At some point you may want to create your own lead sheets. Especially if you’re doing your own reharmonization and your notation gets crowded out on your standard lead sheet – or if you’re trying to harmonize a song by ear. (I have some interesting – at least to...
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Everybody wants to go to heaven…
David Haynes, , Misc, 0
“…but nobody wants to die.” It’s a lyric (of course). Apparently from a country music song written by Marty Dobson and Jim Collins. I refer to it often. In the pertinent variant it goes something like, “Everybody wants to play piano but nobody wants to practice.” A familiar notion to...
What I learned from Dot Songs – part 2
David Haynes, , Misc, 0
The other thing I learned from trying to play from Suds’ dot songs is that I (and maybe you) tend to get lazy about working through voicing choices. At some point you’ll find yourself familiar enough with chords in certain general places on the keyboard that you’ll just voice...
Who owns music-making?
David Haynes, , Misc, 0
I had a short email conversation the other day with Ted Gioia, the author of numerous fascinating books on the history of jazz and the origins of songs. You can order his books and read his articles here (and you should). My lament was that adult amateurs were largely ignored by...
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