It’s guesswork/homework time again…but this time you may use your chord charts. In yesterday’s episode, we talked about chording the notes of a scale. If you play triads on the 1st, 4th & 5th degrees of a scale, we call that playing tonic, subdominant and dominant chords. If you play single notes beginning on the […]
Read More Guesswork…Using Chord ChartsWe have a special homework treat for you this week. As a follow up to our recorded lesson with professional trumpeter, Jessica Gibson, we are listing the chords that we went over during the podcast episode. See the chords from the first four measures of Chopin Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4 below: […]
Read More Special Feature: Leadsheet for ChopinAs promised!–Your coffee culture and music homework assignment is here. We took a walk with you around New York City on our early Saturday morning podcast. Your job is to find music that inspires you. When you walk into a coffee shop…what do you hear? Do you hear songs that you wish to learn to […]
Read More Coffee Culture & Music HomeworkHi there!–Did you hear our special episode on syncopation. We talked about the emergence of ragtime music, one of the precursors of jazz. Accenting a note which would normally be unaccented is called syncopation. Syncopated rhythms are felt to go against a regular pattern of strong and weak beats (as indicated by the time signature). […]
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