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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

Who should attend?

  • All genres
  • All ages
  • All instruments (Limit 2 pianists)
  • Listeners who wish to increase their understanding of the music

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?

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

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

Questions?


e-mail Chuck





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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
"The heart has a thousand strings that can only be played with love." Hafiz
"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
"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Anderson
"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)
"At a reverent performance of music, God is always at hand with his gracious presence."
- Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fifth Evangelist.

“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
“GOOD teachers are costly; BAD teachers cost even more.”