As I mentioned in my first post Lesson Zero - ear training and quality of musical hearing is the most important feature of every musician. Countless music geniuses keep on saying this on many occassions, including my personal favourites Pat Methney and Miles Davis. It is not how many notes we play, not important how fast we can play them as long as our notes are "kicking" by sitting well in time and creating interesting melodies. And inner hearing is the origin of our melodies and our rhytms. Ear training is a huge subject and there is plenty of methods and systems. I have been using Ear Master Pro software many years and it is quite nice but.... But nothing compares to transcibing real music of your heroes. This is the best and fastest way to develop your ears and this was the only method available to those masters back then. Again,
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Hi guys, this week I have some mindblowing harmony game for you - based on a great Joe Pass Blues in Bb. Only 3 choruses, 12 bars each, stuffed with chords like crazy:) The big thing here is to: Learn the harmony in numbers not in chord names - you will be able to use them in any key of jazz blues.And there is plenty of great harmonic devices like: - tritone substitutions - secondary dominants - alterations and color tones in almost every chord Some more explanation you can find in a pdf I have created with the changes trnsposed to all 12keys:
Enjoy this great jazz blues of Joe Pass and let me know if you would like to see another video with detailed explanation of harmony movements, Cheers and stay tuned |