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  • Chord Progressions - how do you learn new ones? (p.6)
2012/09/12 07:35:32
Janet
OK, point taken.  I promise to listen to jazz.  :)  Thanks! 
2012/09/12 08:07:39
The Maillard Reaction

:-)

You may enjoy this video explaining how Frank Sinatra "re-discovered" the songs of the 1930's and invigorated them by commissioning "modern" arrangements:

http://www.pbs.org/michae...-songs-for-sinatra.php

:-)




edit to add:

info for music teachers:

http://www.pbs.org/michae...gbook/for-teachers.php

2012/09/12 08:21:25
Guitarhacker
Jazz covers such a wide area when it comes to music...... 

One of my GO TO sites for listening to music is YOU TUBE.   

I simply typed in JAZZ to the search and this video was one of the first that popped up

Herbie Hancock ... he plays piano and is widely acclaimed for his skills  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrgP1u5YWEg

HH is jazz fusion and some of it is pretty technically advanced.... but listen to the colors in the chords..... listen to the chord changes. Not your typical 1-4-5 stuff but still based on it. 

You could spend every day for the next 10 years just listening to all the stuff in the jazz world on YT...   

Find a player you like and study their styling a bit. The goal is not to get it all in one week but to add new things you pick up from others over time. 
2012/09/12 11:27:18
spacealf
And Guitarhacker is right, jazz covers quite a bit of area, but I although listen to all kinds of music, I like some Smooth Jazz also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_60E9deXWTQ
with the previous drummer - Joel Rosenblat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRDcHoN6YY
album (Down the Wire) before the newest album out of all the about 35 albums over the years
with the new drummer - Bonnie Bonaparte
Scott Ambush - bass (wrote the song)
Jay Breckenstein - Saxes (leader)
Julio Fernandez - guitars
Tom Schuman - synths - keyboards
(all of them write their songs)
 
2012/09/12 12:04:19
Janet
I can feel at least one new Pandora station coming on... :) 
2012/09/12 12:08:39
batsbrew
the Dan.
2012/09/12 12:29:02
Rus W
Here's a site, you could try:  http://www.musictheory.net/lessons

I've played around with this sometimes.

It covers alot, but Chords, Diatonic Chords and Chord Progressions may be your area to look into.
2012/09/12 12:29:49
Beepster
Yanno, there are simpler ways to get great original chord progressions happening. Obviously you are familiar with the major and minor scales. If you are also familiar with the modes perfect (if not they are not hard to learn). Add to that melodic and harmonic minor and all their modes and you have a solid foundation to play with. All you have to do from there is combine the notes. Don't break your brain figuring out the what step or quality or inversion or cadences. Just take all the notes of your root mode and mash them together in various ways. Some chords will sound weird, some will sound great but all will be "correct". Then once you have some interesting chords happening that you think sound good together arrange them to create your harmony. It's more fun, more original and more artistic. Then once it's all said and done you can pick them apart pigeonhole them into traditional theory. Also no need to stop at those scales. You can try old oriental scales, middle eastern scales, pentatonics, blues, bebop, symmetrical, whatever. There is also nothing wrong with switching the root patterns up (ie: start in a natural diatonic then switch to harmonic minor modes or change keys, whatever). I do understand theory quite well (and am actually writing a book on the subject) but most of my best tunes were just me trying out different stuff and leaving the in depth analyses at the door. I find when I'm TRYING to fit stuff into theoretical boxes I end up with work that is pleasant but contrived... and that doesn't appeal to me. I want quirky and original and on occasion downright mind bending and raunchy. BREAK THE RULES!!!
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