Jazz Learning

How to use sheet music on an iPad? - iPad 12.9" if possible - ForScore app.  Allows DS Al Coda stuff to be navigated so it's forward only. - AirTurn or other BLE page turner (since the lesson, i bought ForScore and am using it with an old iPad.  Building a footswitch from an ESP32) How to learn the notated melody of a song: 1. identify key 2. take a section and find the highest and lowest notes 3. map that range to the fretboard and find the major scale that fits, and is diatonic to the melody 4. look for naturals - does it leave the diatonic pattern? 5. find the scale pattern to use that fits under the fingers.  Watch out for hammer-ons (e.g. trills). How to learn rhythmic patterns - most jazz is eighth note max granularity - break measures into half-note sections and look for 8th note patterns.  There are a total of 2^4 possibilities, minus 1 for all rests, so 15.  Write them out and tap them 4 times before moving on to the next. - find drum pattern books with...

YouTubers I have watched: Jens Larson Daniel Weiss Aimee Nolte Victor Wooten Rick Beato - I find him a little grating but he knows his stuff Multiple references to Barry Harris as a jazz theory teacher.  Common themes - enclosures - upper voice harmony - Vb5 diminished as a V 7 alternate - motif - chord tones on the beat.  I don’t understand this one, pretty sure I hear lots of 9/11/13s and even chromatic passing tones on the beat

  I've realized that I think in terms of the root note as the anchor note for my chord shape choices, and I strongly bias to E or A strings.  If it's an Am7 chord, I'm looking at the fifth fret of E, so I'd make a 5x5555 shape.  I have a limited vocabulary of grips that I go for and they mostly anchor on the E or A string, but sometimes use D to be fancy.  Here's what I have at my fingertips: Example A chords anchored on the 5th fret of E string: A7, Am7, Amaj7, A13, A6/9 Example D chords anchored on the 5th fret of A string: D7, D6, D9, Dm7, Dm7b5, Dmaj7, D7#9, Ddim, D6/9 Example G chords anchored on the 5th fret of D string: D7, D6, Dm7, Dm7b5, Dmaj7 A clear downside of this is that I'm grabbing the root at the bottom and playing it.   I then thought - well, with that anchor note, I could make a shape on either the nut side or the bridge side, and those are CAGED-type shapes.  So: - E string, bridge:  E shape - E string, nut: G shape - A strin...

Did this over Zoom.  Some challenges in getting setup because my SM57 is dying and Zoom has unexpected behavior.  I kept auditioning my setup (guitar through Helix, voice through mic, both into audio interface) and the recorded sound clip on the audio Settings page was terrible.  Turns out that "musicians mode" is not in effect when doing that little recording.  Once I went into an actual call i got it to work. Teacher is Brian Monroney, a great player.  But can he teach?  Looks like he can. I went through my background - punk bands, jazz guitar as a teen, accepted to Cornish, bailed and coming back to it later in life after doing rock and shreddy stuff. We went over the current challenge of four new tunes, and spent time on Afro Blue. Brian: you have two areas to work on.  1) the process of learning arrangements, tunes, and getting vocabulary together. 2) the musical aspect of hearing, improvising, creating lines, and making choices. Drop the root, an...