Practice Session, by nomorbrass on 05/13/2006, 10:27:22

Good practice today. Albetan's harmonic background exercise on jazz leadsheets for about half an hour. It's harder than I thought, but I'm making progress. I should have it in another week or so. I'd like to be able to play it smoothly at 120 then move on to the next key (Db...yikes!)

Spent fifteen minutes on Levine style scales. Got the c major down and working on F now. Have the ascending version pretty good but still working on the descending.

Spent fifteen minutes or so on Emily. The tempo's slow, bt I've got it now. Went to a music store last night to get a MIDI interface and wandered into the piano to look at the baby grands. Played Emily on a little Yamaha. The salesman came in and thought that I was a piano player. Neat feeling!

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  • 05/13/2006 - Practice Session

    Good practice today. Albetan's harmonic background exercise on jazz leadsheets for about half an hour. It's harder than I thought, but I'm making progress. I should have it in another week or so. I'd like to be able to play it smoothly at 120 then move on to the next key (Db...yikes!) Spent fifteen minutes on Levine style scales. Got the c major down and working on F now. Have the ascending version pretty good but still working on the descending. Spent fifteen minutes or so on Emily. The tempo's slow...

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