Welcome to Five Link Friday! This is where I post 5 of my favorite links from the week. I hope you enjoy and please check out the FLF’s from previous weeks. If you have a favorite link please post it in comments! 1) 3 Ways to Reduce Online Noise and Get More Done – a [...]
Welcome to Five Link Friday! This is where I post 5 of my favorite links from the week. I hope you enjoy and please check out the FLF’s from previous weeks. If you have a favorite link please post it in comments! 1) Ten Lessons that the Arts Teach 2) From Alfred Ledger Lines Blog [...]
Imagine walking thru the hallways of a hotel conference center and around every corner is live jazz. Imagine people of all walks of life – students to the jazz greats and everything in between milling the halls, chatting with one another, smiling. Imagine having your choice of clinics to attend – technology, promotion, practicing, etc. [...]
Welcome to Five Link Friday #2. If you missed the first one, you can find it here. 1) “My goal in life is to play better tomorrow then I did today” – James Moody Check out the other videos from that same interview. 2) At the JEN conference last weekend I met a trumpet player [...]
Copyright © 2011 maxplanation.com From Monica Shriver, aka saxymoni, the founder and director of Doublers Collective Doublers Collective is trying to raise some money. Wanna know why? This whole fundraising idea may seem a little out of the ordinary to a lot of people. Truthfully it’s all new to me too. I [...]
Inspired by this post from my fellow doubler Bret Pimentel What instruments do you play in your profession, and in what capacity do you play them? I play piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano, alto, tenor and bari saxophone professionally in jazz combos, big bands, rock bands, chamber ensembles, orchestras, as a soloist, and in [...]
“I don’t know what to play” confesses the student when it’s their turn to solo… I’ve heard this quite often from students throughout my years teaching and giving clinics. It is completely understandable, although I suspect that not knowing what to play (in that moment) is directly proportional to not knowing what to practice at [...]
“To know a scale “inside out” means that you know a scale starting anywhere in the scale, both ascending and descending” – Bergonzi My list of scales: Major Dorian Mixolydian Lydian Lydian Dominant Harmonic Minor Melodic Minor (Ascending) Locrian Locrian #2 Superlocrian (Diminished Whole Tone / Altered) Diminished 8-Toned Dominant / Half Whole Diminished [...]
NEA Survey Finds Jazz Musicians Are Largely Male And Well Educated But Many Are Underpaid And Lack Benefits Respondents Call for Affordable Health Care, Pension Plans, Education Programs and More Philanthropic Support From 2003, but still really interesting. Wonder how much has changed in the last 8 years? Read the rest: NEA News – Jazz [...]
One of my favorite time killers when I worked in the music library in college (aside from intensely studying and rubber band wars) was to play games online. This was before the age of smart phones and Angry Birds. Text Twist was one of my favorites. I love word games and I’m especially adept at [...]
Subtitled: How I Finally Learned, Really Learned, My Diminished Scales. Diminished scales were always that elusive sound that I wanted to try to understand but could never get my head around. Actually that was my problem. I could think my way through it, but I really didn’t have it under my fingers. My brain kept [...]
Tetrachords – the little pieces to a rather large puzzle A couple of years ago, a colleague told me that she teaches major scales to young students using tetrachords. This approach was eye opening for me and prompted me to try teaching this method to my 2nd level class for a couple of years. [...]
I’ve never really considered myself a techie but somehow in the last year or so I became not only that person that colleagues come to for computer advice, but someone who has created and maintains 3 websites, 3 Twitter accounts, spends more time on her iPad that the computer (and not just playing games), and [...]
A few hours ago I returned to Phoenix from the Jazz Education Network (known as JEN) 2nd Annual Conference in New Orleans. I spent 4 days attending clinics starting at 8 AM, watching live music until 1 AM and constantly being surrounded by some of the greatest jazz musicians and educators. I found myself continuously [...]
As I round the last corner of my musical adventure, I realized something quite profound about myself. I’ve done a lot of thinking over the last few weeks (not to mention, you always discover a little bit more about yourself when you have to explain “why you’re here” to everyone you meet.) What I have [...]
