#3 - Tim Carey - chord symbols simplified - scroll down for week #4 challenge

Here is the link for the week #3 Greenblatt transcription challenge!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lnNOA05llGd8l_TKUOdiHkfU_a6TTnCw/view?usp=sharing

Tune of the week to learn the head on is Recorda-me
Another great excuse to work on your minor scales!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwRbcb4ADjY

Send your videos to Jack Hillman
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Try to learn it by ear without the leadsheet!

Tim Carey gave a great short summary on how to understand chords ... here's the handout. Study it and there may be quiz this week for prizes?

Here is the lecture and demonstration performance featuring Tim and Marina Albero!

JC Session #3 – Tim Carey – “Cord Symbols Simplified.” --- https://youtu.be/ItzVlNccDto

JC Session #3 – Tim Carey and Marina Albero – Song. -- https://youtu.be/zqFymiMsV0c

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzoGR9KaGamTNDRlY3lUQkpKUGJHeFhLVXA2dVh2MWItb0Vn/view?usp=sharing


Email me with questions.

Older Jazz Colony posts are still excellent ... take a look and listen if you need inspiration.

Week 3 - Rodney's summary of Greenblatt Combo "Ariel Boundaries"

• approach chord tones from a half step away
• Bessie’s Blues
• Alternate chordal instruments when comping 
• chord tones, repetition, rhythmic authority. 
• Colonial Uprising
• The turn around sets up the next set of chords so we need to do a “pirouette” in terms of chords. 
• Horn players should practice turn around to be able to play through quick changes
• Ultimate is last, pen ultimate is before last and antipenultimate is the before the before last. Preantipenultimate is the measure before the before the before the last measure.
• Having a goal helps you be disciplined, and consistent. Play music till your 80 and think about who you want to play with in 5 years and where you want to be musically. 
• Drum and bass’s connection was really good but the piano and guitar need to connect with them more, so that the rhythm section can sparkle 
• instead of starting on the root, start on the upper extensions of the chord and come down instead. 
• Clowns in intalian is clowny for plural and for singular it’s clowno
• Piano and guitar needs to get better at deciding who is comping while playing. Work as a team

Joel Steinke summary of the progress in Milo Peterson Combo - "Extension Experience"

Week 1:

Milo Peterson group: Our group song is solar. The first meeting began with Milo discussing and then demonstrating the origins of "jazz" rhythm. We talked about the concept of learning by rote, and he then had us play various parts of the groove by clapping. Milo stressed the importance of the 3 against 4 that makes the music we play "swing". We then moved on to playing some commonly known tunes among us to get comfortable and in the colony mindset. C Jam Blues (Duke's Place), and Straight No Chaser, respectively. These 12 bar blues' led nicely into our group song, solar, another 12 bar tune, but NOT a blues. Joel, Jai, King, and Anthony played solar for the class to hear. Milo again shared great stories about the origins of the song, the true composer (not Miles Davis!) and the significance of the C- maj7 quality of the first chord. We then practiced two scales as a group. C melodic minor, and C harmonic minor. Ending our first session we learned the full head to Solar by ear. Milo left us to go home and find a lead sheet of solar and listen to a recording.

Week 2:

Because we missed our trumpet, drummer, and bass player dearly, Milo worked with the three of us there and had a small lesson. We worked out how to play through changes with patterns like 1 2 3 5, and 1 3 5 7 (these numbers represent notes on any given scale and are interchangeable). Milo asked that we practice each one (and perhaps our own patterns) over the changes of Solar to gain some familiarity and comfort when soloing. 

Week 3:

Yet another week without bass and drums (and trumpet). It was brought to Milo's attention that we will need two songs for our concert; we ended up deciding to play My Little Suede Shoes, a wonderfully melodic tune written by Bird. We spent half of the class learning this melody by rote too as we did Solar. We then spent the remaining time using our chord patterns (1 2 3 5 and 1 3 5 7 and 1 2 3 b7) over the A and B sections. At the end of rehearsal, a lead sheet was given to those present. Milo challenged us to continue to explore patterns as a device to learn the tune. 

Nebee's summary for Paul Gabrielson group - "Shred Shed"

We received two new charts, “One by One” by Wayne Shorter and “Mama Cita” by Joe Henderson. We ran through both tunes in addition to rehearsing “Stolen Moments” by Oliver Nelson. On Stolen Moments, we broke down soloing over minor changes. For instance, since the tune is in C minor, we approached soloing over the changes from its parallel major, that being Eb major. This week’s jam of the week is “Recordame” by Joe Henderson. We ran through it at the end of our last rehearsal and may run through it again next week. 

Hit the shed!

Dippin' Dudes summary from Max ....

The Marina Albero combo split up into sectionals for last Tuesday's session. The horns worked on Bobplicity and tried to emulate some of the phrasing. We listened a lot to the recording. We also experimented on harmonizing the melody to maiden voyage. We also spent a little time talking about the dorian sound and the minor 6/9 sound. 

When we finally came together we played through Recorda-me and Moose the Mooch. Marina encouraged us to work on hitting the chord tones on the ii-V-Is and the I-vi-ii-V-Is. She suggested we arppegiate every chord (1,3,5,7 or 1,2,3,5). 

Bonus homework was to check out Miles Davis's "Serpent's tooth" and try to transcribe some of the notes.

WEEK #4 Challenge!

Next week's transcription assignment is Bluesville by Sonny Red with solo by Jimmy Heath - email your recordings to Mr. Greenblatt

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzoGR9KaGamTUURBQkVNekNxaWYwajBwcDdmWEFmMUUzZFB3/view?usp=sharing

Next week's tune to learn is Yardbird Suite by Charlie Parker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmroWIcCNUI

Send your videos to Dylan Alrud-Faltisco da.faltisco@icloud.com