These "transcription" courses first ask you to loosely sing the song, then loosely improvise over it with your instruments (you can customize your own), then sing in different keys and do it more thoroughly, then improvise more closely to the actual song. Only one course for now since I've been trying to work out the process first. Trane works based on a graph, so the progression does not have to be linear. For jazz, for example, this would be something like learning African music first, then spirituals, then blues songs, then new orleans jazz, then basic standards and so on. So I think the historical development of the genre you are trying to learn is a good proxy. Trying to do it based on music theory would be ideal, but probably beyond my capacity.
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I am just coming up with the structure for how to define what music would depend on each other. It's now just a matter of designing the courses and polishing the user experience. So I've been hacking at this and the basic idea does work. I wanted something like you describe, but as far as I know nothing existed. That's pretty much what I've been trying to do with They would apply equally to music with 13 notes per octave. These skills, which are often called "taste", are quite temperament-agnostic. If the bass is playing a pedal tone rather than the root, you might consider including the root more important than it would be otherwise (it's common otherwise to play the third and seventh, since the audience can typically infer the fifth even if it's not in the bassline). As an accompanist your rhythm should be simpler than the drummer's or the soloist's, but should also (or rather, it often sounds good if you do) reflect any temporary motifs they introduce. Doing it right requires listening closely, because you want your dynamics (generally) to mirror the soloist's, you want to anticipate when he'll go slow or take a breath because those are the best times to say something. When you're comping, you want to be sure the listener (and the soloist) know where they are in the song, without getting in the way. Voice-leading refers to the smooth, half- or whole-step movement as the notes of one chord resolve to the notes of the second chord.Empathy is a little-taught skill that's critical to, among other things, teaching, storytelling, and music. And notice how much excellent voice-leading is created by using these rootless chord voicings. This gives you two possible ways to play each ii-V-I progression. Notice that the ii-V-I progression can be played two different ways – starting each chord with either the 7th or 3rd as the lowest note in the chord. Let’s look at an example starting in the key of C major: This “ii-V-I Exercise” is quite simple: you’ll play the root of each chord in your left hand while playing the rootless chord voicing in your right hand. Plus, you’ll get practice playing through ii-V-I voicings in all 12 keys and see the voice-leading qualities of these chords. The really important thing is to learn how to play rootless chord voicings! The exercise below is an excellent way to get these chords under your fingers – fast. Learning how to build rootless chord voicings is only one part of the puzzle. We are now going to replace the 5th with the 13th. Rootless Chord Voicings: Step 4 (Dominant Chords Only)Īt the risk of beating a dead horse, Step 4 is for dominant chords only. But for dominant chords, we’re going to go one step further.
For major and minor chords Step 3 is the last step. Now here’s the important part – for major and minor chords, you’re done. By substituting the root of the chord with the 9th we re making the chord a rootless voicing. This is where the rootless aspect comes in to play. In Step 3, we are going to substitute the root of each of these chords with the 9th. In Step 2 we are going to invert these chords so that the 3rd or 7th is the lowest note of the chord, like so:
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