![]() ![]() Garry wrote back and asked if I wanted piano lessons as well. I also mentioned that I was learning piano. When I first contacted Garry Dial via email, I told him that I was a trumpet player looking for ear training lessons. After a Google search on "Charlie Banacos," I ended up at the official Charlie Banacos website, which led me to Banacos' daughter, who then put me in touch with Garry Dial. I now know that Banacos taught much more than ear training, but since he was always mentioned to me in the context of ear training, he was the first person I thought of when I began my search for an ear training teacher.Ĭharlie Banacos passed away in 2009, but just as Laurie Frink had led me to Nadje Noordhuis, I figured I'd start by contacting one of Banacos' former students. Over the next decade, I'd receive several more ear trainer requests from former students of the legendary jazz educator, Charlie Banacos. I had never heard of Banacos before, but since the cadence sounded like a good idea, I went ahead and added it to the ear trainer. The person explained that a cadence was needed in order to practice an ear training exercise that they had learned from Charlie Banacos. Iwasdoingallright - audio clip Soon, by George GershwinĪfter contacting Nadje Noordhuis for trumpet lessons two and a half years ago, I still needed to find teachers for ear training, jazz improvisation, and piano, in order to achieve my goal of finally getting a comprehensive jazz education.īack in 2007, I received an email asking me to add a starting cadence to my online ear trainer. As I get all of that under my fingers better, I will definitely focus more on musicality, leaving more space, holding some notes longer, etc. Before you listen, I should mention that since I'm still learning how to put everything together, I am intentionally playing a note-heavy solo, in attempt to outline each chord change. In the past, that probably would have derailed the rest of my solo. I also like how I pushed through, after the low C didn't come out as intended. Despite some mistakes and the issues I mentioned above, I do think it demonstrates some of the progress I've made in my lessons with Garry. I wasn't familiar with this tune until yesterday, when it popped up in my daily randomization of Aebersold recordings. In this recording, you'll hear me play "Soon," by George Gershwin (my solo starts on the second "A" section). I'm fairly confident, though, that I'll overcome many of those issues with continued practice. There's also some hesitation in my playing, as I'm trying to incorporate all of the concepts that I've learned. Currently, I'll have an idea and I can't quite execute it, or I find that the idea doesn't quite connect to the next chord change as I intended. The material that I've learned in those lessons has already transformed my playing, but I still need more practice before I can truly pull off a "good" solo. It's been six years since the last time I shared any new recordings, and nearly three years since I started taking jazz improvisation lessons with Garry Dial.
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