We continued our coffee culture and music series today by wrapping things up with a brief walk through Harlem, New York. See our stopping points below: Sugar Hill Cafe Make My Cake Amy Ruth’s Street Bird Red Rooster Sylvia’s Our music poll continues with the following question – Which part of music is self-teaching? We’re […]
Read More A Brief Walk Through…HarlemAs 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 HomeworkThis past Saturday, we had our first Saturday morning episode. It was a little shorter than previous episodes. We have been busy building our keyboard situation series. We are down to the last couple of episodes of this series. In the meantime, there’s homework!–I want to challenge our listeners to mix your triads and find […]
Read More Mixing Your Sounds: Augmented & DiminishedDevelop your own recreational piano playing style…it’s up to you! How do you want to sound? In today’s CMajor Before the Show, we spoke about jazz pianists who have particularly made significant contributions…including Mary Lou Williams, Fats Waller, Count Basie, Art Tatum, Thelonius Monk, and others. We spoke about George Gerswhin one of America’s finest […]
Read More Mixing Classical and Jazz Elements
CMajor's Classroom 