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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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- 2 yrs 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.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
The previous comment was in relation to Assignment 2
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- 2 yrs ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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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.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs 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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- 2 yrs 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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- 2 yrs 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_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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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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- 2 yrs 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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- 2 yrs 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_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1
@David Thanks
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs 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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- 2 yrs 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.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1
@Douglas McCarthy Good answer
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs 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_JamesPike
- 2 yrs 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_JamesPike
- 2 yrs 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_JamesPike
- 2 yrs 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,…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs 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...
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!"
Wild is the Wind https://youtu.be/ZPSew1qxCjU
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- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!"
Nature Boy This and Wild is the Wind need to go faster, which I can do. They don't feel this slow when I am playing them. Good outcome of recording them... https://youtu.be/QSMCRgpPIdU
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- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!"
Forgot the coda https://youtu.be/qiZwDQq9dzc
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!"
Mozart B Section and Coda https://youtu.be/3Zi1GMWcR94
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!"
The Mozart - start of the A section. https://youtu.be/GT8paQ6e3WM
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!"
@Dominic Cheli Thank you Dominic. I wasn't intending them to be used tonight. You will have sorted out your running order already, no doubt. The fourth outcome of this challenge was omitted,…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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