"Buster explains jazz theory really well and his enthusiasm is infectious. I always come away feeling I've learned a great deal and had a lot of fun in the process."
Matt Male - tenor saxophone and flute
Jazz Workshop 85
Sat 3 May 10:30am (UK)
Arranging For Horns
This month I’m joined again by professional jazz pianist Michael Horner, a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and a tutor on our jazz summer school, who is much in demand on the London jazz scene.
In this class, we will be focusing on arranging for horns in a variety of different line-ups most commonly found in jazz repertoire. We will be drawing from the Drop II material that we covered in the last lecture and expanding on this further as well as covering other arranging techniques and topics, such as the importance of voice-leading and harmonic spacing.
We will also analyse some famous recordings along with demonstrations of how we apply these techniques to our own compositions/arrangements.
So this is going to be a very useful sessions, whatever your instrument!
Everyone is muted in the class, so you are welcome to play along as much as you like, or just tune in and observe. Either is fine. There is also a Q&A session at the end of the class.
The workshop lasts approx 1hr and starts at 10:30am
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If you can’t make the live session a video recording of the class will be available in my lesson vault.
Sample clips from past Zoom classes...
