Education
Are Chord Scales the Answer?
22/01/09 09:12
Whether chord scales are the answer depends of course on the question. First, two quotes which sum up my stance towards jazz and jazz education. The first is from composer Pierre Schaffer: 'music in terms of sound, not notes, harmonies, chords.' The second, from educator John Paynter, 'the first step must be the understanding of the medium and its potential. We can only discover this through creative experiment.'
Somewhat exhausted by a day’s sofa sitting enthusing for America’s new President, I’m taking this opportunity to avoid blogging and add ‘Are Chord Scales the Answer’, another of my earlier articles on jazz to this website.
First presented at the April 2000 Jazz Education Conference in Leeds, the article’s appearance in Jazz Changes, a magazine I co-edited for some years, attracted the sub-heading ‘Graham Collier’s attempt to disturb the people of middle England’. By which I meant not so much the attendees at the conference – although some of them did indeed need disturbing – but all those in jazz to whom playing safe seems to be a way of life.
To read more go to Chord Scales in Writings.
Somewhat exhausted by a day’s sofa sitting enthusing for America’s new President, I’m taking this opportunity to avoid blogging and add ‘Are Chord Scales the Answer’, another of my earlier articles on jazz to this website.
First presented at the April 2000 Jazz Education Conference in Leeds, the article’s appearance in Jazz Changes, a magazine I co-edited for some years, attracted the sub-heading ‘Graham Collier’s attempt to disturb the people of middle England’. By which I meant not so much the attendees at the conference – although some of them did indeed need disturbing – but all those in jazz to whom playing safe seems to be a way of life.
To read more go to Chord Scales in Writings.