In this jazz standard lessons we explore ‘Tune Up’. This lesson provides an introduction on how to read lead sheets for jazz piano. ‘Tune Up’ is a great tune for beginners because the form is short and there are multiple major 251 progressions for applying basic spread voicings. ...
Mark the location of the five holes. The holes should be placed in a comfortable position for your fingerings. Drill the five holes, drilling them small to begin with and widening them as necessary. Remember that the larger the hole, the higher the note becomes. Create exact tones by match...
For example, spend the first 5 minutes of your practice session with some kind of scales and arpeggios. Pick only a couple to work on, for example, two easy ones whose fingerings and patterns you are comfortable with (such as C, D, E, G, and A) and one trickier one (such as F ...
try pulling the mic a little further back from the source and compare the results. Moving the mic closer is likely to change the tonal balance for the worse but if several instruments are playing together and spill is a concern, it’s worth experimenting: listen carefully for tonal ...
A reader recently contacted me to ask for advice about a false rape accusation he was dealing with. A girl he’d begun escalating to sex with while both were drunk, but then stopped after going no further than fingering her when he decided she was too drunk and he didn’t want to go...
He asked me for a fingering chart. I hadn’t seen one of them in 30 years, but I wrote it up for him. The trumpet has only has three fingers, so it lends itself to much better choreography than saxophone or piano; fewer keys, fewer options. He had a little coaching from me and ...
JARRETT, fingering a sleek Gibson "Flying V." J.J. (into camera) Is this axe awesome or what? Script provided for educational purposes. More scripts can be found here: http://www.sellingyourscreenplay.com/library INT. J.J.'S STATEROOM - DAY as J.J., a female rocker in the vein ...
more typically seen on shawms. Martini has the double duct flautist playing the same notes on both instruments at the moment of depiction, as we see from identical fingering on identically-sized pipes. We would expect a moment like this in early 14thcentury music, with its equally-pitched voi...
For instance, I know the drums for “Tumble in the Rough” were cut in the cedar closet upstairs. We just had to run lines up the stairs, down the hallway into a cedar closet. We cut the drums for “Big Bang Baby” out on the front lawn. [Laughs.] It was just fun. ...
it can be difficult for any beginner to decode the mysteries of a musical instrument. The piano might be a fundamental instrument, but even mastering it requires proper training. Without enough attention from your teachers, you can slack off or slither into wrong fingering techniques or miss out...