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Have You Met Miss Jones

"Have You Met Miss Jones" - At home today practicing with playing this great standard in various keys. Here's a clip (5 choruses) starting in F and then going up a minor 3rd for each chorus and eventually ending back in F. The bridge is a little tricky since it goes through 3 keys a major 3rd apart.

How to book bands?

For many years now, I've been working with a local arts organization, the Hopkinton Center for the Arts (https://hopartscenter.org/). For the past several years I've organized what we've called the Sunset Jazz Concert series -- 6 to 8 outdoor jazz concerts during the summers on Saturday nights.

Two years ago, through some herculean fund raising, the HCA managed to complete building a new performance/gallery/instruction facility. At this time I added a monthly jam session, now on the 2nd Friday night of each month.

lBGLW-1 Part 3 (A Little Bit Goes A Long Way) 2 Chords

Chinese translation is for Chinese students
選兩個小調和弦
Aminor(A,E,C,G) Bminor(B, F#, D, A)
然後去到Cminor(C,G, Eb, Bb)
試著自己找出tony演奏的這一系列和弦。

保持這樣的Voicing(和聲配置),然後只演奏root和3rd

可以自己創造出不同音的組合,創造出一個groove,
保持固定的Voicing(和聲配置),然後只演奏root和3rd
或是
R, 5th, 2nd, 3rd

R, 2nd, 3rd,
……….
這個練習可以幫助你練習技巧,協調性, 了解更多和聲配置。