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Inside Jazz Tunes 2021 – [August 2] – Week 6
This is the page where you can view all the homework videos, images and text that members submit so we can go over them during the weekly masterclass-chats.
This week’s homework was to choose a chart and play the first chorus of improv. In other words, don’t play the MELODY, but play as if you’d just played the melody and were starting your first chorus of improv
Student's Descriptions of their Homework & What they Need Coaching on (Click To Open)
FLINN-Heather
Link to your video
Describe your video so I know exactly what you’re sending me. If there’s anything special you want me to look at, listen to (or ignore), tell me what it is.
-this video is my accompaniment (bass, comping, fills and improv) for Supernumerary Moon. When it is worked out fully, it will accompany a singer and violinist. In this 90 sec. clip you will hear a very short intro, section A (not repeated for this clip), section B (has crazy double/triple lever flips) with some fills/improv, section A, short ending.
TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED COACHING ON. Provide specific questions here so I know what you want me to give you feedback on. Remember, I’m not grading or assessing your work – I’m coaching – and I can only do that if I know what you’re TRYING to do, so I can gear my coaching to help you achieve that.
I need some help on the intro and tips for making smoother double lever changes (up).
Is there anything else you want me to know about your video?
The tempo is a touch too slow but I’m hoping to speed it up with some practice. It is part of a set of three Moon tunes.
Moon Estuary, Supernumerary Moon, Harvest Orbiting Astronomical Body
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YES!
HENLEY-Carol
Link to your video
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This is my chorus of improv for Remember
TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED COACHING ON. Provide specific questions here so I know what you want me to give you feedback on. Remember, I’m not grading or assessing your work – I’m coaching – and I can only do that if I know what you’re TRYING to do, so I can gear my coaching to help you achieve that.
I want to get the jazz waltz feel in the left hand chord progression, but I think it is escaping me! Also, I am not happy with my melodic improv, because it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. So, please give me guidance on the left hand rhythm, and I would like suggestions on how to make the melodic improv move along instead of what I perceive as going in circles. Help! Also, I’m not sure I had any lead into the Bb – Eb chords.
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The challenge was getting my brain, my right hand and my left hand to all work together! I think they were at odds with one another.
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YES!
O’BRIEN PRIDE-Tara
Link to your video
- [Required] Describe your video so I know exactly what you’re sending me. If there’s anything special you want me to look at, listen to (or ignore), tell me what it is.
This clip is from the second half of “Orpheus.” I’m singing the melody (without words) and attempting to play a nice rhythmic accompaniment. I discovered that I can play almost the entire piece without lever flips (avoiding the G/G# issue). Where I really need/want to flip levers is for the 3rd line from the bottom, where there is a half-dim E followed by a dominant A7 (so I flip Bb and C#). That’s the focus of the clip. (I’m not to the point of improvising over the changes yet, just trying to accompany the melody.)
TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED COACHING ON. Provide specific questions here so I know what you want me to give you feedback on. Remember, I’m not grading or assessing your work – I’m coaching – and I can only do that if I know what you’re TRYING to do, so I can gear my coaching to help you achieve that.
I’m still trying to figure out how to make the lever changes without interrupting the flow and producing a soundscape that I like. What ideas would you suggest to approach this?
- Do you want feedback on your homework (this may mean that it gets shown during the chat) (see the note below about this choice)
YES!
PERRY-Yael Yaniv
Link to your video
Describe your video so I know exactly what you’re sending me. If there’s anything special you want me to look at, listen to (or ignore), tell me what it is.
This is the section of improvisation of “Remember” chord progression.
TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED COACHING ON. Provide specific questions here so I know what you want me to give you feedback on. Remember, I’m not grading or assessing your work – I’m coaching – and I can only do that if I know what you’re TRYING to do, so I can gear my coaching to help you achieve that.
All my focus was on the left hand pattern. I couldn’t also pay attention to the right hand, so I just let it go up and down but at some point it became boring. How do I make the right hand more interesting when I really need to focus on the left hand pattern?
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YES!
FLINN-Heather
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HENLEY-Carol
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O’BRIEN PRIDE-Tara
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PERRY-Yael Yaniv
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Hey everyone there is some excellent stride work going on here…..wow! Fantastic!