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Funky Munky, any tipson mastering the third measure in Blue Third Blues?
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I have one year of experience and am taking classical lessons but want to eventually become a rock musician. I wonder 1) if this book will help me with this? and 2) If one year of experience is enough to start with it? Piano00b, the answer to both questions is yes, but you'll have to work hard. If you're smarter than me and follow Tim Richards' advice to start a new chapter when you get hung up on a tougher tune, you'll probably not find it too discouraging. My experience has been that I flail around with the tougher tunes for a couple of weeks, making no apparent progress and then something just "clicks" and the rest of the time is speeding up and polishing. So far, my improvisations are --what's the diplomatic term?-- yeah, unimpressive. Wombat66: Care to share any improvs on those tunes with us?
Without music life would be a mistake -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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GILBERT WROTE Funky Munky, any tipson mastering the third measure in Blue Third Blues? 1. Time and patience 2. Make sure you can play both hands separately. 3. Play along with the CD, using only one hand at a time. Put the song on repeat. Unfortunately your CD player cant slow the song down, but if you focus on one measure at a time, this is manageable. If it is still too fast turn off the CD and go back to tip 2. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Soon the rhythm will be in your head. 4. Without the CD, play the left hand part of the tricky measure over and over until it is almost automatic. When you are ready to add the right hand, dont try to play all of the notes of the right hand because that may disrupt the flow of your left hand. Add a few notes at a time. Dont forget to start slowly. Tim gives this tip on page 143. 5. Time and patience, GOOD LUCK
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FunkyMunky, great tips - will put these to the test, its a great tune!
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It just dawned upon me over the weekend that the Tim Richards who wrote this book is the same one who lectures at my local university. I met him today as I'll be enrolling on one of his evening courses in the autumn. A very nice and pleasant chap!
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Multi - I'm in awe - could you pm me a lock of TR's hair ??? (although from the photo on the back of my book he doesn't seem to have a great deal of it to spare!) - or failing that at least tell him that his place on the Mount Olympus of Adult Beginner Gods is assured forever and that Dorothy Bradley, Alfred and Denes Ages can just **** @#f. Pastafarian I'd be more than happy to humiliate myself in front of the ABF by posting some recordings but I haven't worked out how to plug my cassette recorder into the computer - I fear I might have to invest in some hard and software before doing so - suggestions and advice gratefully received. Gilbert: blue 3rd blues is fine once you've practiced it. Slowly. Again.And again .. and again....and again etc As Funky Munky says "time and patience"
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Hey, all. I'm really tempted to get the book (have been planning to for a few months after reading all the good press), but I'm talking myself out of it.
Let me share a little about my piano journey: I'm in the third book of the Alfred Adult all-in-one series, and starting out in the Humphries "Piano Handbook". I figure finishing Alfred and working thru PH is all I can handle, maybe for the next year or more. But, I'm really tempted by IBP, because I think it would be a more "passionate", possibly more fun way to go. Would love to get a great foundation in blues and jazz, but don't know if I can take the time. Also, think that staying with what I'm doing, however methodical, gives me a good foundation to go anywhere. Buuut.,,,I'd love to try some music that would be really exciting and fun. And, it sounds like IBP, in spite of the work involved, could be just that.
Anyone in a similar situation, or have experience along these lines to share?
thanks, Stan
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Pastafarian I'd be more than happy to humiliate myself in front of the ABF by posting some recordings I doubt you'll "humiliate" yourself, Wombat66. Just plug the headphone jack from the cassette recorder into the "line in" of your sound card and use Audacity or (my current favourite) Audio Mid Recorder (~$30) to create shareable files. I've just yesterday started lessons based around IBP and my first assignment is to come up with a couple of choruses of improv for "Jump Shuffle" and then to transpose it to F, G, Bb and Eb. It's interesting to have a teacher after so much self-instruction.
Without music life would be a mistake -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hi Found this thread today and just read through it. Fun to see that we all go through the same problems. I've been using IBP piano for a couple of years myself now and also Mark Harrison Blues Piano. I bought a book called Improve your Piano Playing I think it was called, and the most useful I found from that was to practice slowly first. I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but I find doing each hands seperatly and the togheter slowly, so I'm sure I'm not "programming" my hands/brain wrong and then speed up. Also after you learned a song, slow it down sometimes. Makes it easier to find mistakes. Anyways great thread and I just wanted to kick some life into the thread again. Also thanks to Tim Richards IBP 2 in near future? Cheers
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