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Tips and helps for beginners in jazz. Basic stuff for jazz performance. All stuff about Latin Music is in Latin corner.
  Message number: 26105

Thanks Albertan for the info.It was very helpful but pls,could u show me where ALL your files are from beginners to advanced?Thanks...

04/06/2006, by 0 replies
  Message number: 25841

Hi Princeshalom: Sure... you may create many different phrases with pentatonic notes of Ab against that progression: Fm7 Ab Bbm Try it and enjoy it. ...

03/30/2006, by 0 replies
  one more thing...

You mean I should improvise using the Ab pentatonic scale only(throughout a two min. express-urself thing)?...

03/30/2006, by 0 replies
  Message number: 25793

Hi Princeshalom: A nice Impro may be with Ab pentatonic: Ab Bb C Eb F Good luck.

03/29/2006, by 0 replies
  URGENT!!! 911!!! SOS!! Please Help!

Please,Albertan,I've been a member of this site for quite a while(almost a year) but I've not perused your section and I know from a few things I d...

03/29/2006, by 0 replies
  albetan

Muchas gracias por la ayuda Albetan. Entendi perfectamente.

02/17/2006, by 0 replies
  Message number: 24324

Hola Ovejera: Dos notas iguales ligadas con un "arco" equivalen a una sola nota larga.... Así la nota blanca LA que entra en el tiempo 3 de Mac...

02/17/2006, by 0 replies
  albetan

En primer lugar quisera agradecerte mucho, por tus lecciones , eres bastante didactico,YO SOY PRINCIPIANTE. He estado aprendidendo de tus lecciones, que se...

02/17/2006, by 0 replies
  e-exchanging of salsa books

Hi Does any person has the book written by Carlos Campos untitled: "Salsa, Further Adventures In Afro Cuban Music For Piano"? . I do have th...

02/12/2006, by 0 replies
  Message number: 24037

It depends of your natural talent for piano. Please read my old post [b]Musical Perception[/b] clicking on [i]oldest first[/i]...

02/09/2006, by 0 replies
  Albetan

Hey Albetan, IN your opinion, when a begginer starts to learn piano, How many years of training (technique, scales and sight reading) do you thi...

02/04/2006, by 0 replies
  Message number: 23446

FINALE is a complete program and may work as a sequencer, but NOTEPAD is a basic Finale program. NOTEPAD is for free and you may write music by mouse, bu...

01/25/2006, by 0 replies
  Message number: 23437

Enjoy it, Rudy...

01/25/2006, by 0 replies
  tristeza

Hi Prof many thanks for Tristeza Best regards Rudy...

01/25/2006, by 0 replies
  Message number: 23053

Tristeza is a nice samba. Now i am out of home visiting my family in Guatemala. At the end of this month i will return and i will send a transciption to y...

01/12/2006, by 0 replies
  Tristeza

Hi Professor I’m working through your excellent lesson “How to play samba” But I can not find the music sheet of Tristeza Best whishes Rudy...

01/10/2006, by 0 replies
  bolero

Profe, I am finally playing bolero like you once told me to, bass in the left, and right with chord notes and melody.. (I had to practice the rithym in...

01/03/2006, by 0 replies
  Message number: 22674

Gracias por tus palabras, Maus.

01/02/2006, by 0 replies
  increible

me quedé viendo todo lo que la gente te pregunta y la manera que les contestas. que bueno eres Maus...

01/01/2006, by 0 replies
  gracias

albetan, te admiro muchisimo y lo que mas me gusta es que enseñas todo lo que sabes a la gente sin esperar nada a cambio.. eres lo máximo... Maus...

01/01/2006, by 0 replies
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