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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure Forgot to say... you need to rotate your wrist from right to left so that the index finger rolls over the thumb and then rotate back to move up to D, E, and F.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure Tom, this given fingering is good. However, it's useful to remember that suggested fingerings are not prescriptive - unless, say it's an exercise designed specifically to address a fingering…
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure @Harrie Bannink Agreed, although the fingering without the mordant might be different, albeit not in this example.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @Jeremy Siskind Thanks Jeremy. Much appreciated. This two-week intensive has led to a qualitative shift in my approach to how to absorb the principles of Jazz piano.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @Douglas McCarthy it was a really useful comment from Jeremy in the video session to avoid parallel fifths, and using block cords will include parallel fifths. I haven’t thought about that before.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 I have just worked out the implication for the Zoom meeting of the time difference between GMT and PT, which is 8 hours, which means that this meeting is between 9:30 and 10:30pm in the UK.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 I have just watched Jeremy's Youtube video for Assignment 2. These couple of weeks have been so inspiring. The outcome is that I have put in place something that I had thought would be nececessary,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 I just saw a message in my Inbox from some-one in Group 3 that referred to a dead-line, presumably this relates to the Zoom call tonight.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 The previous comment was in relation to Assignment 2
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 That's a revelation. I just played arpeggios over the chords. I wasn't trying to create a melody, although I changed the starting note of the areggio and the direction of travel.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @David Thank you David. I shall investigate MuseScore. I have Microsoft Office so I imagine it will work with it. I have just made a comment to Michael that adults suffer from the frustration of…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @Michael Furmaniak I agree. Freedom comes from having structures that enable our freedom to be expressed. I think the 'child's mind' is the way to go when trying to deal with our adult frustrations…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Angela Hewitt on memory Thank you Phil, I have followed the link and will read it later - working at the moment. My first thoughts are, "Is there a vegetarian option?"
- Roy James-Pike
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @Michael Furmaniak I think Jeremy is providing the option to improvise in your style of preference, whch could be classically, following on from George Ko's sessions on TB on improvising classically,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @Roy James-Pike A couple of observations on the relative minor: the V7 [G7] chord has a B natural - following the harmonic minor, whereas the jazz version of the minor scale uses the classical…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 My first look at this today. My first observation is that V7/V is chord ii of the home key played as a major chord. It's the same major version in the minor key,…
- Roy James-Pike
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- 1 yr ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1 @David Thanks
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- 1 yr ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1 @Michael Furmaniak Don't be disappointed. It's part of the 'plan', surely. Jeremy's approach prompts the student to dig deeper to discover for oneself, which may make the content more understandable…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @Harry Vig I think E flat major and C minor are really useful keys for jazz as sax players are in E flat, so they would be playing in C major and A minor when we are in E flat and C min.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @Douglas McCarthy Good answer
- Roy James-Pike
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @David Thank you David. Much appreciated. Would you mind saying what software you used to do this? My plan is to work through the exercises without a score but your score will be very useful for…
- Roy James-Pike
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- 1 yr ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1 @Douglas McCarthy I'm a flute player too. The greatest difficulty for me is separating out different actions in each hand simultaneously. I have to play really slowly initially to ensure that I have…
- Roy James-Pike
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 Thanks for including me in this two-week intensive, which I shall start tomorrow [Saturday in the UK].
- Roy James-Pike
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- 1 yr ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: READ ME and POST HERE! Firstly, I had to drop out of the live session yesterday because we received a phone call about one of her friends being in hospital as an emergency. He’s surviving,…
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- 1 yr ago
- Finding Colors in your sound (Mini Challenge!)
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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!" Whoops ... The acoustic version of Wild is the Wind wasn't intended... too much searching going on...
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- 1 yr ago
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