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How to freely play what you feel and master the sounds of major, minor, dominant, diminished, and extended chords in days, not months.
Why half steps and whole steps are important and how to use them to your advantage to instantly play dozens of chords... ON DEMAND!
relate music to baseball and recognize when chords are returning to "home base" and when they are moving towards other bases. (I know this sounds funny but when you learn to link new concepts to things that are already familiar to you, breakthroughs are guaranteed to happen).
Check out the link for more information
http://www.hearandplay.com/playbyear.html
2. Pianist Marian McPartland, 90, to Release New CD
Jazz pianist Marian McPartland will mark her 90th birthday on March 20th with the release of her first new studio CD in nine years, Twilight World, on Concord Records. The release date of the album is March 11th. It features McPartland�s regular Piano Jazz trio of bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and drummer Glenn Davis.
In addition to the new release, the acclaimed musician continues to host the Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio program for NPR.
And she will also celebrate her birthday week with a series of dates (March 19-23) at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola at Jazz@Lincoln Center in New York. Among the artists paying tribute that week will be Karrin Allison, Regina Carter, Jason Moran, Jeremy Pelt, Ken Peplowski, Chris Potter and many others.
Source: Jeff Tamarkin
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