My Music Journey

 2023 Term 1 Week 10 A good last lesson for the Term. Here's what we discussed today: Potential Face-To-Face Lessons in holiday break: --> Bit excited to do a face to face lesson next week. 2 5 1 including maj 9's ! --> Try this in the key of C maj and G maj this week - use the Dbmaj one in Blue Bossa as an alternative and closely listen to the difference the chord changes make. Ear Training: --> This week more challenging as I couldn’t identify the specific song. So had to work it out one note at a time. - listen to it many many times to get it in your ears and under your fingers!  Albatross : --> spent a good deal of time working on pedalling so the chords won’t sound muddy - technique is to lift the foot as the fingers go down, think fingers down foot up. It’s a stabbing motion - happy with the result. Focus now on getting it faster over time but take my time building this up —> in the left hand accent the 1.  Corcovado:  --> Getting th...

Here's what we discussed today: 2 5 1 including maj 9's ! --> Try this in the key of C maj and G maj this week - use those scale degrees to help you translate the voicings - use the Dbmaj one in Blue Bossa Ear Training: --> dropbox folder  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0jijk0n5ueam15ra4jbn8/h?dl=0&rlkey=a5m6un5q91xsdmrnetasw2537 - try number 2 ! This one is very challenging Albatross : --> pedalling -follow attached chart with mark up of some pedalling - allowing the pedal to cary the sound of the chords without sounding muddy --> Practise the LH separately with metronome at 60 BPM. - low notes on strong beats of the bar 1 2 3 4 - accenting the low notes may also help with a strong rhythm - thinking about the triplet feeling (12 3 12 3 - long short long short) Corcovado:  --> First chord - change to Am6 (this is more commonly played than D7) --> use the LH comping rhythm with Ireal and try to make it all the way through the piece ♩♩𝄾 ♩. Honeysuckle Rose...

  2023 Term 1 Week 8 Here's what we discussed today: Ear Training: --> I'll do another one this week Honeysuckle Rose: Weeks objective was to --> learn the B section if you want - ear training? At this lesson I played thru entire Honeysuckle Rose melody, learned by ear from a version of Muscore. I cheated a little, looking at the chart to learn the B section.  We discussed using 6th chords and how they are used a lot in Trad Jazz. The chart I am using has lots of chords, we determined to limit the number of chords played to one per bar in most instances until I get more comfortable with playing them all. Think about timing in terms of counting, this song lends itself to playing swing because of where the strong notes are placed. Eg Bars 1 to 3, play as; 1  &  2  &  3 .  4 S  w  S  w  S .    S= Strong w = weak. Play rootless chords for Gm9 FABbD                   ...