nino_rajacic is a classically trained musician.. he has knowledge about jazz and wants to increase his skills on orchestration, complex harmony and so on.
in this lesson we will start with basic harmonic and scalar concepts but in a jazz perspective... nowadays most musicians learn harmony, counterpoint and theory at college, later on in life they either take it too serious or forget about it at all... my focus on today's jazz is about balance, finding your self in lost situations.. in order to accomplish this, we need to feel lost... for example... playing GIANT STEPS at 200 without knowing the tune but with a lead sheet as a reference... it's like trying to read a map while in the freeway.. you dont have too much time, but for sure you can get something out of it.... although this is a performance issue... I have done exercises myself about "composing motifs" over lead sheets such as giant steps... it is almost the same challenge as performing it...
nino_rajacic will finish an assignment that i posted under "lesson with smarty" that smarty never submitted... we will start from there..
