NEWS & BLOG

Transcription is really important for musicians for so many reasons. We need to learn how to interpret rhythm, and notating what we here is monumental for growth in that area, especially if we want to be able to improvise over song form. Learning how the masters craft a phrase, approach chords, and develop a solo are essential as well. One of the questions we always need to be asking ourselves is, what do we want to sound like? Analyzing the sound of one of the greats is a wonderful way to learn what it can sound like to improvise over a song form.

Like it or not, while scales, etudes, and excerpts are far from everything, if you can’t nail something thrown at you in an audition in the first few minutes, your window of opportunity for that position may have just been missed. We want our students flinging the doors open and walking in with confidence, demonstrating both mastery and musicianship.

For countless music students, and even many musicians and teachers, jazz band music is a scary thing.  It shouldn’t be. It doesn’t need to be. If you learn music from the ground up, which includes learning how to properly read melodic notation, intervals, rhythms, interpretation of rhythms in different feels and genres, all of your scales, and then all of your chords, and then chord scales, it pretty much will flow naturally and it will seem like you were born for this!