Instructor: Tamir Hendelman Phone: (818)783-3777 |
Course Description
Being a professional jazz artist in today’s world requires a large set of musical skills including composing, arranging, transposing, transcribing, accompanying and of course improvisation. Essential to all these activities is a working understanding of jazz harmony. Jazz harmonic progressions and the numerous ways they can be voiced, rearranged and reharmonized form the backbone to these skills, and this can mostly easily be learned at the keyboard. Graduates of this course will be given the necessary introduction to piano jazz accompaniment, song harmonization, basic song form, a variety of commonly used progressions in 12 keys, Blues forms, song transposition, rhythmic and harmonic transcription abilities and rhythmic approaches to piano voicings. This course addresses both technical issues of fingering, harmony and rhythm as well as individual arranging skills inherent to being a jazz musician. The class will involve playing all the materials on a keyboard- though piano background is not strictly required.Emphasis will be placed on application of the techniques to the voicing, arrangement, and analysis of jazz standards. |