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)
Where can I get "Heart and Soul" sheet music for piano duet for free?
Q. I would like to learn heart and soul for a talent show...but i would like to get a duet so maybe one of my friends or even my sister can play with me. I dont want to buy it so which website can i go to so i can find free sheet music? thanks
A. This is the best I can do for free sheet music of the popular song:
"Heart and Soul" - lead sheet with chords
http://schmidtgracen.com/freefiles/heartandsoul.pdf
"Heart and Soul" - jazz version chords only
http://musicandyou.com/freesheetmusic/heartandsoul1.pdf
The original Hoagy Carmichael "Heart and Soul" piano/vocal version:
http://www.4shared.com/file/47539878/35fb59a5/Hoagy_Carmichael_HeartAndSoul.html?s=1
It would be great if you buy the original piano duet version here for the piano recital:
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Heart-And-Soul/2927746
Transitioning from Classical piano to Jazz/blues help/advice needed!!!?
Q. OK so im a drum set player of many years. I was accepted to study percussion at Cal Northridge in California, I also have experience playing drumset in jazz groups of varying styles, just never piano. I decided to study Finance and do music on my own time. ( long story ) I have previous piano experience as well, been taking piano lessons on top of my 13 units of study. My teacher studied at U of Oregon, good teacher but we go over more traditional classical training. Ive been putting in at least 2 hours a day since we began in may 2012'. I can play through at least 3 or 4 preludes and fugues from Bach's WTC book1 . Im deadly serious about music and although im a finance major. Id rather play piano or drums for a career if the opportunity arose. SO HERE'S MY POINT, AND MY QUESTION
What material should i work on to become a capable jazz/blues pianist??? Right now i go over arpeggios, M & m scales , octaves ect with my teacher. My classical technique is getting quite good but I want to bring it to sound jazzy and bluesy. I recently downloaded a pdf file with the Blues scales and the pentatonic scales. This has greatly helped my tech.Ive also been going over songs in the real book " blues for alice " , " have u met miss jones ". So im improving.
IS THERE ANYTHING I SHOULD BE DOING TO BECOME A BETTER JAZZ PIANIST. OR DO I NEED TO JUST KEEP ON THIS ROUTE AND BE PATIENT.?????????????????????
A. Mike-
It sounds to me as if you are on the right path and you are correct-- be patient. Unfortunately jazz careers are mostly imaginative and only occur with luck, knowing the right people and being at the right place at the right time. The same can be said for other genres, but there are music careers possible if you are versatile. After many years in the music business I went back to school and eventually earned an MBA-accounting. Finance is an excellent field and has a good cross-connection with music. Music is a business and it never hurts to be "jiggy" with the financial side of it. Especially if you become successful at music, you will draw on your background in finance. It is also possible to work for a successful music star, a recording studio or an internet music company.
I was "lucky" to have a father in the business and became a professional musician when I was 15. I started on piano but soon gravitated to drumset. I have been able to swap sets back & forth from piano & drums, usually with one of my brothers, and even added in bass also.
Your development as a musician seems to be going well. Any chance you have to attend live concerts will be helpful, especially if you can get close enough to observe and maybe interact (ask questions) with the musicians. The Real Book(s) is an exceptional tool. Listen to various recordings of the tunes and take notice of how different artists approach the tunes as well as how they were originally performed.
Scale books are useful as additional information, but you need to develop your ideas with your ears and your heart more than with your eyes and your brain (the analytical part). Of course your creative ideas will also come from your brain, but not analytically. One bridge you might enjoy between classical and jazz is the Dave Brubeck transcriptions in TIME OUT and TIME FURTHER OUT. His very classically inspired playing is carefully written out and are some of the only jazz transcriptions you can find. Also pay attention to the ways Brubeck and Vince Guaraldi approach VERY simple popular tunes such as O TANNENBAUM and CAMPTOWN RACES.
Be careful with practicing arpeggios. I used to accompany a pianist on big-band gigs who was a very good player who knew a TON of songs, but his improvisations were largely just arpeggios on vanilla chords and it was annoying! Practice arpeggios in all 12 keys and use as many chord voicings as you can muster. Also, vary the tempo, timing and meter. I have developed a set of arpeggio exercises based on a m7+11 five-finger chord. It sounds good enough that I use much of it to warm up at a strange piano when the audience is already arriving. Vary the meter of your arpeggios by doing duplets, triplets, quartets, quintets... as far as you can go. It gives the accents on different fingers every time. The same with varying the timing. Pick a rhythmic figure- say Beethoven's 5th Da-Da-Da-dum or Phantom's descending Da-Da-Da-Da-dum rather than duplets & triplets. But all the while using the m7+11 chord. I have also incorporated some of the more complex Schaum scale-book techniques. This not only gives you the needed physical exercise, but your ears will pick up on some of the tonal combinations and you will be able to fit them into your playing for an audience.
Just keep working continuously and prepare as if you have a gig the next night. Who knows, you might! But above all of this, enjoy your playing whenever and wherever you can. Sorry to be so long-winded but your story sparked me and you are a drummer/pianist as I am.
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Description : 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 We...