Beyond The Blues Scale with Anton Schwartz at California Jazz Conservatory

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...

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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. Prerequisites: knowledge of major and minor scales and facility on a melodic instrument. Bring your instrument. Saxophonist Anton Schwartz has won critical acclaim for each of five albums released since 1998. He has performed across the country in major venues from the Monterey Jazz Festival to YoshiÕs, SFJAZZ, Blues Alley and the Blue Note in New York. See AntonÕs bio at antonjazz.com.

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