The One Musical Skill I Would Master (feat. Brett Pontecorvo)

08/08/22 • 20 min

Today on the podcast I have a member of my team, Brett Pontecorvo, to the show with me to discuss 2 questions.
And those questions are:
- What is one musical skill you are/were lacking that caused you some trouble in your career?
and
- If you could start over, what would be the one musical skill you would master?
A lot of gold within these hills.
In this episode:
1. What is one musical skill you are/were lacking that caused you some trouble in your career?
2. If you could start over, what would be the one musical skill you would master?
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Quick Win: How to Learn Misty (Jazz Tutorial)

Today, we're talking about the classic ballad, "Misty" by Errol Garner.
We'll take a look at the chords so we can figure out how to most efficiently learn it and find out what harmonic secrets we can discover in the process.
In this episode:
1. Intro
2. Misty - short demo
3. The best way to learn the melody
4. Identifying the key
5. Relating key centers
6. Relating the melody to the chord changes
7. Identifying backdoor dominants
8. Identifying secondary dominants
9. Understanding the form
10. Learning the B section
11. The hardest part to memorize in Misty
12. The last part of the A section
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Quick Win: How to Learn Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise (Jazz Tutorial)

Today, we're talking about the classic minor jazz standard, "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise". We'll take a look at the chords to figure out the most efficient way to learn it as well as some harmonic secrets within the tune that will help us improvise over it.
in this episode:
1. Short demo
2. The best way to learn the melody
3. Identifying the key - The first A section
4. Things you can do with a minor ii-V-I progression
5. A tritone substitution
6. Chord substitution options
7. Associating the melody of the song with the chords
8. The second A section
9. The relative major key
10. Diminished substitution
11. Passing diminished chord
12. The best way to improvise on a dim7 chords
13. The bridge
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Free Guide to learning standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart Way
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