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YouTube Playlist: Just One Question
ABOUT KATE REID
Kate Reid is associate professor of jazz in the Studio Music and Jazz department and Director of Jazz Vocal Performance at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. She directs two of the Frost’s three jazz vocal ensembles Extensions […]
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YouTube Playlist: Lucid Listening
LUCID LISTENING – VOCAL GROUPS 2 PDF DOWNLOAD
Featured Artist: the HiLo’s
The LUCID LISTENING – VOCAL GROUPS 2 PDF DOWNLOAD is designed to be used in conjunction with the video. Please download and feel free to use it yourself, in your class, your ensemble […]
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YouTube Playlist: Jazz Foundation
ESSENTIAL TERMINOLOGY 1 PDF DOWNLOAD
The ability to effectively communicate with others is quite essential in most everything we do, including music! No matter how you spend your time in music, as singer, player, teacher or writer, it’s important to be on […]
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YouTube Playlist: Lucid Listening
LUCID LISTENING – VOCAL GROUPS 1 PDF DOWNLOAD
Featured Artist: New York Voices
Lucid Listening is a method designed to facilitate well-organized, meaningful, full-focus listening to music. This is the first in a series of video/Listening Guide pairs which will feature various ensemble types, musical styles and focus on […]
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Playlist: Scatting Practice!
The first in a new Scatting Practice! series: Phrasing Math! Mich first created the idea of Phrasing Math for use with her online students in Japan to help them create shape and form in their scat solos, and it has been working well. In […]
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YouTube Playlist: Jazz Foundation
Any groove, whether pop, jazz or other is built from two major components:
THE HEARTBEAT. The most basic pulse. The steady beat. The drive that makes you tap your foot.
THE SUBDIVISION. The rhythmic subdivisions between the heartbeat, usually occurring as straight […]
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YouTube Playlist: Scatting Practice!
Here’s a chance to work on your skills with MichMusic Now Scatting Practice! (YouTube Playlist) sessions. Scatting Practice! videos provide an opportunity to get in some practice time in a fun way, as well offering tips.
You’ll be singing with ScatAbility, the iOS scat singing app […]
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YouTube Playlist: Scatting Practice!
Here’s a chance to work on your skills with MichMusic Now Scatting Practice! (YouTube Playlist) sessions. Scatting Practice! videos provide an opportunity to get in some practice time in a fun way, as well offering tips. This session focuses on awareness of jazz articulation (long […]
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YouTube Playlist: Just One Question
For the past 30 years Phil Mattson has stood out as one of the most influential conductors and music educators in vocal jazz and choral music. When I was 17 Phil became my first mentor. He has inspired and shaped me ever […]