Teaching Jazz Fundamentals – Tune Memorization 1: Form and the Definitive Recording
J.B. Dyas
A three-decade music education veteran, J.B. Dyas is currently Vice President for Education and Curriculum Development at the The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
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In this segment of a presentation given at Loyola University, New Orleans, educator and bassist J.B. Dyas explains why it’s important to start learning a jazz tune by looking at the root movement and scales used, rather than at the melody. The example used is Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father.”
