Schöne Musik muss auch schön aussehen und der #Pianist meines #Jazz Duos war auch sehr angetan von dem Aussehen.
Ich mag ja die geschwungene Schreibweise (Notenschlüssel, Vorzeichen, ....). Nur bei dem Liedtext habe ich eine andere Schrift genommen, damit ich sie besser lesen kann. Ich werde ja auch nicht jünger 🤪
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Visualization of Tonal Harmony for Jazz Lead Sheets
Jazz improvisation is the extemporaneous expression of melody, and musicians commonly base their performances on chord progressions given by lead sheets. It is standard practice to commit a progression to memory by analyzing it for common patterns. This is a presentation of a visualization design intended to help reduce the amount of cognitive work needed to assimilate a song’s chords and harmonic patterns. It does this using color, shapes, and glyphs as visual variables to convey meaning about tonal centers, chord functions, and harmonic structure.
The Mel Bay :mb: system uses the I, IV, and V7 chord of any given major scale to harmonize it (i, iv, V7 for minor scales) but doesn't really explain how it derives those chords.
This 10 minute video by Tomasso Zillio handily explains how that works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOVJbMipaWY
The Mel Bay system also has exercises for harmonizing a melody with a specific chord in mind (which is how I've been tinkering with St. James Infirmary, since the #leadsheet I've got already has chords) so between those two approaches, all of your bases are covered.
(As for how to harmonize an accidental, or non-chord tone, the instructions are literally "Pick the closest chord inversion you can find and raise or lower the 4th string note to match the note")
It seems simple enough now that I've gotten it through my skull... if I had been able to take another lesson or two with Cynthia Sayer a few summers back, she probably would have covered this.
As mentioned in a previous post, I've challenging myself to learn one new jazz standard per week for the next 60 weeks.*
This week's tune is "After You've Gone" by Henry Creamer & John T. Layton, written in 1918 and now in the #publicdomain.
In case anyone wants to play along, I'll try to be faithful about posting a new lead sheet every Sunday; I figure Saturday is a pretty good "due date" for many people who have the day off, and Sunday's a good day to start working on a new one for the same reason.
Until/Unless I can think of a snappy challenge name and hashtag, I'm going to call it Jazz Tune of the Week (#jazztotw.) The goal is to learn a tune well enough to record an audio or video clip of yourself playing it... whether that's singing, playing the melody, or vamping chords, or laying down a smooth bass line. You don't have to commit to grinding for 60 weeks if you don't want to, dropping in and out is fine.
Please boost! I'm going to do this myself regardless but the more the merrier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlHUqFSDD9A
*60 weeks because I'm working through an arbitrary "standards every jazz banjo player should know" list that has 60 songs on it
#fediversemusic #music #weeklychallenge #jazz #earlyjazz #mastomusic #leadsheet @musicians
1 chanson. 1 page. 3 écoutes. https://exode.me/videos/watch/1628aa87-e183-47b0-8b24-d650c2b0cb4a
Und dann setze ich mich mal an das #leadsheet-package für #LaTeX dran. Habe die letzten Tage schon ein wenig damit herumgespielt, aber muss noch ein wenig den Umgang bei kleineren Problemen damit lernen... 🧐 #music
It's that time of year again – work on the 10th annual Beckstrom Holiday Extravaganza has begun! Recognize this melody? ...
https://chrisbeckstrom.com/2018/11/20/32158/
#beckstromholidayextravaganza #FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #holiday #leadsheet #lyrics #music #production #sheetmusic #song
