, presentations, videos, guided listenings, and demonstrations, students will learn about famous jazz musicians, musical structures, important events, and how to practice “active listening.”
Part 1: Early Jazz 1900-1930
Class #1: The Roots of Jazz
Class #2: New Orleans
Class #3 New Orleans (cont.)
Class #4: New York in the 1920s
Class #5: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Part 2: The Swing Era
Class #6: Swing Bands
Class #7: Swing Bands (cont.)
Class #8: Count Basie
Class #9: Duke Ellington
Class #10: A World of Soloists
Part 3: Modern Jazz
Class #11: Bebop
Class #12: The 1950s - Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Class #13: Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Class #14: Miles Davis
Class #15: John Coltrane
In this class, John McKenna will be showing different approaches to improvisation. He will be discussing notes, scales, rhythm, phrasing and more.
This Premier-level class is great for all levels of improvisers...even beginners!
In this class, Paul will feature a new pop tune each session and help students learn the song through the use of performance, active listening, discussion, analysis, guided practice, and professional tips and tricks. Paul will focus on topics such as how to select pop songs that will work well on the piano and that your audience will love, how to break the song into simple sections, how to create an arrangement for solo piano, how to memorize, how-where-and-when to improvise, and how to practice for mastery. Additionally, Paul will occasionally explain and notate music theory concepts as they become applicable.
Anna will be working both singers and non-singers to feel more confident using their voice in their art.
As a pianist and Berklee grad herself, Anna will be there to help students overcome the fear and frustration surrounding playing the piano and singing at the same time. Anna will also give feedback and direction to anyone aiming to improve upon their singing skills, even if they are absolute beginners. All levels are welcome to attend.
Here's what students have to say:
"Amazing experience! Anna Rizzo is a skilled teacher, a great listener and a really sweet person! I came to the session wondering how this training would help me as a pianist and I left the session knowing I would try to sing and start learning how to accompany myself at the piano! Awesome!"
"As the voice is the first instrument, I would say that all musicians will find treasures there. More specifically, those trainings will surely help singers, but not only! They will also be particularly useful to those who play with vocalists, they will better understand their needs."
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!
In this live class, students will learn to use the music notation software “Sibelius.” Students can join live, or access the replays.
Students Will...
- Be introduced to the interface and the most basic fundamental operations
- Learn how to set-up a new score
- Learn some of the most commonly-used functions such as note entry, rhythm entry, and accidentals
- Learn the most commonly used “style guides” for proper piano notation scores
- Learn how to enter articulations, dynamics, phrase markings, and chord symbols
- Learn to cut-and-paste
- Learn to create a lead sheet
- Learn to use 1st and 2nd ending repeats
- Learn to create rhythm slashes
- Be able to ask questions live, and much more!
Class Schedule:
- Class #1: Getting a Feel for the Interface
- Class #2: Setting Up a Score, Entering Notes and Rhythms (1st Keypad), Cut-and-Paste
- Class #3: Playback Functions, Mixer, Building Chords
- Class #4: Repeats, Barlines, 1st and 2nd Endings, Codas
- Class #5: Chord Symbols, Articulations, Dynamics, Phrase Markings
- Class #6: Creating a Lead Sheet
- Class #7: Transposing, Adding Bars (Intros/Endings)
- Class #8: Rhythm Slashes and Noteheads
- Class #9: Line Breaks, Page Breaks, and Score Organization
- Class #10: Finishing Touches and Advanced Functions
- ...and more to come!
Learning Goals:
By participating in this course students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the political, socio-economic, cultural, geographical, and historical implications that gave rise to what is often described as the only “true American art form” - jazz music. Through lectures, presentations, videos, guided listenings, and demonstrations, students will learn about famous jazz musicians, musical structures, important events, and how to practice “active listening.”
Part 1: Early Jazz 1900-1930
Class #1: The Roots of Jazz
Class #2: New Orleans
Class #3 New Orleans (cont.)
Class #4: New York in the 1920s
Class #5: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Part 2: The Swing Era
Class #6: Swing Bands
Class #7: Swing Bands (cont.)
Class #8: Count Basie
Class #9: Duke Ellington
Class #10: A World of Soloists
Part 3: Modern Jazz
Class #11: Bebop
Class #12: The 1950s - Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Class #13: Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Class #14: Miles Davis
Class #15: John Coltrane
In this bi-weekly class for Premier-level students, Nina will be teaching you how to create your own jazz piano arrangements using a variety of techniques.
You'll learn simple techniques like roots and shells while also expanding your knowledge of jazz piano arranging with fills, runs and the theory needed to make your playing sizzle.
Nina will also be diving into improvisation, solo and group playing and much more.
Ask Nina your questions about jazz piano in these live classes. Nina is also heavily into jazz organ and latin music so you can pick her brain about those topics as well!
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!
In this live class, students will learn to use the music notation software “Sibelius.” Students can join live, or access the replays.
Students Will...
- Be introduced to the interface and the most basic fundamental operations
- Learn how to set-up a new score
- Learn some of the most commonly-used functions such as note entry, rhythm entry, and accidentals
- Learn the most commonly used “style guides” for proper piano notation scores
- Learn how to enter articulations, dynamics, phrase markings, and chord symbols
- Learn to cut-and-paste
- Learn to create a lead sheet
- Learn to use 1st and 2nd ending repeats
- Learn to create rhythm slashes
- Be able to ask questions live, and much more!
Class Schedule:
- Class #1: Getting a Feel for the Interface
- Class #2: Setting Up a Score, Entering Notes and Rhythms (1st Keypad), Cut-and-Paste
- Class #3: Playback Functions, Mixer, Building Chords
- Class #4: Repeats, Barlines, 1st and 2nd Endings, Codas
- Class #5: Chord Symbols, Articulations, Dynamics, Phrase Markings
- Class #6: Creating a Lead Sheet
- Class #7: Transposing, Adding Bars (Intros/Endings)
- Class #8: Rhythm Slashes and Noteheads
- Class #9: Line Breaks, Page Breaks, and Score Organization
- Class #10: Finishing Touches and Advanced Functions
- ...and more to come!
Learning Goals:
By participating in this course students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the political, socio-economic, cultural, geographical, and historical implications that gave rise to what is often described as the only “true American art form” - jazz music. Through lectures, presentations, videos, guided listenings, and demonstrations, students will learn about famous jazz musicians, musical structures, important events, and how to practice “active listening.”
Part 1: Early Jazz 1900-1930
Class #1: The Roots of Jazz
Class #2: New Orleans
Class #3 New Orleans (cont.)
Class #4: New York in the 1920s
Class #5: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Part 2: The Swing Era
Class #6: Swing Bands
Class #7: Swing Bands (cont.)
Class #8: Count Basie
Class #9: Duke Ellington
Class #10: A World of Soloists
Part 3: Modern Jazz
Class #11: Bebop
Class #12: The 1950s - Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Class #13: Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Class #14: Miles Davis
Class #15: John Coltrane
In this class, John McKenna will be showing different approaches to improvisation. He will be discussing notes, scales, rhythm, phrasing and more.
This Premier-level class is great for all levels of improvisers...even beginners!
In this class, Paul will feature a new pop tune each session and help students learn the song through the use of performance, active listening, discussion, analysis, guided practice, and professional tips and tricks. Paul will focus on topics such as how to select pop songs that will work well on the piano and that your audience will love, how to break the song into simple sections, how to create an arrangement for solo piano, how to memorize, how-where-and-when to improvise, and how to practice for mastery. Additionally, Paul will occasionally explain and notate music theory concepts as they become applicable.
Our Jazzedge resident drummer, Mike Marble, will be challenging your rhythm skills in this live training session. He will work with you on rhythm sight-reading and how to best interpret and perform all different types of rhythms. Rhythm is the backbone of music, and without good rhythm and time your playing will sound lackluster.
These ongoing live training sessions with Mike will both challenge and inspire your playing.
Come ask your questions about rhythm, working with drummers, drumming or playing with a group. Mike has an expansive pedigree of performances with a wide range of musicians and performing multiple different styles of music ranging from jazz and rock to blues and funk.
Here's what students have to say:
"That Live Rhythm Training was awesome! Mike Marble is not only a great teacher, but also a really good entertainer! We had so much fun! Adapted to piano players, his training is a perfect way to progress in terms of rhythm and also to better understand how a drummer reads rhythms, practices and performs. Highly recommended!"
"Awesome opportunity to enter into a drummer's mind! In addition, rhythm being at the core of all music, everything we learn here is essential, whatever instrument we play!"
"Just a huge thank you! I loved your teaching and the vibe you created, which is present in all your Lessons on Jazzedge Academy site! So essential to enjoy learning! Before the session, I was not sure how I would apply your teaching to my piano practice and you gave the answer right away! No doubt that I will progress through your teaching! Awesome!"
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!
In this live class, students will learn to use the music notation software “Sibelius.” Students can join live, or access the replays.
Students Will...
- Be introduced to the interface and the most basic fundamental operations
- Learn how to set-up a new score
- Learn some of the most commonly-used functions such as note entry, rhythm entry, and accidentals
- Learn the most commonly used “style guides” for proper piano notation scores
- Learn how to enter articulations, dynamics, phrase markings, and chord symbols
- Learn to cut-and-paste
- Learn to create a lead sheet
- Learn to use 1st and 2nd ending repeats
- Learn to create rhythm slashes
- Be able to ask questions live, and much more!
Class Schedule:
- Class #1: Getting a Feel for the Interface
- Class #2: Setting Up a Score, Entering Notes and Rhythms (1st Keypad), Cut-and-Paste
- Class #3: Playback Functions, Mixer, Building Chords
- Class #4: Repeats, Barlines, 1st and 2nd Endings, Codas
- Class #5: Chord Symbols, Articulations, Dynamics, Phrase Markings
- Class #6: Creating a Lead Sheet
- Class #7: Transposing, Adding Bars (Intros/Endings)
- Class #8: Rhythm Slashes and Noteheads
- Class #9: Line Breaks, Page Breaks, and Score Organization
- Class #10: Finishing Touches and Advanced Functions
- ...and more to come!
Learning Goals:
By participating in this course students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the political, socio-economic, cultural, geographical, and historical implications that gave rise to what is often described as the only “true American art form” - jazz music. Through lectures, presentations, videos, guided listenings, and demonstrations, students will learn about famous jazz musicians, musical structures, important events, and how to practice “active listening.”
Part 1: Early Jazz 1900-1930
Class #1: The Roots of Jazz
Class #2: New Orleans
Class #3 New Orleans (cont.)
Class #4: New York in the 1920s
Class #5: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Part 2: The Swing Era
Class #6: Swing Bands
Class #7: Swing Bands (cont.)
Class #8: Count Basie
Class #9: Duke Ellington
Class #10: A World of Soloists
Part 3: Modern Jazz
Class #11: Bebop
Class #12: The 1950s - Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Class #13: Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Class #14: Miles Davis
Class #15: John Coltrane
Jitterbug Waltz
Anna will be working both singers and non-singers to feel more confident using their voice in their art.
As a pianist and Berklee grad herself, Anna will be there to help students overcome the fear and frustration surrounding playing the piano and singing at the same time. Anna will also give feedback and direction to anyone aiming to improve upon their singing skills, even if they are absolute beginners. All levels are welcome to attend.
Here's what students have to say:
"Amazing experience! Anna Rizzo is a skilled teacher, a great listener and a really sweet person! I came to the session wondering how this training would help me as a pianist and I left the session knowing I would try to sing and start learning how to accompany myself at the piano! Awesome!"
"As the voice is the first instrument, I would say that all musicians will find treasures there. More specifically, those trainings will surely help singers, but not only! They will also be particularly useful to those who play with vocalists, they will better understand their needs."
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!
In this live class, students will learn to use the music notation software “Sibelius.” Students can join live, or access the replays.
Students Will...
- Be introduced to the interface and the most basic fundamental operations
- Learn how to set-up a new score
- Learn some of the most commonly-used functions such as note entry, rhythm entry, and accidentals
- Learn the most commonly used “style guides” for proper piano notation scores
- Learn how to enter articulations, dynamics, phrase markings, and chord symbols
- Learn to cut-and-paste
- Learn to create a lead sheet
- Learn to use 1st and 2nd ending repeats
- Learn to create rhythm slashes
- Be able to ask questions live, and much more!
Class Schedule:
- Class #1: Getting a Feel for the Interface
- Class #2: Setting Up a Score, Entering Notes and Rhythms (1st Keypad), Cut-and-Paste
- Class #3: Playback Functions, Mixer, Building Chords
- Class #4: Repeats, Barlines, 1st and 2nd Endings, Codas
- Class #5: Chord Symbols, Articulations, Dynamics, Phrase Markings
- Class #6: Creating a Lead Sheet
- Class #7: Transposing, Adding Bars (Intros/Endings)
- Class #8: Rhythm Slashes and Noteheads
- Class #9: Line Breaks, Page Breaks, and Score Organization
- Class #10: Finishing Touches and Advanced Functions
- ...and more to come!
Learning Goals:
By participating in this course students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the political, socio-economic, cultural, geographical, and historical implications that gave rise to what is often described as the only “true American art form” - jazz music. Through lectures, presentations, videos, guided listenings, and demonstrations, students will learn about famous jazz musicians, musical structures, important events, and how to practice “active listening.”
Part 1: Early Jazz 1900-1930
Class #1: The Roots of Jazz
Class #2: New Orleans
Class #3 New Orleans (cont.)
Class #4: New York in the 1920s
Class #5: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Part 2: The Swing Era
Class #6: Swing Bands
Class #7: Swing Bands (cont.)
Class #8: Count Basie
Class #9: Duke Ellington
Class #10: A World of Soloists
Part 3: Modern Jazz
Class #11: Bebop
Class #12: The 1950s - Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Class #13: Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Class #14: Miles Davis
Class #15: John Coltrane
In this class, John McKenna will be showing different approaches to improvisation. He will be discussing notes, scales, rhythm, phrasing and more.
This Premier-level class is great for all levels of improvisers...even beginners!
In this class, Paul will feature a new pop tune each session and help students learn the song through the use of performance, active listening, discussion, analysis, guided practice, and professional tips and tricks. Paul will focus on topics such as how to select pop songs that will work well on the piano and that your audience will love, how to break the song into simple sections, how to create an arrangement for solo piano, how to memorize, how-where-and-when to improvise, and how to practice for mastery. Additionally, Paul will occasionally explain and notate music theory concepts as they become applicable.
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!
In this live class, students will learn to use the music notation software “Sibelius.” Students can join live, or access the replays.
Students Will...
- Be introduced to the interface and the most basic fundamental operations
- Learn how to set-up a new score
- Learn some of the most commonly-used functions such as note entry, rhythm entry, and accidentals
- Learn the most commonly used “style guides” for proper piano notation scores
- Learn how to enter articulations, dynamics, phrase markings, and chord symbols
- Learn to cut-and-paste
- Learn to create a lead sheet
- Learn to use 1st and 2nd ending repeats
- Learn to create rhythm slashes
- Be able to ask questions live, and much more!
Class Schedule:
- Class #1: Getting a Feel for the Interface
- Class #2: Setting Up a Score, Entering Notes and Rhythms (1st Keypad), Cut-and-Paste
- Class #3: Playback Functions, Mixer, Building Chords
- Class #4: Repeats, Barlines, 1st and 2nd Endings, Codas
- Class #5: Chord Symbols, Articulations, Dynamics, Phrase Markings
- Class #6: Creating a Lead Sheet
- Class #7: Transposing, Adding Bars (Intros/Endings)
- Class #8: Rhythm Slashes and Noteheads
- Class #9: Line Breaks, Page Breaks, and Score Organization
- Class #10: Finishing Touches and Advanced Functions
- ...and more to come!
Learning Goals:
By participating in this course students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the political, socio-economic, cultural, geographical, and historical implications that gave rise to what is often described as the only “true American art form” - jazz music. Through lectures, presentations, videos, guided listenings, and demonstrations, students will learn about famous jazz musicians, musical structures, important events, and how to practice “active listening.”
Part 1: Early Jazz 1900-1930
Class #1: The Roots of Jazz
Class #2: New Orleans
Class #3 New Orleans (cont.)
Class #4: New York in the 1920s
Class #5: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Part 2: The Swing Era
Class #6: Swing Bands
Class #7: Swing Bands (cont.)
Class #8: Count Basie
Class #9: Duke Ellington
Class #10: A World of Soloists
Part 3: Modern Jazz
Class #11: Bebop
Class #12: The 1950s - Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Class #13: Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Class #14: Miles Davis
Class #15: John Coltrane
