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Practical Practicing for Jazz Musicians

Practical Practicing for Jazz Musicians LIVE SESSIONS Every Wednesday starting October 27th, 2021 Oct. 27 – Dec. 15, 2021 Wednesday’s: 5:00pm – 6:30pm ET Note, the US goes on Daylight Savings Time on November 7, which may impact international...

Choosing from Possibilities

Teacher: Pat Harbison With this one I will go through one commonly played tune in each session. We will look at form, key scheme, etc. and at the harmony. We will discuss possible and common variations, alterations, and substitutions. We will consider which scale...

Hear it, Sing it, Play it, Own it!

Teacher Pat Harbison uses imitation, humor, and encouragement to help you play and analyze the vocabulary that makes up the language of jazz improvisation. Much of jazz pedagogy focuses on the application of jazz theory and memorization of patterns and sequences in...

Harbison on Caruso

Teacher: Pat Harbison Carmine Caruso was a famous and legendarily effective New York based music teacher in the 20th century. His pedagogy is frequently misunderstood and misapplied. Harbison studied with Caruso in his New York City studio for three years in the late...

Improvising Without Fear!

Teachers: Pat Harbison and Meghan Pund Many people are excellent musicians when reading music or interpreting written compositions but are befuddled or terrified by the idea of improvisation.This will be an class (and maybe a self help group) for skilled music readers...
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