Ear Training

Just thought I'd pass this along!

I played jazz at a funeral today. And I was late because someone died on the way to the gig. Right on the street, and I got stuck behind the ambulance that was in the middle of the road. I couldn't back up because of the line of cars behind me.

There was this dead guy and then the dead guy at the funeral. This was weird. What pissed me off was that the ambulance blocked the street even after everyone knew that the guy was dead. They all sat there looking at him and talking... and of course looking at the growing line of cars.

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Help me name tunes or parts of tunes that are Dorian in sound.

Ha ha, I got the first one. 'So What'.

Oh, here's another. The first to chords of Recordame.

Add on to this list please!

I have a series on modes inside the subscription part of the site. One of the subscribers asked for names of tunes in different modes. So I thought I'd ask all you guys.

So Phrygian, name some tunes that are Phrygian. You can also name sections of tunes that are Phrygian.

There are a few of you using the annotations. Subscribers will see it on each page. They can keep notes and then go there account page and see an 'annotations' tab. There they can read there annotations and then click to go back to the article.

Annotations are really helpful!

Joe takes a strange progression and resolved it because of the melody!

How about as an exercise, one of the subscribers transcribe the progression!

They great thing about tunes is that they're automatic etudes! I'm doing a hard etude with the tune Cherokee. I plan on writing it out and posting it here.

Tonight I decided to take a tune that's a little uncomfortable for me and work on it. The tune is 'I Should Care'. For me it lays awkward on the instrument. I think tunes in F work the best on the instrument. They have the biggest range!

'I Should Care' is in C and it always gives me trouble. If you play it 'up' and octave it doesn't seem to lay well, especially when you're playing Chords and the melody.

Ahmad Jamal and Gary Burton play a tune called "One", not the one from "A Chorus Line."
This is from the early eighties at a foreign jazz festival. I'm not sure if it's Montreux. This tune has an African flavor to it. I have the LP from which this performance is taken. Jamal and Burton have never worked together before and, to my knowledge hadn't worked together since.

Guess how old I am!