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Dave Douglas on ear training

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2008-07-12 00:00:00 by Editor in IWasDoingAllRight - Jazz Blog, Jazz Trumpet, Ear Training, Atlanta Jazz
...ear, I saw an announcement from Dave Douglas , mentioning some of the classes he was going to teach at the 2007 Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music . One of the classes, "Ear Training for Improvisers" really piqued my interest. Not only was it an ear training class specifically geared toward improvisation, but it was also...
 
 
 
 
 
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Ear training tool - version 2.0

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2007-11-04 00:00:00 by Editor in IWasDoingAllRight - Jazz Blog, Jazz Trumpet, Ear Training, Atlanta Jazz
...ear training tool. The ear training tool is free to use and contains exercises for intervals, chords, random melodies, call-and-response, jazz improvisation, and more! TRY THE EAR TRAINER! If you'd like to learn more about the importance of ear training, especially for jazz improvisers, please read my Learning To Improvise - Introduction and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Shredding (and playing) by ear

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2007-09-15 00:00:00 by Editor in IWasDoingAllRight - Jazz Blog, Jazz Trumpet, Ear Training, Atlanta Jazz
...ear training. Usually they've read a few of my ear training articles and they might have even tried one of my free online ear training tools . They're eager to improve their ability to play by ear, however they're also frustrated by their early attempts at ear training. The simplest of intervals elude them and chords sounds like a mishmash of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Play by ear - supporting evidence

2007-07-15 00:00:00 by Editor in IWasDoingAllRight - Jazz Blog, Jazz Trumpet, Ear Training, Atlanta Jazz
 
...EAR - SUPPORTING EVIDENCE In my Learning to Improvise series and elsewhere on this site, I've written about the importance of ear training and the ability to play by ear. I firmly believe that the ability to play by ear is an essential skill for quality jazz improvisation. Put simply, if you can't play well by ear you'll never be able to play...
 
 
 
 
 
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Ear training - reader email

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2007-06-10 00:00:00 by Editor in IWasDoingAllRight - Jazz Blog, Jazz Trumpet, Ear Training, Atlanta Jazz
EAR TRAINING - READER EMAIL As I've mentioned before , it wasn't until 2002 that I really started to think about the importance of ear training and the ability to play by ear. I was certainly aware of these concepts, but I hadn't yet realized that they were primarily responsible for my success or failure as an improvising jazz musician. By 2004...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Practice of Ear Training

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2008-07-07 15:13:57 by dave in The Greenleaf Music Blog
...Ear Training for Improvisers," and "Applied Ear Training." About a year ago Rick G at iwasdoingallright.com started asking me to write down my thoughts on ear training. In working on this post I realized why I struggle with that. Ear training is about sound in a given place in a given time. Text can't capture that, though I have tried a...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Practice of Ear Training

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2008-07-07 15:13:57 by dave in The Greenleaf Music Blog
...Ear Training for Improvisers," and "Applied Ear Training." About a year ago Rick G at iwasdoingallright.com started asking me to write down my thoughts on ear training. In working on this post I realized why I struggle with that. Ear training is about sound in a given place in a given time. Text can't capture that, though I have tried a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Boris Talks About Finding Josh Baish's Ear After A Gig

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2008-04-29 14:58:45 by Pete Freedman in DC9 At Night
...earful! Zing Pitchfork 's kinda been all over Japanese noise rock act Boris' new release, Smile , which is released stateside today. And Josh Baish of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton keeps finding himself mentioned in the copy Why Well, the story goes like this: Baish went to a Boris show in Marfa, got into a tussle, had a piece of...
 
 
 
 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES - In Ear Part

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2008-10-17 00:42:00 by S. in S. Box
...Ear Park is a colorful and expansive album, an intimate and personal collection of songs; much of the material that Daniel brought to In Ear Park draws on memories from his childhood, especially those relating to his father, who passed away in 2007 and to whom the album is dedicated (the title track is a nickname for a park in Los Angeles...
 
 
 
 
 
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Boris Recover Dude's Lost Ear, Write Song About It

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2008-04-02 08:00:00 by Matthew Solarski in Pitchfork: News
...ear As Japan's premiere noise-making trio, Boris have certainly wrecked a few ears in their day. But never quite like this Denton, Texas resident Josh Baish journeyed all the way to Marfa to catch Boris play at that city's Ballroom venue on October 18, 2007. During the performance he was assaulted by four men, who broke one of his ribs and...