@@sorenballegaardmusic I’m trying to stay away from sheet music and learn to play tunes by ear. And then transpose that in to other keys. So the next time a singer says “can we play that tune in another key?” I’m not panicking trying to transpose it. I think it’s a fantastic skill all musicians should work on. How would you practice this?
I actually have a video on this, made for how to transpose melody. ua-cam.com/video/ylODzEscmWc/v-deo.html For transposing chords you need to dig down in the theory part of music. Since it is a rather big chunk of information i have not covered this in a video. Three fast steps: Learn the major scale of a common tube like take the a train - D major for tenor Learn the steps and chords of the scales. Analyse the tune in step numbers and transpose the tune in numbers one whole step up to fix Emajor. This is the extreme fast version........ Let me know if this makes any sense :)
@@BassNSax628 In most standards it is the chord of the 2nd last bar. For example Take the A-train is in D major. The chord in the 2nd last bar - where the melody ends - that is for 95% of tunes the root chord and the key. Then you can look at the # and b in the melody, but that is not always a great guide. Where the melody ends on the last note, what sounds like the end is mostly the key center of the melody. Understandable or wierd? - let me know :)
great ideas! Mostly i will do some warmup/improv with ireal pro on the first and last 5-10 minutes of my practice sessions and i will try out some of your ideas :) also to play without backing is nice to try out.
I almost never play with backing, but uses metronome. Always start with running a few arpeggios or some small pattern, then directly add to the music. Let me know if you need any help, advice or material :)
Music and humour together makes it so easy to learn!
Always have fun, else it is no fun and life is dull.
Both practice and playing should be fun and inspiring.
We see each other at the lesson :)
I often use Stanley Turrentine as inspiration. He sounds good with jazz, blues, soul , pop , he can do it all.
Hi Mark, Stanley Turrentine is a player I did not listen to a lot...
What can you recommend?
What is your favorite tune/solo of his?
@@sorenballegaardmusic Sunday in New York is one of my favourites .
Always inspirational
Thank you Mark, what idea(s) are you maybe thinking of using?
@@sorenballegaardmusic I’m trying to stay away from sheet music and learn to play tunes by ear. And then transpose that in to other keys. So the next time a singer says “can we play that tune in another key?” I’m not panicking trying to transpose it. I think it’s a fantastic skill all musicians should work on. How would you practice this?
I actually have a video on this, made for how to transpose melody. ua-cam.com/video/ylODzEscmWc/v-deo.html
For transposing chords you need to dig down in the theory part of music.
Since it is a rather big chunk of information i have not covered this in a video.
Three fast steps:
Learn the major scale of a common tube like take the a train - D major for tenor
Learn the steps and chords of the scales.
Analyse the tune in step numbers and transpose the tune in numbers one whole step up to fix Emajor.
This is the extreme fast version........
Let me know if this makes any sense :)
@@sorenballegaardmusic how do work out the key of a tune?
@@BassNSax628 In most standards it is the chord of the 2nd last bar. For example Take the A-train is in D major.
The chord in the 2nd last bar - where the melody ends - that is for 95% of tunes the root chord and the key.
Then you can look at the # and b in the melody, but that is not always a great guide.
Where the melody ends on the last note, what sounds like the end is mostly the key center of the melody.
Understandable or wierd? - let me know :)
great ideas! Mostly i will do some warmup/improv with ireal pro on the first and last 5-10 minutes of my practice sessions and i will try out some of your ideas :) also to play without backing is nice to try out.
I almost never play with backing, but uses metronome. Always start with running a few arpeggios or some small pattern, then directly add to the music.
Let me know if you need any help, advice or material :)
Thans. Very useful...Jump into the pool to learn how to swim?
And that is a super big pool of music - if you need any advise let me know :)
All the best