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Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Scatting Practice!
SYLLABLE DRILLS 1 – GHOST NOTES PDF DOWNLOAD
Join Mich and the Seals in lovely Monterey to practice your scat singing syllable drills! In this video you’ll work on syllables that contain Ghost Notes, and these are a fundamental part of jazz articulation. Without […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Scatting Practice!
BEBOP SCATTING WIZARDRY PDF DOWNLOAD
This is a Scatting Practice! session – please get ready to sing!
If you’re interested to get your bebop content totally up to speed, check out this video. Michele will introduce you to a bebop ‘short code,’ which is a […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Just One Question
ABOUT CLARE WHEELER
Clare Wheeler is a vocalist, composer, vocal and instrumental group arranger, teacher and workshop leader. She grew up in Kenya and studied at Chethams School of Music, as violinist and singer before later changing her course of study to traditional […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Scatting Practice!
JAZZ PIANO MUST-KNOW STARTER VOICING P1 PDF DOWNLOAD
Voicing P1 (Position 1) is a staple – an extremely useful voicing that you will use 1,000’s of times in your future jazz piano playing! Though simple, the voicing in its basic form is only the start […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Scatting Practice!
Introducing: Phrasing Math – a Mich invention! This is the 2nd video in this new series.
Phrasing Math is a specific system of practice to help you develop awareness of phrase structure and build it into your improvisational solos. When improvising there’s a fine […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Just One Question
ABOUT KATE REID
Kate Reid is associate professor of jazz in the Studio Music and Jazz department and Director of Jazz Vocal Performance at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. She directs two of the Frost’s three jazz vocal ensembles Extensions […]
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YouTube Playlist: Lucid Listening
LUCID LISTENING – VOCAL GROUPS 2 PDF DOWNLOAD
Featured Artist: the HiLo’s
The LUCID LISTENING – VOCAL GROUPS 2 PDF DOWNLOAD is designed to be used in conjunction with the video. Please download and feel free to use it yourself, in your class, your ensemble […]
Live from the San Jacinto Mountains, California
YouTube Playlist: Jazz Foundation
ESSENTIAL TERMINOLOGY 1 PDF DOWNLOAD
The ability to effectively communicate with others is quite essential in most everything we do, including music! No matter how you spend your time in music, as singer, player, teacher or writer, it’s important to be on […]
Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Lucid Listening
LUCID LISTENING – VOCAL GROUPS 1 PDF DOWNLOAD
Featured Artist: New York Voices
Lucid Listening is a method designed to facilitate well-organized, meaningful, full-focus listening to music. This is the first in a series of video/Listening Guide pairs which will feature various ensemble types, musical styles and focus on […]