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Beyond The Blues Scale with Anton Schwartz at California Jazz Conservatory
Courtesy of Paul S. Fingerote | Posted on October 17, 2019
Where
California Jazz Conservatory
2087 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA
Map
510-845-5373
When
Sun, November 10, 2019
11:00 AM
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Musicians
Anton Schwartz
saxophone, tenorAbout
Designed for players accustomed to using a single scale for each song they improvise over, this interactive workshop introduces participants to the rich experience of improvising over changing harmony. The leap from jamming over a chord or a blues scale to playing meaningfully over moving chords can be over-whelming; this workshop breaks it down through progressive exercises that allow students to HEAR and FEEL the changes of harmony, paving the way for students to play over chord changes as a natural expression of emotion rather than an intellectual exercise. Participants learn to improvise over a 12-bar blues like a jazz musician, bringing out the unique sound of each part of the blues form, rather than treating it all as an undifferentiated whole...