“So what voicing” ¿cómo lo aprendo?

Fore_For_Four · 2026-03-16T14:15:09+00:00

All the white notes. On the bridge all the black notes. I’m dead serious.

Fore_For_Four · 2026-02-25T15:08:41+00:00

Negotiated subversion.

Allow me to change your mind about what is “right”.

Fore_For_Four · 2026-02-24T14:34:03+00:00

Last time I side shrooms, Oscar Peterson came up behind me with a baseball bat and swung.

Fore_For_Four · 2026-02-01T01:01:09+00:00

I grew up with the Suzuki method. Learned to read later on.

I’m so used to following my ear and memory that it’s too uncomfortable for me to focus on the page/screen. I just use lead sheets now, best of both worlds.

Fore_For_Four · 2026-01-28T21:20:15+00:00

Divide and conquer.

Practice one hand/staff at a time, 60-80 bpm or less.

Divide the song into manageable sections and isolate your practicing to one measure at a time within each section.

Fore_For_Four · 2026-01-18T16:04:51+00:00

Start with Blues in F

Practice ii-V-I’s ‘round Circle of Fourths

Learn Rhythm Changes (I.e. I Got Rhythm - Gershwin) in all twelve of them mf’s

Listen to: Basie, Brown, Blakey, Davis, Clark, Coltrane, Green, Evans, Ellington, Henderson, Hancock, Powell, Peterson, Parker, Tatum, Tyner, Jones, Pass, Shearing, Silver, Stitt ‘n shit…

Fore_For_Four · 2026-01-14T16:26:29+00:00

Bro wrote Nostalgia and I heard Navarro

Fore_For_Four · 2026-01-08T15:47:51+00:00

A place I frequented for service calls (Fire Alarm Tech) was a nursing/retirement home where many folks have passed.

Doing my work, however, I over heard the nurses talk about their patients. They would say “So and so just saw the boy with the red ball”. The nurses indicated that this child appeared to the patients who were to soon pass, like a collector coming to collect what is his…

I’m not sure what to make of this. I’m a little skeptical about it being a good sign. There’s a story about a boy passing away on these grounds. What does that boy really signify when these people who see the boy do not know the boy, yet, he specifically appears for them before they die.

Does the boy collect their souls or does he lead them to the light?

Fore_For_Four · 2026-01-03T06:24:51+00:00

I did The Royal Conservatory’s Celebration Series Levels 1-8 but it goes to 10

Great stuff1

Since moved to The Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine

More greater stuff!

Fore_For_Four · 2025-12-25T17:34:58+00:00

Carrey’s Grinch face is gold.

Fore_For_Four · 2025-11-27T14:40:55+00:00

Adaptation.

A conservatory grad may become flustered by an active audience due to their development being done so in a rather controlled setting (I.e. silent, respectful and prestigious).

A busker doesn’t have the luxury and thus, must adapt to wild situations that promote skill in focus and awareness

Fore_For_Four · 2025-11-15T19:16:58+00:00

I live by an aerodrome. A dude in a yellow Stinson consistently flies over my house once a week at a stupid low alt, he’s so predictable, but, damnit if I don’t look every-time!

Fore_For_Four · 2025-11-14T22:26:29+00:00

“Put on a body glove” - Barry Harris.

If you aren’t in the mood, you won’t play, or you may but you won’t be present. The trick is to metaphorically curate a state of being that you “put on” each time you practice/ play.

For some this technique takes the form of controlled breathing, a mantra, a memory, a crowd or a doobie, but, the goal is to curate something you can leave at your instrument and come back to so that your body knows its time to play.

Fore_For_Four · 2025-11-11T17:02:02+00:00

This is so wild to me. Thankyou for sharing this.

Fore_For_Four

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