Jazz Composing (20)
Online Interactive Resources for learning arranging
Hi All - I've been a member here for a few years, not especially active, but I drop by from time to time. (I'm not a professional musician, this is my soundcloud page.) I studied big band arranging for years, but never having become a professional mu
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Two Chord Wonder
Hi Everyone! Happy (please, please, please) 2022!
I explore two areas quite a lot: tunes with ridiculouly long chord progression - like 36 bars - the goal being to do it "secretly". To not attract attention to that,
Or: super short chord progressions -
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jazz harmony book
Can anybody recommend me jazz harmony book for beginners? I am trained classical musician, i've mastered classical harmony at the university so it does not have to be ,,very'' basic with learning the music theory and stuff. Ihave listed a couple and
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Swing From The Past
Four faces of swing.
Made with Vsampler, Sample Tank, and Stylus RMX.
Revisited in October 2016 replacing some parts with
Omnisphere 2 and Samplemodeling.
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imitating Charlie Rouse
I had fun doing this. Maybe you'll have fun listening to it.
Bye-Ya( excerpt) from Thelonious Monk's album Monk's Dream.
Left channel - Charlie Rouse.
Right channel - me on Tenor Sax from samplemodeling
with USB MIDI Breath a
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Should I maintain a good voice independence when writing horn parts for small jazz ensemble?
When harmonizing a melody for simple jazz tunes (i.e: standards), should I still apply common "rules" for voice independence, or will it just clutter up the main melody. Is for example paralell fifths similar motion still to be mostly avoided, or wou
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New piece - feedback appreciated
Hi
This is my first Composers' Forum post.
I've been doing electronic music for some years, but am now trying to develop my composing skills more in the jazz field so here's a recent piano tune.
I'd like to evolve it a bit and could do with some fee
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16 piece chart - "Thursday"
I'd like to see a lot more in here.
In the meantime, here's an original for a 16 piece jazz group called "Thursday" (because It was written on a Thursday).
If anyone wants the score, I'll be happy to post it.
Cheers
Paul "Taz" Bartlett
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"Darn That Dream" - member recording
Hi,
I have posted another solo Jazz piano tune here and at my website. I would be glad to answer questions from anyone whether you yourself are a Jazz player or if you play a different genre. I also welcome any kind of critique, positive or negative.
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Solo Jazz Piano interpretation of "You Must Believe In Spring"
This is my first post here and I am curious as to what the acceptance of Jazz is on this site. The recording that I am posting is my version of "You Must Believe In Spring" by Michel Legrand. My biggest influence in music is Bill Evans. By listening
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Poor, lonely Jazz category. And we owe so much to Jazz: every day of our lives.
Classical musicians usually know practically nothing about jazz theory. When they do, they tend to throw a wet blanket over it and send it through some sort of blender: a violins and trap-set Osterizer. I might have done this inadvertantly myself, by
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