Q. Hi,
I've been listening to a lot of jazz piano improv and its amazing!!! I want to do it too: I know what diminished chords and augmented are but I'm not really sure what to do with them.
2. How do you find which diminished chords go with which notes? I see people doing improv and they can match chords w/ notes so easily and how do you pick and choose? Thanks!!
A. There are literally hundreds of styles of jazz. Most of what you hear, the real flashy stuff is bebop orientated - frantic tempo's, disjointed progressions, extended harmonic vocabulary, odd phrasing, and mostly the song exists as a vehicle of 'self-discovery' or what musicians call noodling.
So - Jazz isn't just playing some dim/aug chords and fucking around the C major scale, just as french isn't oui/non and good to go. Where to start?
Get a fake book - it gives you the melody and the progression. Learn the melody by heart, learn the progression by heart. This big ass pdf is a good place to start. The songs are old and Broadwayish - but it'll get you started playing real jazz songs.
http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/~vigon/amis/partoches/jazz/fichiers/Fake%20Book.pdf
From there you'll notice that certain songs have all fucked up progressions - like C major to Ebmaj7 - well, how the hell can that be? Then you'll notice that G is in the Cmaj chord as well as the thirst of Eb. So in Jazzland, as long as the note is in there somewhere (given that it's not just 'out there' or part of a weird chromatic passage, or leading into another note) it's good to play, and can transition you to a new scale. When you start to make up your melodies, write the melody and the reharmonize with more complex chords and google substitution.
Remember, the SONG comes before the solo. Learn some songs and you'll start to connect the dots on what scales are used over what chords. IMHO, most of the really hard stuff to solo over are showtunes. Find a jazzer who can make those progressions sing is really something - because everyone already knows the song/lyrics yet wants to hear something new and exciting from the jazz man. Whatever. It's all bullshit anyhow, no one listens to this crap anymore.
What is some good violin music?
Q. I work at a country club. As many may know, most golfers (especially in Florida) are rather..."experienced" in their years (aka: old). I have the chance to play my violin for them and was wondering what kind of music would be good to play. Most of them listen to pretty much 90's music, from what I've gathered putting their golf bags into their cars. Any ideas would be much appreciated! :)
Thank you in advance.
A. Do you have an accompanimental instrument, like a piano or a guitar? If not, there isn't much music that was written to have accompaniment that sounds good without it. If you're an advanced player, play some unaccompanied Bach; if you're intermediate, there are some unaccompanied fantasias by Telemann that are nice (try #10--p. 44 of this pdf: http://216.129.110.22/files/imglnks/usimg/0/05/IMSLP32136-PMLP65991-Telemann_-_12_Fantasias_for_Violin_Solo.pdf ).
If you have accompaniment, in my experience, what a lot of seniors enjoy most is jazz "standards." Get hold of a lot of CDs of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. and a "fake book" that has the melodies to the most popular songs along with chords for the other instrument. Learn a few Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin numbers like "Fly Me to the Moon" or "Night and Day." Then, once you play, keep track of what people come up to you and request most.
I need any jazz songs that have to do with rain, storms, rainbows, weather etc.?
Q. I am a female vocalist and I need any jazz songs that have to do with that theme for a performance. I already know about "Stormy Weather" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street". Thank you very much :)
A. When Sunny Gets Blue (this a ballad about a girl, nicknamed Sunny, whose now depressed. so they relate her to the weather. it starts off something like: "When Sunny gets blue, her eyes become gray and cloudly, then the rain starts to fall. Pitter patter..."
Summertime I like the Ella version A LOT!
Sunny by Bobby Hebb. this song was in my Aebersold collection of backing tracks, but i think it maybe loke an old soulful pop. idk the words, only the melody, sorry
Over the Rainbow is a song that many many jazz artists have covered
A Foggy Day i'll write again if I remember anything, I'm kinda drawing a blank. you should look up a vocal real book pdf on somewhere like 4shared.com. its a book of jazz standards with the words, melody, and chord changes (if you played guitar or piano)
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