6 Steps to Big Band Writing with Steven Feifke
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- For all chords written in concert and transposed voicings for 18 piece big band plus the scores and explanations from the tutti passages visit: www.jazzlessonvideos.com/arra...
Steven Feifke, is an American pianist, composer, and orchestrator. An avid and lifelong academic, Feifke’s writing spans many genres and mediums. In 2014, he was commissioned by the 23Arts Initiative to write an arrangement of George Gershwin’s 1924 “Rhapsody In Blue” for jazz big band and concert pianist soloist (Tanya Gabrielian). His big band music has recently been featured by the Malmo Band in Switzerland, and soon his orchestral music will be debuted in August 2019 Next Generation festival in Florence, Italy. Feifke has also written original works for television and film media, and his music can be heard on the hit Netflix TV show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” produced by comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Feifke has been featured as a pianist on a number of records including “Falling Forward” by Ulysses Owens Jr, “Onward” by Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, and “First Things First” by Andrew Gould. His compositions and arrangements are regularly performed by a number of ensembles around the United States, and his original works will soon be heard on his large-ensemble follow up to his first solo album, “Peace In Time” (2015). For all the latest updates and more, join the mailing list here.
Feifke leads several of his own projects of various sizes: a jazz orchestra, a septet, a trio, and a five piece ensemble called “The Songs of Winter Band.” He also co-leads an art music project with vocalist Martina DaSilva, called “With Strings.” Feifke has been named a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition (2011 and 2018), and has performed internationally since 2011. He lives in New York City where he writes out of his home studio, and when he is not touring he can frequently be heard performing at local venues like Smalls Jazz Club, The Django, Mezzrow, the Blue Note, and Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
In 2018, Feifke was the recipient of the Arts Mid-Hudson “Pro’s Meet Pupil’s” grant for his curriculum designed to teach students jazz history through performance. This grant is a part of an ongoing collaboration with The Catskills Jazz Factory. In addition to his grant work, Feifke has also been solo artist in residence at Northern Illionois University, and given masterclasses at Williams College in Western MA, and the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective in New Haven, CT.
Feifke holds a BM in Jazz Studies and a minor in Economics from New York University (2013) and a MM in Jazz Composition from Manhattan School of Music in Jazz Composition (2018). During his time in school, Feifke studied with and learned from two luminaries of composition and orchestration: Gil Goldstein and Jim McNeely.
Chad LB is an international recording artist who has toured globally as a bandleader, and with superstars ranging from Chris Botti to Taylor Swift. He has been a featured soloist with premiere ensembles like the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and was formerly a member of the multi GRAMMY winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Despite his demanding tour schedule, Chad is on faculty as a visiting artist at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for their new Roots, Jazz and American Music degree program.
For all chords written in concert and transposed voicings for 18 piece big band plus the scores and explanations from the tutti passages visit: www.jazzlessonvideos.com/pdf-packages
As someone who learns chiefly through observation this was an absolute dream to watch! Thanks very much for making this ❤
I've got the Nestico book, the Berklee books, the Gary Lindsay book, Inside the Score... But one more wouldn't hurt.
Brookmeyer is the man ;-)
Oh my gosh, same!
Hey Jerrod. Are you willing to share the books? Tks
I've got loads of actual charts, reduced and analysed. I've also got ears. I think I'm good.
thank you chad, very cool!
I think the most important thing writing for big band i have learned doing it a fair bit now is, the most important thing is how the part looks. Is it clean, does the grouping of bars make sense, are the rhythms clear. Are there clear dynamics, consistent use of Sharps or flats. Those are the things that matter a ton that are not apart of the creative proccess. It's more of a craft thing really.
MrHestichs totally! This video and package is about how to actually write/arrange music for 13 horns and rhythm section, not about “copyist” techniques, though Steven does touch on that lightly as well in the package :)
@@ChadLefkowitzBrown Wonderful. I can recommend making videos about the coypist side too. Because there is virtually no information about that. You would have a monopoly for sure on that ;) For my case, I just wrote for the town big band where I play and encouraged all kinds of feedback.
absolutely wrong!!
Care to explain?@@247hdjazz
Love that smile @13:41! Great video Feifdog, very informational and useful for many beginning big band writers.
Thanks! I'm a rock guitarist but I've recently grown to really like the 'sound' of brass in big band/swing/blues/pop music and want to maybe incorporate some elements into my tracks, but I'm completely clueless about arrangement (or even instrument sections). Very enlightening video (despite the fact that I'm not in the target audience of savvy music theorists!).
SO helpful! Thank you so much for making this!!
So good and we learn so much ! Thanks to you all !
Absolutely amazing!!! Just might be one I add to my collection. There's not enough modern big band learning material out there!!
Make chords
write for sax
write for trumpet
write for trombones
voicings
all together now.
This is so great! I love it!
This is so good. I am getting this.
That was a really fascinating insight into a musical form I have no experience with so if it makes sense to me then you've done a really good job. Looking forward to experimenting with some of these techniques now.
Thanks man! this is awesome !
This is so awesome, I am absolutely in love with the vibe of knowledge sharing that is going on these days, thanks so much for this fucking awesome video!!!
Buenisimo !!!! gracias por compartir
Wow, this is a great intro. Thanks a lot!
Great job
amazing
thank you really helful!
Thank You.
Thank you Chad
Why only 8 thousand plus views?!? Thanks much for this video(s)!!! :)
SWEET.
No musical training. I write gospel songs [sing words, work out basic chords and find the key, can write a basic melody line]. As a volunteer dj on a community radio I chose to play the jazz of a hundred years ago (approx) and wondered if I could fit my songs to the big band style so am trying to understand what makes it and get the "feel" of it. Unfortunately can't afford the Au$42 to by your material. Thanks. I will come back again and listen, something might start "sounding in my head" and give me a breakthrough.
Chad, Great video again. Now I know this off topic so my apologies, but what is your mouthpiece set up there? Tip opening, chamber, baffle etc ? I know it's a SYOS piece but was wondering about the spec?
great lead alto
Add a link to the descrition to make it easier to go buy it :)
Saxo Fonista the link is in the description :)
@@ChadLefkowitzBrown Sorry, I reloaded the page and now I can see it. It looked empty before to me. Is this the only video in the course or is there additional video material, I understand there is a PDF too I just want to know if there are more practical examples recorded. Thanks
What's the ladies name playing Bari? When I was in HS we had an associate Jazz band director named Diane DeRosa, she was a great player, she too played Bari. Richie DeRosa is her brother, he played with Jerry Mulligan.
I believe that's Lauren Sevian.
I'm having such a hard time in my Arranging big band class. I need help with Soli line, Brass writing, everything, drops 2's etc. Does this have it all? I have to do an arrangement of a standard for the whole orchestra; 13 horns and rhythm section.
Que tal amigo el curso sólo está en inglés ?
hi, I want big band drumless track impossible get this, can you help me? you have composed tracks vst or something?
try searching "big band drum backing track" on youtube.
Please list all your players #attribution 👏👏📲
Real Chad video.
Hello, beautiful work of what I was looking for, nevertheless, I will ask anyone of you with your permission to help me with arrangement of a song. I needed in a week time for a recording. Horns section: Trombone,sax, trumpet and piano, guitar, drums and bass. I will provide the main chart with chords of the original and a track of the song made before.
raypere43@gmail.com
When I write for sax solis, I use block voicing. It’s easy and I get a good result. I wanna try writing for big band but I always hit that cursed writers block. Combine that with my lack of knowledge of jazz theory and you get a person who has a hard time writes simple sax solis
Block voicing?
@@TomEyeTheSFMguy Basically means that every voice is playing chord tones. Each instrument is playing a different note in the chord.
Here's a video by Adam Neely that explains this exact concept: ( ua-cam.com/video/woXce3P8swM/v-deo.html )
Learn the language of bebop, specifically. Then take it from there.
arranging is one thing...but how about your volume??
Kanye West on the drums tho
The guy with the big beard is snoozing... (12:20)
This is an awesome video, very informative and interesting. But whoever mixed it did a horrible job mixing the voice vs the band. Jesus, you should have seen me jump off my seat.