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Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Jazz Piano
JAZZ PIANO II V I PATTERN P1 PDF DOWNLOAD
This video is the critical connection between between your ability to play chord voicings and actually making music by applying them to songs! And it expands from here – there is jazz piano in your […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Scatting Practice!
SYLLABLE DRILLS 1 – GHOST NOTES PDF DOWNLOAD
Join Mich and the Seals in lovely Monterey to practice your scat singing syllable drills! In this video you’ll work on syllables that contain Ghost Notes, and these are a fundamental part of jazz articulation. Without […]
Live from Reno, Nevada
YouTube Playlist: Just One Question
Dena has been leading wonderfully creative jazz trios as a pianist/singer all over Europe, Asia, the US and more for years. In this Just One Question interview she talks about the importance of strong LEADERSHIP on her gigs, and how that must be […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Vocal Groups
JAZZ CHOIR DISSONANCE: FRIEND OR FOE? PDF DOWNLOAD
Do we love dissonance, or tolerate it as a necessary evil? Hopefully we love it but either way, we may not always love rehearsing it. In any case we can learn to fall in love dissonance […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Scatting Practice!
PHRASING MATH DEFINITIONS PDF DOWNLOAD
Phrasing Math is a one-of-kind way to practice your scat singing, helping you to construct your melodic ideas in an organized and communicative way when improvising. The bottom line is: NOTES ALONE do not necessarily create interest. It is […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist:Jazz Piano
PRACTICE WELL, PLAY WELL PDF DOWNLOAD
It is infinitely better to practice SMART, not HARD.
After many years of teaching I have observed countless piano students try their best and spend a ton of time WORKING at the piano, with slow progress and a lot of […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Just One Question
ABOUT SARA GAZAREK
Amongst a community teaming with startlingly gifted young singers, Sara Gazarek stands out as a particularly extravagant artist. Her first two albums introduced her singular sound and vision, steeped in the tradition of jazz but deeply informed by contemporary songwriters […]