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Offline ronpaul

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similar forum for standards and jazz
on: August 10, 2012, 10:19:51 AM
This site is interesting for classical music.

Can anyone suggest popular standards and Jazz pices to play or a similar site for these

Offline indianajo

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Re: similar forum for standards and jazz
Reply #1 on: August 12, 2012, 02:23:47 PM
For standards you need a fake book. These violated copyright when printed so they weren't available in stores. I found mine at a flea market and would love something similar for the 1935-1955 era.  It has a cover price of $95 and no publisher data.  Probably sold by word of mouth among musicians back when. It has no accompanyment, just the chords. 
I'm having fun playing stuff that sounds like jazz out of the "47 Modern & Jazz Piano Pieces" arranged by Brimhall, Peterson and Progris, Hansen House D094i. Of course if it worked out note by note it is not jazz, but I like the sound.  In my 6th decade I'm doing something about trying to learn to play pop music by ear, and am beginning to get the hang of it.  I asked my piano teacher to help me work out a pop song at age 13 but she was very dismissive of that sort of thing.  Chord theory from the books helped nothing, except it gives me  a little background for trying to understand what I here now as I try to work things out.
The major piano forum is pianoworld.com, but they require the password to your retirement account before they will talk to you, so I leave that sort of public exposure to the young and poor. 
 

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