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Should they learn it note for note matching articulations. Students often ask what they should do with the solos after transcribing them.

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It will do little to help their ears if they are using software to move the solo note by note and hunt and peck to find that note.

It will certainly improve their ears if they are trying to hear the relationships of pitches in a phrase. 'Jazz educators tell students that transcribing solos will help them learn to improvise. But the payoff is really worth it when you record yourself and play it back and some real creative sound is coming through.

And if you need Amazing SlowDowner, Transcribe, or a 2 speed cassette tape deck to adjust speed and pitch of a solo to get it down, it's a good tool to use.Īll I know it's a lot of hard work and practice time to be able to play jazz piano not matter how much training and lessons are taken by the student. Learning to improvise in jazz piano is an ongoing study. Knowing the Coltrane solo may or may not help much in soloing on a particular tune. But then you get a tune you are unfamiliar with, a tune with a totally different set of changes than Giant Steps. I was lucky to study with him privately for about 1&1/2 years in the 70's when I was at Berklee.īut another thing I have found is you can learn a lot about improvisation by transcribing, but it takes more than that to be able to apply it when and where you need it.įor instance, supposed you transcribed most of Coltrane's solo on Giant Steps and got it down enough to play it in real time along with the record.

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He had a very successful individualistic approach to teach his students how to teach themselves to improvise with his method, which did include transcribing mainly bebop solos.

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I think that's why the late great improv teacher Charlie Banacos had a 2-4 year waiting list, plus the unlimited amount of correspondence students he worked with. Yes, there are numerous techniques and books out about learning how to improvise. But that doesn't mean youll have the first clue as to how Michealangelo conceived of and created his David. You can study the techniques of all the masters. You can learn to chisel marble in a masterful and extremely meticulous way. Its just that so many musicians think it stops there. Scales, harmony, rhythm) before he can 'become one with the musical universe'. Of course the student needs to obtain the tools of he craft (ie. That's what produces the Keith Jarretts of the world. Show me a method that discusses how the performer can center himself in the moment, removing all thought and opening himself to the infinite sounds swirling around the universe and then harness those sounds in an honest and nonjudgemental way. Playing jazz is so much more than knowing how to manipulate and develop musical ideas.

Instead, they turn students into facsimiles of improvisers because what IS NOT being discussed here is the processes that improvisers use to create music-just how to internalize their tools and language. These are good ways of utilizing and maximizing the benefits of transcribing musical language devices.įor me though, the problem with many of these types of approaches is that they don't turn students into improvisers. At one point, he had an offer to study classical composition in Paris with the famed teacher Nadia Boulanger – an opportunity that pleased Keith Jarrett's mother but that Jarrett, already leaning toward jazz, decided to turn down.It all makes sense from an academic study angle. In his early teens, he developed a strong interest in the contemporary jazz scene a Dave Brubeck performance was an early inspiration. In Keuth Jarrett teens, as a student at Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, Jarrett learned jazz and quickly became proficient in it.

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Encouraged especially by his mother, Keith Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute. Keith Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Saint-Saëns, and ending with two of his own compositions.

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He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman. Keith Jarrett possesses absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child. He grew up in suburban Allentown with significant early exposure to music. Keith Jarrett was born Pennsylvania to a mother of Austrian and Hungarian descent and a father of either French or Scotch-Irish descent. If you like this plays you can listen similar transcriptions of Brad Mehldau, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck and Hiromi Uehara, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson.