Tunes

As many of you know, I use tunes not only to have fun playing over but also to learn about harmony, work on chops and time. Why not, as improvisers we can make up an etude on the spot. And as you get better as an improviser you can make more complex etudes up.

Minority is a tune with tunnel vision. It's the study of one note and meaning depending on what is surrounding it. The 9th and the 13th. In a 2 5 they kind of blend together. And Minority is a great example of this.

Chinese translation for Chinese students

Tony 演奏整首曲子。
如果你不知道旋律，
先學會旋律再來看這支影片。
唯一的Altered chord 在最後一個小節C7alt（C,Ab, E, C）。

2分38秒，Tony 演奏 C key.

轉到不同的調上，可以只打bass你也能聽到整首曲子的全貌，

另外試著轉到不同的調，然後簡單的solo就好。

Chinese translation for Chinese students

把我們上一堂課教的 I minor9 - ii minor9 - V dominant13b9，
這堂課要加上旋律。

旋律都是在最高音聲部，

例如G調：
Gminor9 (旋律是Gmajor音階)- Aminor9 -D13b9 - Gminor9 (旋律是五聲音階)

*把這些東西練好之後，可以再延伸練很多東西，你可以只把一小部分的和聲進行拿出來，做成練習曲練習。

*Tony 演奏：
57秒, G key
1分16秒, F key

Chinese translation for Chinese students.

Tony把這首曲子分成三個部分，這裡我們會學到第一部分。
（先不要去看Leadsheet，直接練練看以下的和聲進行）
以下是這首曲子和聲進行：
Cminor9 - Dminor9 - G13b9 (F Ab B E)
常常見到的和聲進行是
Cminor9 - Dminor9b5 - G13b9
但是這首曲子比較特別，是接到2級minor9，而不是minor9b5 。

*放到不同調裡面練習
*5級和弦用到的是rootless 13 和弦，沒有根音(root)沒有五音(5th)。
*學會這個和聲進行你就已經掌握百分之30的曲子了。


I think we might have done this tune before. But I thought we should revisit it. It's perfect and no matter what level you are at, if you really study this tune a bit, you will learn quite a bit about harmony and what's happening.

It's a tune of 2 5's and that needs to be the basis of our studies. If you can navigate easily through two fives you are really on your way to get through harmony.

This tune is a study of Major two fives, even though it's a minor tune.

Here we go!

The PDF is a transcription of the Barry Harris video. There is also Chinese explanations!
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Chinese translation is for Chinese students.
PDF有寫下到底他們在討論什麼，然後有採譜和中文翻譯。

Here's the Mancini Challenge.

I have to learn these tunes for an online concert Sunday March 19 at 1pm. We're doing Mancini tunes. He writes a lot of slow and beautiful tunes. Here is a PDF of the tunes we are playing. You should check them out and listen to the originals online.

I have a fellow young musician who thought a couple were very corny. I like corny and Mancini's tunes are so beautiful to me.

I'll give a free 1 hour Skype lesson to the first person who posts a video of them playing this etude.