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Making sense of Levine's Piano Book (in 6 months)

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Working out the Circle of Fifths





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Saturday, 6 February 2010

II-V-I Chords





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Friday, 5 February 2010

INTRODUCTION: Recommended Albums 2





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Thursday, 4 February 2010

INTRODUCTION: Recommended Albums





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Wednesday, 3 February 2010

INTRODUCTION: People of Interest



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About this blog:

Since February 2010, I have been endeavouring to comprehensively wade through Mark Levine's Jazz Piano Book - with variable success... I set a rudimentary timetable, for how if I was able to spend a week on each chapter, I would be able to complete the book (a once over) in roughly six months: by July 2010.

The book is dense, and at times frustrating to follow (not all the elements are revealed in a chronological order: "later explained in Chapter 7" where a symbol has been used repeatedly without explanation for the previous three chapters!). But with the little I have done, I feel I have achieved a sense of reward and satisfaction in my ambition to decipher and make sense of one of the few books of authority in the Jazz education field.

This blog is a record of my efforts to date.

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2010 (42)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (26)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ▼  February (5)
      • Working out the Circle of Fifths
      • II-V-I Chords
      • INTRODUCTION: Recommended Albums 2
      • INTRODUCTION: Recommended Albums
      • INTRODUCTION: People of Interest

Practice points:

1 - Practice Chords in all permutations using Index Cards
2 - Practice II-V-I Chord Progressions in every key
3 - Practice II-V-I Voicings in every key

Method and approach:

- Read to 'understand'
- Make detailed notes (written/notated) so it makes sense to me
- Try to acquire the 'suggested material'
- Listen to get a feel
- Choose a tune to 'practice' the technique
- Scan to Gig Disk
- Upload to blog
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- Try to acquire recordings ahead of reading the chapter(s)

Links:

  • JazzStandards.com

Stuff to get:

- Book: 'A New History of Jazz' by Alyn Shipton
- The World's Greatest Fake Book (Sher Music Company)

Goals:

Residential courses to attend...

Notes:

- Compile 'Chapter Playlists' in iTunes.
- Compile a 'Complete Jazz Collection' so far...
- Alyn Shipton on Radio 3?...
- Keep up to date with Jamie Callum's Podcast
- Scan Index Cards
- If you don't like one version of a tune, there's usually another one that's more agreeable.
 

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