CHECKPOINT: end of course and listening suggestions
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Tim RichardsTim Richards recaps what you've covered - major, minor and dominant seventh chords and blues harmony - and shares jazz listening suggestions to train your ear.
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Course Wrap-Up: Part One
Congratulations on reaching the end of Part One of this course! Here's a summary of what you've learned:
Key Chords
- You've mastered the basic chords in any key:
- 1, 4, and 5 chords
Chord Types
- You've also explored:
- Major chords
- Minor chords
- Dominant seventh chords
Blues Harmony
- We examined how blues harmony features dominant chords on all three chords:
- Different voicings include:
- Two-note voicings (e.g., shells or tritones)
- Three-note rootless voicings
- Different voicings include:
Listening Section
For Part Three of the course, the listening section includes a variety of blues tunes that use the basic I, IV, and V chords. Notable jazz musicians who have incorporated these chords into their blues include:
- Thelonious Monk
- Horace Silver
- John Coltrane
- McCoy Tyner
Non-Blues Tunes
You'll also find a list of non-blues tunes, such as:
- Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island"
- Abdullah Ibrahim's "Mannenberg"
Both of these well-known tunes only utilize three chords in the 1, 4, and 5 progression.
Importance of Listening
It's crucial to listen as much as you can. Otherwise, when you play and improvise in a jazz idiom, you may sound like you have a foreign accent.
Keep practicing, and happy listening!
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Critically acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Tim Richards is one of Britain’s most experienced jazz educators, teaching piano privately for over 30 years, as well as at Morley College, Goldsmiths College, the University of Surrey, Premises Studios and other venues in the UK and abroad. He has produced numerous titles for Schott Music, including the best-selling two-volume Exploring Jazz Piano, Blues, Boogie & Gospel Collection and the acclaimed Improvising Blues Piano. He is also co-author, with John Crawford, of Exploring Latin Piano and Brazilian Piano Collection.
More recently Schott have published Jazz, Latin & Modern Collection (15 pieces for solo piano), comprising Tim Richards originals alongside pieces by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and the two volume set Beginning Jazz Piano (now a two-part MusicGurus course).
“The real joy of Tim’s music… is that it is both hugely educational but also such great fun to play. Anyone with the slightest interest in learning to play or teach jazz piano should really acquire a set of Tim’s books.” PianoDao
As a performer Tim has been a presence on the UK jazz scene since the 1980s, also playing the blues with UK and US legends such as Otis Grand, Earl Green, Dana Gillespie, Larry Garner, Joe Louis Walker and Mojo Buford. He has released over a dozen albums as a leader (featuring many of London’s best jazz musicians including Pete King, Gilad Atzmon, Tony Kofi, Jason Yarde, Seb Rochford, Ed Jones, Dick Pearce and many others), and toured all over Europe with line-ups ranging from duo to nine-piece. His latest recording, the album ‘Telegraph Hill’ by the six-piece Hextet, was described in The Observer as "A true joy from beginning to end".
More info can be found on his website www.timrichards.ndo.co.uk
