Tag: learning tunes
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Have You Listened to the Recordings?
Simple enough question. Have you? Or did you just learn Blue Bossa, All Blues, GDS, Canteloupe Island, Blues for Alice, ATUR and, um, all that jazz from courses? C’mon, be honest, I’m not going to set the dog on you… Jazz is as much a tradition as it is a means of personal expression. Or rather,…
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What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
How do jazz musicians learn, hear and think of tunes? They do it the way we all understand, read and speak. In chunks and in links between chunks, not word by word. Even when you put a new chart in front of them for the first time, they don’t read a chord at a time,…
Jason Lyon Music 