093: About Frequencies in Music, Part Two
07/26/18 • 7 min
In the second instalment of our series on frequencies in music, we discuss the two major reasons why frequencies matter, and how sound can be understood, defined, and manipulated in terms of its frequencies.
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Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 093
Links and Resources
• About Frequencies in Music, Part One
• Interview with Jeremy Fisher
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In the second instalment of our series on frequencies in music, we discuss the two major reasons why frequencies matter, and how sound can be understood, defined, and manipulated in terms of its frequencies.
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Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 093
Links and Resources
• About Frequencies in Music, Part One
• Interview with Jeremy Fisher
Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it!
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092: Getting Under the Hood, with Leila Viss (88 Piano Keys)
On the show today we're joined by Leila Viss, author of the 88PianoKeys.me blog and the book “The iPad Piano Studio”. In her own piano studio Leila specialises in helping students be more creative on keyboard and together with Bradley Sowash at 88 Creative Keys she runs workshops and provides online training to help other teachers to empower their students creatively.
As you'll hear in this episode, Leila knows from personal experience what it's like to not feel creative as a musician, and to learn it step-by-step in a practical way and it was fascinating to hear how she did this and how she now helps others to do the same.
In this conversation Leila shares:
• Three pivotal experiences that opened up a route for her to become more creative
• Why it might be okay to steal from musicians you admire - and what it means to "steal like an artist"
• One simple exercise she uses with her students to help them start being creative on the keyboard
We find Leila really inspiring in how she approaches playing and teaching music, and we think you're going to enjoy hearing the specific ways as well as the overall mindset that have enabled her and her students to transform from on-page sheet music readers into free and creative musicians.
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Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 092
Links and Resources
• How a classically trained pianist learned to improvise
• Steal Like An Artist, by Austin Kleon
• The Practice Revolution, by Philip Johnston
• About the I, IV, V, and vi Chords
• About Scales and Their Flavours
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094: Inside the Jazz Mind, with Marshall McDonald (Count Basie Orchestra)
Today we have the distinct pleasure to talk with someone who we think it’s fair to say is one of the top jazz musicians in the world today and who has played with and learned from some of the true masters: Marshall McDonald, who has been playing for 20 years with the legendary Count Basie Orchestra, and currently plays lead alto sax in that band. He’s also performed in the Duke Ellington Orchestra and with Lionel Hampton and Paquito D’Rivera.
We'll admit that we were a bit nervous going into this interview. Marshall has had an amazingly impressive career, and although we're jazz fans we're not jazz musicians ourselves - and we know that jazz cats often have an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz records, jazz history and the jazz musicians behind it all. And Marshall's certainly no exception! But fortunately he is also the most kind and humble guy and it was an absolute pleasure to chat with him - and he certainly didn't hold back on the amazing stories and insights on teaching and learning jazz - and music in general.
One might assume that a world-leading alto sax player would talk mostly about the specifics of jazz and sax - but as you’ll hear, Marshall’s got a breadth of wisdom and insight that cuts right across music itself. There is a ton in here for any musician to learn from.
In this conversation we talk about:
• Talent, and how he and the amazing musicians he's worked with and learned from think about talent
• We ask him about learning to improvise, and the balance of preparation versus spontaneity to improvise in a way that moves the listener
• And he helps Christopher shrug off a grudge he's been harbouring for 20 years and realise some advice that he got back then was actually pretty solid!
Marshall’s a natural story-teller, so this is a really fantastic interview - and we take no credit for that! He’s also a skillful educator, offering private lessons online and giving masterclasses, so he really knows how to explain what he does. Between the stories and the insights, we know you’re going to love this one.
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Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 094
Links and Resources
• Study with Marshall McDonald - all levels of saxophones, clarinet, and flute
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