Jazz Soloing Workshops
Have you bought any of the 1000’s of jazz books, tapes, CD’s, videotapes or attended one of the many jazz seminars and still can’t solo? |
Workshop Description
- Beginning Improvisation
- Designed for musicians starting to play jazz at the beginning level, emerging professionals, and music educators
- Proven learning concept developed by Chuck
- A single, two, three, or four week series
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Who should attend?
- All genres
- All ages
- All instruments (Limit 2 pianists)
- Listeners who wish to increase their understanding of the music
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What to expect:
- Street-smart, useful, hands-on jazz soloing instruction alongside other musicians
- Weekly accompaniment material provided for practice
- How does one get into a tune?
- How to end the tune?
- How do you make an interesting arrangement of your solo?
- What about interludes and vamps?
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Caveats:
- Must read music at a rudimentary level
- Must commit to some practice during the week between sessions
- If not a Single Workshop, it is ateo, three, or four week commitment
- No active participants after the first workshop night if a series
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Fees:
- No charge to those that pre-register if sponsored by an organization such as the Atlanta Federation of Musicians
- No active participants after the first workshop night if a series
- Listeners always welcome
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Questions?
e-mail Chuck
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Sample Workshop Series
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
June 1, 2010 -
June featured member of the Greater Marietta Music Teachers Association
May 10, 2010
- Chuck
launches his Piano Studio
at Southern Keyboards.
Click for info.
May 1, 2010 -
Chuck releases his latest CD "I Take Requests". Click to Listen
KEY PERFORMANCES
March 13, 2010 - Chuck concert at Southern Keyboards, Marietta, GA 7pm for prospective piano students
November 9, 2008 - Chuck inducted as an International Steinway Artist
October 12, 2008 - Chuck plays the Georgia State University Jazz Pianists Summit
QUOTES
"Information without inspiration is useless." - Dwight Keith
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"The heart has a thousand strings that can only be played with love." Hafiz
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"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable than current politicians." - President Harry Truman
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"Where words fail, music speaks." -
Hans Christian Anderson
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"Music touches places
in the soul that words will never reach" |
"Teaching is not a science; it is an art. If teaching were a science there would be a best way of teaching and everyone would have to teach like that. Since teaching is not a science, there is great latitude and much possibility for personal differences."
- From The Goals of Mathematical Education by George Polya (circa 1969)
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"At a reverent performance of music, God is always at hand with his gracious presence."
- Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fifth Evangelist.
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“I
would teach children music, physics, and philosophy: but most
importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are
the keys of learning.”
- Plato |
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“GOOD teachers are costly; BAD teachers cost even more.” |
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