The fun, for me, is when music really becomes jazz – when you can play with it in the moment, when you can improvise spontaneously, when you can spontaneously play with others. My piece “New Blues” is a perfect example of written out jazzy music – music that sounds improvisational, but that can be read from the page – and it’s one of my biggest selling sheet-music titles, because of that. The fact is, you can make any music sound jazZY by using idiomatic jazz rhythms and extending the harmonies. Hands On Harmony is where it all begins, it makes all the other courses I teach so much more fun and enriching for you.
I created each one of my online courses as a pre-jazz fundamentals course: jazz fundamentals without the jazziness.
When I started building my online school for harp players in 2012, I focused on filling in those fundamentals: basic arrangement structure, musical roles, harmony, rhythm, blues and improv on simple progressions. *FREE Jazzy Harp Stuff & other useful Links at bottom of page!*įor me, jazz is built on those fundamentals, so without them, teaching jazz is like trying to teach cooking to someone without having any ingredients or utensils. That’s why I created the “Hands on Harmony” mini-course, a HARMONY FOUNDATION from a Harpist’s perspective. But every time I took students, I realized they were missing some fundamentals about music. Music, exercises, theory, and technique in the jazz and pop styles of Stevie Wonder, Toots Thielemans, Tom Scott, King Curtis, and others are included in this book/CD pack, along with note-for-note solos for chromatic and marine band harmonica.Harpists have asked me to teach jazz harp for years.
He says of Jazz Harp : It was meant to inspire harmonica players to reach for the same goals as their counterparts on other instruments. He majored in music at Harvard University before working with a variety of jazz and rock bands. That's why some very skilled harp players have said that they doubt that it's possible to play jazz on the harp.
It's hard to play the harp legato because of constant breath shifts, and even harder to accent freely. Jazz requires a smooth, legato attack, and accents in a jazz line can fall on any part of the beat. In addition, the harp itself is not designed in a way that makes jazz easy to play. First, there haven't been many players with the technical ability needed to play modern jazz, and until very recently, most people with that ability were interested exclusively in classical styles. Until recently, jazz has been an idiom largely neglected by harp players, for several reasons.
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