Re: [Harp-L] Questing For a Basic Competency in Jazz



Hi Elizabeth

There is a lot of commonality between jazz tunes. Whenever you look at a
new tune ask yourself "Where have I seen these changes before?".

Cheers,
Daniel


> My current Mt. Everest is these lists of songs that the books
> recommend one learn. So many! I have more or less resigned myself to
> the fact that unlike blues songs, which all share a (nearly) identical
> chord sequence, the way one learns jazz songs is "one at a time".
> SOME are different tunes (heads) over the same set of changes ("I've
> Got Rhythm", for example), but most are unique. I have my eyes open
> for the Unified Theory of Everything Jazz that will tie things
> together. The question that sums it up is, "What does a decent jazz
> player do when a song is called that he/she doesn't know?" What
> SHOULD he or she do?





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