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Originally Posted by bako
I'll give it a whirl, see what happens.
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05-18-2014 01:11 PM
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Long-time lurker here ...
I'm not qualified to speak "from the bandstand" -- just wanted to defend this method because it helped me A LOT -- with respect to chords.
You compress the time between the chords, and it forms a stronger link in your brain.
As for the melody, can't say I really use his method per se ... but I do often divorce a passage from its rhythm while learning the tune in the first place. I'll even just say the note names out loud first, then play them, real slowly.
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Originally Posted by JazzinNY
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
I do something kind of what like Les Wise is advocating for singing. I break the melody into intervals and just practice singing each interval individually with neutral phonemes, then with the actual vowels, then with the actual consonants. Then I break it up into phrases and do the same thing in rhythm. Then I do the whole thing adding breathing patterns.
So, I guess reflecting on that, if I was at the same level with guitar playing as with singing I might find some benefit to this method.
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I received an email from Les Wise. I won't quote the email in full---as that would be wrong---but I can't pull this quote from it, as it is germane to this thread and was the main reason I wrote to him, asking him for his take with the understanding that I would report on it here.
>>>You are right when you suggested to the Jazz forum that I was not actually playing the tune per se… I was demonstrating a way to learn melodies -- FIRST by just programming the NOTES and CONTOUR of the melody—just as you would a lick or groove. <<<<<
That was my take on what he was doing and it seems to be his own as well.Last edited by MarkRhodes; 05-23-2014 at 05:55 PM. Reason: spellling
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Melody is often overlooked as a starting point. Learning the words can also help you learn the melody. Standards are *songs*.
That said, why not just learn them as songs. Seems over complicated.Last edited by christianm77; 05-23-2014 at 05:53 PM.
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Originally Posted by Professor Jones
Mom told me she had a few music lessons as a kid but the teacher told her, "You're just playing what I play by ear. Let's stop wasting your mother's money." I've asked her how she knew to do that but she never has an answer beyond, "I just knew."
I've heard that some horn players compose at a piano because the layout seems to help them....
Coming at this another way, I recall hearing the guitarist Slash (Guns'n'Roses) say that when he was starting out, he memorized all the notes on the guitar. I won't repeat what I actually said when I heard that, but my thinking ran along the following line. "I don't see how anyone could; the pitches repeat in various places."
It's funny that I never thought the piano would be easier to play because of its layout...
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Originally Posted by inwalkedbud
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Originally Posted by MattC
In those cases, "time is of the essence," and this approach makes the most of that time.
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