tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86256102359876305392024-03-04T21:29:18.551-08:00The Open MikeMike Prigodich is a piano player and composer based in Oregon, and celebrated worldwide. Come learn more of what he shares on a personal level here at The Open Mike.Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-86005175149340792292016-01-24T17:03:00.003-08:002020-04-16T21:36:29.821-07:00passive vs. activeI have a love/hate relationship with reading books. Similar to TV, movies, looking at Facebook, playing games, even listening to music, it is a passive activity that takes time away from actually creating art (composing, practicing, etc.). It's easy to sit and relax and before you know it, years can go by without creating anything new. On the other hand, sometimes you need to recharge and get your mind thinking about other things and be inspired. It's hard for me to balance those activities with limited free time while working a day job and remembering to pay attention to my family sometimes. I got hooked on reading novels again a couple years ago. It's been enjoyable, but it's also taking a lot of time away from making music. My playing has suffered in some ways, but in other ways, my playing has changed for the better as time away from the piano now has me listening with fresh ears and improving things. On the other hand, if people didn't spend time being passive, no one would have time to appreciate the creativity of other artists.Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-80838957649592684552016-01-12T11:37:00.001-08:002016-01-12T11:37:20.055-08:00artistic self-doubt<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are all artists as neurotic as me? Almost every time I finish a new composition, I go from not liking it to deciding it's pretty good (though there are a few tunes I write that never really grow on me). Then I get paranoid that I'll never be able to compose another tune and the fear is paralyzing until I eventually force myself to attempt to write another tune, which involves being unsure of myself during the entire writing process. And then the cycle repeats itself all over again. </span>Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-32904233541779107272015-12-23T15:38:00.005-08:002015-12-23T15:46:33.486-08:00Solo piano Christmas arrangements and a nice compliment from Chick Corea! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">2 - Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">19 - Chick Corea Elektric Band inside Out </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">36 - Hellborg Lane Sipe Personae </td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">3 - Return to Forever Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">20 - Chick Corea Elektric Band beneath the Mask </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">37 - Kick the Cat Scramble </td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">4 - Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">21 - Tribal Tech </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">38 - John Mclaughlin Industrial Zen </td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">5 - Billy Cobham - Spectrum </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">22 - Brecker Brothers Collection Vol. 2 </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">39 - Hiromi Time Control </td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">6 - Tony Williams Lifetime Believe It </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">23 - Shawn Lane Powers of Ten </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">40 - Hiromi Spiral </td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">7 - Alphonse Mouzon Mind Transplant </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">24 - Shawn Lane the Tri Tone Fascination </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">41 - Garaj Mahal WOOt </td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">8 - Stanley Clarke School Days </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">25 - Kazumi Watanabe Pandora </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">42 - Panzerballett Starke Stucke </td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">9 - The Stanley Clarke Band </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">26 - Brand X Xcommunication </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">43 - Panzerballett Tank Goodness </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">12 - Al Dimeola Casino </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">29 - Jens Johansson Heavy Machinery </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">46 - David Hines Inner Duality </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">14 - Bill Bruford One of a Kind </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">31 - Cab 4 </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">48 - Mike Prigodich a Stitch in Time </td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">15 - Caldera Dreamer </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">32 - Fragile 5 </td><td style="vertical-align: top;">49 - Art Schloemer Transfusion </td></tr>
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Mike Prigodich & MPEG - “Lucy Goose” Live @ Jimmy Mak’s 8/26/2013<br />
Prigodich is a masterful composer/pianist and is joined by the the best of the best in Damian Erskine (bass) and the amazing Reinhardt Melz (drums). Watch the bass solo. It sounds like flamenco on bass.<br />
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<br />Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-80337617481054895462013-11-30T22:41:00.002-08:002013-11-30T22:41:46.853-08:00Thoughts on Chick's teaching styleIn response to someone who doesn't "get" Chick's master class / workshop approach, Chick is obviously not a traditional "teacher". But he is offering a glimpse into his approach and way of thinking when it comes to being a self-taught musician. Most of the legends of jazz had no formal training in jazz. They have their life experience and various apprenticeship models. I learned a lot by being able to play my own composition with him. I learned a lot by watching him navigate through new pieces -- live rehearsals, his approach to the music business, all sorts of things. Read back through my 12-part blog series and you'll find a ton of great knowledge about being a real-world musician, artist, composer, improviser, and band leader. Being a largely self-taught musician myself, and being a fan of Chick's music for decades, to be able to spend any time with him at all and have him share his ideas and insights about things was very valuable and eye-opening for me. I learned a ton from the workshop. It was pivotal and life-changing for me. My playing has improved as a result of replaying that experience in my mind and going back over my notes from the workshop repeatedly to let things sink in and take root. People have noticed my playing and writing has improved since that workshop and I attribute it largely to the confidence I gained from that workshop. Chick's mantra "Think For Yourself" is the key to finding your own voice as an artist. I am more relaxed when I play now. I listen better. I stop worrying about what other people think about my playing while I'm playing. My communication with my bandmates on stage has improved. All of that I attribute to the practical application of the things Chick described and demonstrated for us at the workshop.<br />
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So, while some people may not understand his teaching style, I certainly learned a ton and he supplied me with a lifetime of useful tips about improving as a musician and artist. There are many ways of teaching and learning. The academic approach is just one of many ways. Chick is not academic. Neither am I. I had so many "aha" moments during the workshop. Things just clicked. I gained a lot of new understanding.Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-71046925975858709002013-11-05T13:14:00.001-08:002013-11-05T13:14:00.219-08:00Today is the 5th anniversary of my cancer diagnosisToday is the 5th anniversary of my cancer diagnosis and surgery. I'll have my final scan and chest x-ray in late December at which point I'll be officially cancer-free if all goes well. After that checkup, I think I'll just have an annual blood test. A lot has happened in my life during those five years. Over all, that cancer diagnosis is one of the best things that ever happened to me. I owe my new music career to that diagnosis. My band, compositions, albums, gigs, etc. would not have happened without that life-changing motivation. Even though Lance Armstrong turned out to be a fraud in the cycling world, his cancer story and his Livestrong organization inspired me to do something positive in response to my disease. Thanks to my family, friends, fans, and God for giving me this second chance on life. Now the challenge is to keep the momentum going instead of sliding back into the everyday rut I was in prior to the diagnosis.Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-91399652787509428532013-10-26T03:07:00.003-07:002024-02-04T16:05:43.328-08:00A hand injury during college almost ended my piano career<br />
I had a hand injury during my freshman year of college and couldn't play piano at all for a couple years. BTW, the injury happened *while* playing piano due to bad self-taught technique! Then for over a decade I only played with three fingers on my right hand, eventually able to add my 4th and 5th fingers held together for strength. Only in the last few years have I been able to play octaves and have independent movement of my 4th and 5th fingers when playing piano. Ligament and tendon stabilizer injuries take a LONG time to heal or learn to compensate for using muscle support instead.<br />
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Back in the late 80's / early 90's, a hand surgeon wanted to do three surgeries to fuse bones in my right hand to form a false arch to make up for the damage, but said it only had a 20% chance of improving things and 20% chance it would make things worse. I decided against the surgery. So far, so good<br />
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I still have a collapsed arch in my right hand. I have to be very careful and pay attention to any slight pain while playing and stop whatever I'm doing immediately to avoid re-injuring it. My pinky has never felt normal since the initial injury. I'm still constantly aware that something doesn't feel right inside of my hand. Oh well. That's life.<br />
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<br />Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-36318517223219603882012-11-22T11:41:00.001-08:002013-10-25T00:55:44.275-07:00My composition process: from chicken scratch to finished notation<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZtiwTyWYRy9Itsav3l63I53nm3ghnRA8w8tjkY20yzTdPyV4HOgRcr1xZ5isqmwYLfk__W9prCdJL-FZiK2R_B6lnoX1iiadbyGETlOICajLaFtL0d29NIud7nbzQZ9D7iMYBy6dnuk/s1600/2012-02-12_14-44-36_961.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZtiwTyWYRy9Itsav3l63I53nm3ghnRA8w8tjkY20yzTdPyV4HOgRcr1xZ5isqmwYLfk__W9prCdJL-FZiK2R_B6lnoX1iiadbyGETlOICajLaFtL0d29NIud7nbzQZ9D7iMYBy6dnuk/s200/2012-02-12_14-44-36_961.jpg" width="112" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipWt-AvtOxtWCw8bPCask8pZ6WsnHBdG5saCjP_phC4xRGSuMssdvKyD2iIJTzTDQIfHvhiEUWmkKdphFDU5-nVDdWT5cCOmgMEu6w0dHECBhdWBtDvTYOmUxvHTIJCMeQ63ugu9NpKhc/s1600/2012-09-15_16-11-05_374.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipWt-AvtOxtWCw8bPCask8pZ6WsnHBdG5saCjP_phC4xRGSuMssdvKyD2iIJTzTDQIfHvhiEUWmkKdphFDU5-nVDdWT5cCOmgMEu6w0dHECBhdWBtDvTYOmUxvHTIJCMeQ63ugu9NpKhc/s200/2012-09-15_16-11-05_374.jpg" width="112" /></a>My new masterpiece. A quick 3/4 latin / flamenco tune inspired by Chick Corea's "La Fiesta". Lucy Goose is our nickname for our pet Lakeland terrier who likes to lie at my feet while I'm playing piano. It's a happy, playful song, just like our dog.<br />
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And here's a live performance of this piece with my band MPEG featuring John Nastos (sax), Damian Erskine (bass), Reinhardt Melz (drums), and Rafael Trujillo (percussion).<br />
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Now some background into the composition process for this piece and many of my other pieces. No one but me can make sense of my chicken scratch sketches until they get fleshed out into proper notation. It's my strange creative process at work. Almost every tune I write starts out like this.<br />
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For example: here's my original chicken scratch sketch of my new tune Lucy Goose.<br />
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And here's the final product -- the finished notation of my new tune Lucy Goose. Interesting to compare the finished product to the original illegible chicken scratch sketch.</div>
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Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-45768807019201047022012-10-16T10:22:00.002-07:002020-04-16T21:40:14.550-07:00A Week With Chick Corea: Part 12 -- Leaving Cranwell<b id="internal-source-marker_0.4065103509929031" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><a href="http://mikeprigodich.blogspot.com/p/a-week-with-chick-corea.html">Table Of Contents</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here's a memento from the activities of the first-ever <a href="http://chickcorea.com/wp/chick-corea-music-workshop/" target="_blank">Chick Corea Music Workshop</a>. At last, some video evidence that I was actually there and it really happened!</span><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We stayed up late on Thursday night after the photo session and reception, hanging out and chatting about the workshop and other things. A couple of the students snuck in to listen to Chick practicing in the ballroom in preparation for his upcoming gig with Gary Burton and the Harlem String Quartet that coming Saturday at the Detroit Jazz Festival, but I didn’t go listen because I didn’t want to wear out my welcome with Chick. I thought it best if I let him practice in relative peace and respect his privacy after all of his generosity toward us. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fun story:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Decided to grab lunch before hitting the road. Chick Corea and Bernie Kirsh randomly passed me at my table and stopped to say hi again before heading off to the </span><a href="http://www.detroitjazzfest.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Detroit Jazz Festival</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Cool that they noticed me and recognized me out of context while I was oblivious to their presence. I mentioned to Chick that my sax player (<a href="http://johnnastos.com/" target="_blank">John Nastos</a>) would also be there performing with </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Israels"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chuck Israels</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (former bass player for pianist </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bill Evans</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) the same day that Chick would be performing with Gary Burton, and Chick told me to have him stop and say hi in Detroit tomorrow. However, John didn’t meet Chick in Detroit because he said Chick got mobbed with people at the festival so he had no chance to try to meet him. Oh well. It was worth a shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was almost surreal to go back to my day job on Tuesday, Sept. 4, the day after Labor Day. It was a harsh return to reality sitting in my cubicle testing software for<a href="http://www.dell.com/" target="_blank"> Dell, Inc.</a> that day after spending the previous week living a dream with my childhood and adulthood musical hero and inspiration. Did it really happen? Was it all just a figment of my imagination? Still processing everything that occurred during that magical week away from the real world. Great to be back home with my family though. Now the challenge will be to put everything I learned into action and continue to improve as an artist and continue to create new art. That’s what Chick would want me to do. That’s the best way I can thank him for everything he did for us that week. That was the whole point and purpose of the workshop. So here goes. Onward and upward. And continue to put “Think For Yourself” ™ into practice.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I was hanging out with a Bostonian friend last Friday [after the workshop] and just learned about a scientific explanation for Chick's accent: no letters are wasted! If you take an "r" out of any word you put it back somewhere else, no matter how absurd it sounds. For example: "I was driving my cah and suddenly had an idear." I think guys from Boston don't even think they have an accent, other people do.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Farnell: "Ha ha of course. Mississippi studio. Ben Williams hit me up trying to find something to do and I told him to come see <a href="http://www.brianblade.com/" target="_blank">Brian Blade</a>! So he brought the gang!"</i></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How did you enjoy the 4 days of workshops with Chick and the trio? What were some highlights? </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was the most fascinating experience of my entire life. Loved every minute of it. Some highlights were getting to meet and learn from Chick, John, and Antonio as well as meeting Chick's amazing crew -- Bill Rooney, Dan Muse, and Bernie Kirsch. Seeing Chick demonstrate his two handed 10 drummers 88 drums concept to the blind attendee (Scott Erichsen) was fascinating since he'd never known about using two hands because he'd never seen Chick's hands. It was very enlightening and refreshing to experience Chick's non-academic approach to music -- no need to put a technical label on each sound or scale, with the emphasis being "think for yourself" and using sound, rhythm, harmony, melody, and space to create an effect on the listener in order to communicate with other musicians and the audience. Having Chick be willing to share his approach to synthesizers such as the Moog using Neil Shankman's Moog Voyager and I loved the performance with the Moog. Having the chance to play music together with these three amazing musicians was also a highlight.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What did you hope to accomplish attending the Corea Camp? Did you accomplish these goals?</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My goals for the workshop were to learn more about Chick approach to music (performing, practicing, composing, band leading, etc.) in order to see what ideas I could try to apply to myself in order to grow as a musician and composer. I believe I accomplished these goals, though perhaps not in the way that I thought I might prior to the workshop. But I learned a ton and I think it was exactly the information I needed to hear. I took lots of careful handwritten notes and will go back through the notes and type them up for future reference.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What particular things did you learn that you believe you can now apply to improve your music making? </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I learned that communication is key and technical and theoretical knowledge is less important though you need technical mastery in order to communicate ideas without thinking about the technical execution of those ideas. I need to work methodically at improving my technical abilities to gain the freedom I need to communicate effortlessly and efficiently. I'm also inspired to improve my overall physical health to take care of my body which I use to play my instrument. I'm very inspired by Chick's amazing weight loss over the last few years, not to mention his prolific composing and recording output. I'm inspired to continue to write and perform music as often as possible and to be accepting of my initial ideas, to not worry about what others think, but to think for myself, while at the same time, treating others with respect and dignity. Chick's approach to treating others the way you want to be treated and his love for people and the audience shines through in all he does. Many other artists out there treat their audiences and fellow musicians and business partners poorly, but Chick is a joy to watch as he constantly models what it means to be a generous, warm, open person who truly wants to have a good relationship with everyone he encounters in life. So I'm inspired not only to be a better artist, but also a better human being in general.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was a blast to perform briefly together with the trio though I'm sure there are ways to improve the experience through rehearsal and a chance to work on ways to improve the performance after getting feedback, etc. I wish there had been more time to perfect the performance for the recording -- a quick rehearsal or a second or third take and we all would have nailed our parts. Perhaps setting some boundaries up front in song selection, arranging/notation clarity, and a basic audition process or application process to filter out musicians below a certain level would help raise the bar at the performance level, though that may not be Chick's goal if he wants to keep things open to anyone at any level. Grouping students into different levels might be useful to then customize the appropriate types of activities and information for each set of varying abilities and levels of understanding.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I really enjoyed watching Chick learning on the fly how to be a better teacher. I just want to express my complete gratitude for this very special and intimate opportunity to spend such quality time with Chick, a true master artist, perhaps the most prolific composer and band leader of the last fifty years or more. Thank you so much for the generosity toward us expressed by continuing to hold the workshop as planned in spite of the bad financial situation and the amazing integrity and ethical response to cover the costs out of your own pocket. We are forever in your debt in so many ways. My commitment to continuing to grow as an artist, composer, musician, communicator, and as a human being is the best way I can express my on-going thanks to Chick for all he has given us over the years and especially at this workshop. I've learned a lot about myself and how to relate to other people through this experience. I look forward to meeting again someday and eagerly await whatever art Chick will create in the months and years to come. Chick is my hero in so many ways and yet I love how there is absolutely no ego involved in his interactions with others. You have my utmost respect and I'm honored to have been a part of this grand experiment. Keep doing what you do and wish you all the best for many more years to come. Well done! </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Mike Prigodich</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today I finally got to hear a recording of me playing my composition "Play Structure" with Chick Corea, John Patitucci, and Antonio Sanchez at the workshop last summer. I signed a legal document preventing me from sharing the recording with anyone since it is a rough mix of an unrehearsed first take. All I can say is that it was amazing to hear them sight-reading my piece and playing along with me expertly recorded and mixed by Bernie Kirsh. I got to play Chick's 9-foot Yamaha CFIIIS grand piano while Chick played on his Fender Rhodes Mark V (sampled on his Yamaha Motif XF). Hearing Chick solo and comp on my changes and interact with my playing was almost exactly how I imagined it would be. And hearing John reading treble clef on the fly to periodically play unison melody lines on his 6-string electric bass and listening to Antonio blend perfectly and catch all the kicks on the drums just looking at the lead sheet was astonishing. Those guys are the real deal. And it was cool to hear Chick say afterwards, "Wonderful. Beautiful. Really great. Wow, Mike. Great writing, man." Sometimes impossible dreams do come true!</span></span><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.3223528666421771" style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I was leaving my room to head to lunch, I walked past a painter in the hallway and was surprised when he said something like, “Great job last night!” I asked what he meant and he said he had snuck into the ballroom after work and seen my performance with Chick, John, and Antonio the night before. I didn’t expect the staff at the resort to be into the music at the workshop, but apparently some of the staff were musically inclined and they were excited that that Chick Corea was at the resort that week. That was fun to hear that he enjoyed my composition and playing. </span></b><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.33513581566512585" style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we entered the ballroom after lunch, I grinned when I saw the piano being </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_tuning"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tuned</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. They introduced piano technician </span><a href="http://yellowwiz.com/USA/Massachusetts/Springfield/Pianos+-+Tuning+Repairing+%26+Refinishing/richard-speer_6460941"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rick Speer</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> when he was finished tuning. As I suspected, Chick decided he needed the piano tuned after all following the heavy pounding it took the day before. Of course, Chick tends to have his piano re-tuned during intermission at his concerts so he obviously has a critical ear when it comes to pianos being in tune, as do I. I find I play better and I’m much more inspired when the piano is perfectly in tune. An out-of-tune piano, even just slightly out-of-tune, tends to bother me and I get distracted by the imperfection in tone.</span></b><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><b id="internal-source-marker_0.33513581566512585" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m actually a piano technician of sorts myself. I had learned how to tune pianos about a decade ago when I was considering changing careers to become a full-time piano technician during a period of unemployment from the IT industry. I partially completed </span><a href="http://www.pianotuning.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Randy Potter’s School Of Piano Technology</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> home study course but only completed the tuning portion of the course and never made it through the voicing, regulation, and repair / maintenance portions of the course. I also “cheat” by using some software to help me set the temperament and pitch but use my ear to tune unisons. I tend to make other piano technicians work hard for me because I can hear when </span><a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Tune-a-Unison-on-a-Piano"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">unisons</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> aren’t quite right. I’ve fixed some unisons in the past and then had a former Steinway Concert and Artist technician check my work and she was amazed at how perfect my unisons were. I’ve made her re-tune notes for me when I haven’t been completely happy with a tuning. I’m picky. So I completely empathize with Chick when it comes to piano tuning standards and I really appreciate how good the piano always sounds on his studio and live recordings as well as the times I’ve heard him perform live.</span></b><br />
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From Chick's <a href="http://chickcorea.com/wp/2009/07/interview-with-myself/">blog</a>:<br />
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<i>Playing a different piano each night, differently prepared, is an ongoing challenge. I’m afraid (or glad) that I’ve become totally spoiled by (or accustomed to) the greatest and best-prepared pianos in the world – so I’ve also become very picky about the quality of the pianos I encounter. Fortunately, my longtime friend and master piano technician Brian Alexander tries his best to make calls around the world to help choose the best local technicians and pianos. I discovered years ago that the technician and his ability to prepare a piano is far more important than the make or even the condition of the piano. My favorite pianos continue to be the Yamaha CF3 and the Bosendorfer concert grands. But, unless they are well prepared, it might as well be any spinet available.</i><br />
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From the <a href="http://www.tedkurland.com/materials/riders/CHICKCOREATHEVIGILRIDERHADRIENWM.pdf">rider</a> for Chick's new band The Vigil:<br />
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<i>Chick Corea - Piano & Keyboards:<br />
The Piano provided by Yamaha Concerts and Artists will be a 9 foot Grand piano CFX or CFIIIS Midi Grand. It will be on stage one day before the show if provided locally or will travel with Chick in a custom road case depending on local availability. Nothing but tuning and stand by services will be needed for the show. No voicing or adjustments of any kind are needed to the Yamaha grand unless specifically requested by Chick Corea the day of the show.<br />
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The Concert Piano Service For The Show Must Be:<br />
1) Tune the piano to Current Pitch <br />
2) Meet Mr. Corea at sound check , discuss the piano and any changes that may be needed.<br />
3) Tune the piano again to Current pitch before the show.<br />
4) Touch up the tuning at intermission.<br />
5) Stand-By for the ENTIRE show.<br />
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TUNING THE PIANO<br />
Tuning of the piano for Chick must be done with a HEAVY POUNDING METHOD, the only very "stable" style. Regardless of the temperament chosen for the concert piano at hand the piano must be POUNDED in completely. If you are not a POUNDER when you tune then do not work for Mr. Corea. A top line piano tech knows this from experience. You must strike the keys harder than Chick can to insure tuning stability.<br />
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Chick can really strike a piano hard as he throws accents into lines and passages with his right hand and left hand. If the tuning isn't pounded in completely the piano will go out of tune quickly. POUND THE PIANO INTO TUNE. If you have you ever tuned for Lazar Berman, Lexo Toradze, McCoy Tyner or Billy Joel you know what I am saying. POUNDING IN THE TUNING is the only method that is acceptable for Mr. Corea.<br />
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ON SHOW DAY, ON STAGE, if you are not pounding the piano into tune with a HEAVY POUNDING METHOD you may be asked to be replaced by Chick Corea Production Staff.<br />
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Thank you for your attention to this. Please realize that to Mr. Corea you are the most important staff person at the concert hall and just as important as the piano. He is very aware that a top line piano technician can make all the difference to the quality of his experience and his audience. Your attention to the piano in the above manner will insure that Mr. Corea enjoys the piano provided to him and that he will provide a stellar performance for the audience.<br />
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Call me directly if you have any technical questions regarding any of the above. With over thirty years of experience on the road and in recording with Mr. Corea, forty-five years in the piano business of manufacturing, restoration, rental, touring, tuning and servicing performed on instruments made by all of the major piano manufacturers, I am sure that I have the solution to any problem you might encounter. <br />
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Brian Alexander<br />
http://www.brianalexanderfinepianos.com<br />
Ph. 805 226 2272<br />
brianalexander@sbcglobal.net<br />
Fine Pianos Since 1962</i></span><br />
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</span></b>Chick started this session by saying this would be his final Q & A session for the workshop. Bill Rooney also told us that they had decided to end the workshop Thursday night since Chick had an early flight to catch on Friday, so there wouldn’t not be any session on Friday morning as originally planned.</span></b><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Promotion, management, marketing is a different “</span><a href="http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/wear+many+hats.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hat</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Piano demonstration -- </span><a href="http://www.learnjazzstandards.com/jazz-standards-2/meditation-by-antonio-carlos-jobim/"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meditation</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Carlos_Jobim"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Antonio Carlos Jobim</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Mendon%C3%A7a"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Newton Mendonça</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick said he’s never played it before. </span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick observed that it is in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">key of ‘C’</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick said the chords and melody on the lead sheet don’t sound right to him.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick came up with new chords and corrections to the melody that sound right to him.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lead sheets are not accurate</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TIP: Chick learned standards from renditions by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miles Davis</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bird (Charlie Parker)</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></li>
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</span></b> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick said he met </span><a href="http://www.hiromimusic.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hiromi</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> when she was 14 or 15 (though according to the info on Chick’s web site about their </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Duet-Chick-Hiromi-Corea/dp/B001OD6HA4"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">duet album</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, he met her when she was 17). He said it was an isolated incident. Later, the man who helps Chick organize concerts in Japan suggested performing with her in a piano duo, so Chick listened to her recordings, called her, and they gave it a try. After a few days, he realized she was the same girl he had met years ago when she was younger.</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn chords so well that you’re familiar with the form.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop thinking about form and make changes to it.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick sat down at the piano and demonstrated what he meant by playing a couple tunes for us:</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue Monk by </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk">Thelonious Monk</a></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></li>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.3223528666421771" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s a video clip of Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin goofing off with Blue Monk that is a great example of what Chick means by playing around with the form. NOTE: See their duet album </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chick-Corea-Rendezvous-Bobby-McFerrin/dp/B000BD1LKO" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and their live </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chick-Corea-Rendezvous-Bobby-McFerrin/dp/B000BD1LKO" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Duet DVD</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for more of this fun duo.</span></b></span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone asked a question about Chick’s composition Matrix and referred to it as a blues. </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick emphatically stated: “</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matrix is NOT the blues!</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”, then went on to explain the difference between a sketch and a fully written form.</span></b> <br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick played one of his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/ECM-Touchstones-Childrens-Chick-Corea/dp/B001CSQINM/ref=sr_1_2" target="_blank">Children’s Songs</a> at the piano as an example of a more thoroughly written composition.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A thoroughly written composition is intended to create a particular effect.</span></li>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long Extended Solos</span> </b><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone asked a question about how Chick improvises long extended solos.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick demonstrates playing random disconnected crap at the piano as an example of how </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to play a solo.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He saw students taking notes while he was playing the random crap, stopped playing, and joked in mock consternation: </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What are you writing down? Are you stealing my licks?”</span></li>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gia Ionesco asked a question about how to approach composing a new piece -- start with motifs and phrases or think about the whole thing? What is the priority for various settings? Trio, quartet, large group, etc.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/ECM-Touchstones-Childrens-Chick-Corea/dp/B001CSQINM/ref=sr_1_2" target="_blank">Children’s Songs</a> were written just as an exercise to relax</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decides that he needs a piece to create a desired mood or effect</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quickly produces a piece to produce that mood or effect</span></li>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE: My composition process is very similar to Chick’s process demonstrated in these video clips below where Chick composes a brand new piece before your very eyes and ears. This is something I had hoped he would do for us in person at the 5-day Master Workshop, but he didn’t compose a complete new piece for us on the spot like he did in this video. So I’m glad this video exists so we can see an example of how he writes tunes. By the way, the rehearsal portion in these videos is also similar to the way my own band develops grooves and arrangements of my compositions.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick demonstrates writing a new composition called “Long Fall”, then rehearses it with John Patitucci on bass and Tom Brechtlein on drums. These clips are taken from the </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/COREA-CHICK-KEYBOARD-WORKSHOP-KEYBO/dp/B00008CMO2"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick Corea Keyboard Workshop DVD / VHS</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I asked Chick about how to approach writing a long extended composition.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Continents-Concerto-Quintet-Orchestra/dp/B006FW0BHE"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Continents: Concerto For Jazz Quintet And Orchestra</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick said he was asked to write a concerto in the spirit of Mozart for Mozart’s 250th birthday celebration in Austria. </span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick said he came up with the six continents idea after the six movements were already written -- six continents matched up nicely with the six movements.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE: My commentary -- this was fascinating to me since I assumed incorrectly that Chick must have conceived of writing the movements as a musical picture of each continent prior to writing any of the music. It never occurred to me that he had actually written the music first before deciding to name the movements after each continent because I hear influences of the continent for which each movement is named when I listen to the movements. Chick did a really good job of assigning the appropriate continent names to each of the movements!</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The theme became the form to improvise on.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick didn’t write the theme first when he began to compose the piece.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead, Chick started writing the piece with some random rambling. </span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The theme came later on in the process.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Land on something that has substance that can be repeated</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writes theme → leads to something else → leads to something else</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes never coming back to original theme</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE: My commentary: Fascinating! Chick had trouble playing some of the parts in this movement for us, even though I saw him perform this piece flawlessly a few days earlier at Tanglewood. But in front of us, he had to stop a few times and work out a few tricky parts he misread. And apparently after the workshop was over, Chick practiced late into the night working on this music for his upcoming performance at the Detroit Jazz Festival that next weekend. It’s very comforting to me to see that Chick forgets how to play things, makes mistakes, and has to practice before an upcoming gig! He is human after all.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone asked a question about how to practice.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick tried to come up with a better example of two hand independence.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick played a bass line in the left hand to establish a repeating pattern.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick demonstrates playing each hand separately, then together.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play slowly and notice where the notes fall.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sing subdivisions while playing</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you can play any phrase very slowly with beauty and expression -- you “win”.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t practice fast with glitches because you end up practicing “losses”.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build small things into bigger things → so you can fly.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t practice fast.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hearing each other</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.mi.edu/faculty/schroeder-carl"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carl Schroeder</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> wants bass to be loudest in an acoustic trio.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talked about </span><a href="http://www.bobmagnusson.net/bio.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bob Magnusson</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on bass.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the age of amplification.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A phrase is a phrase.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick demonstrates phrasing by speaking in shorter and longer sentences.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doesn’t matter where it starts and ends.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It matters </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you start and end it.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Starting / ending in the same place has a different effect vs. starting / ending in various different places.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My commentary -- I read somewhere that Chick once said: </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Play only what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything.”</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> That will also help you decide when to start and stop phrases. It will also help create space and leave room for communication from other band members so you don’t just mindlessly keep playing notes to fill up all the available space. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Martin Hallmark asked Chick how to improve rhythm abilities.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick’s answer:</span> <br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That’s a deep question.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advice differs from person to person</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anything that works would work.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find recordings and videos that you like → try to duplicate it exactly.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Example: Transcribing </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Powell"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bud Powell</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play along to recording.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set the balance of the piano and the recording to just about the same volume so you can hear when you are off.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transcribing recordings helped Chick a lot.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transcribing things yourself is more helpful than simply looking at someone else’s transcription work. You’ll learn more by doing the work yourself.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE: My commentary -- check out Chick’s </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Bud-Powell-Chick-Corea/dp/B000003OZO"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remembering Bud Powell</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> album as well as the </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chick-Corea-Friends-Remembering-Powell/dp/6305760969"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">live DVD</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from the original tour.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s some video of the Remembering Bud Powell band reunion performance from Chick’s 60th birthday party available as part of the </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chick-Corea-Rendezvous-Remembering-Powell/dp/B000BVNSAC"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rendezvous In New York</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> set of DVDs:</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See the standard → strive to get to that standard.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Record yourself to see where you need to improve.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can only create the rhythm that you envision.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go over and over a phrase to get it right.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick had Martin come up and sit at the piano to work on some aspects of rhythm.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once the technical bits are out of the way, it will </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">flow</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone asked Chick if he changes his his approach for different audiences or cultures in other countries.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick’s answer:</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Somewhat / Not Much.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Example: Chick Corea New Trio concert</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10,000 people outdoors</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick loves free concerts</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What to do with acoustic trio in this situation?</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Played more in a groove.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Less vague.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amazed to have attention of that many people in spite of the crowd and the distance.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Call and response with the loud Italian audience.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like having 10,000 opera singers!</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Changed the vibe / atmosphere.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cultural differences</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t need to play different phrases for different cultures.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone asked Chick if he does arranging with specific musicians in mind or not.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick’s answer:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evan James asked Chick for advice on piano technique and gave some examples of strange advice he’d been given regarding piano technique.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick’s answer:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick raised his eyebrows at some of the odd piano technique advice that Evan had been given.</span> <br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find ways of rendering phrases that feel most comfortable.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Try to find the most efficient way to play.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Concepts:</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beauty</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Movement</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Efficiency</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is the smoothest way to do that?</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the greatest pianists all play differently.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But they all play efficiently.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No one way to do it.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to acquire efficiency:</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick said he is mostly self-taught through mid-to-late 1990’s.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then Chick saw </span><a href="http://www.mariofeninger.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mario Feninger</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> perform.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick asked Mario how he played without moving.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick has been learning a new technique to play more efficiently since then.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s a video clip of Mario Feninger performing so you can see his piano technique in action:</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t ever put your hand in a position where you’ll hurt your hand.</span></li>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.33513581566512585" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fernando Giuffrida’s commentary: “There is one thing I remember very clearly and is fun, but most people might not have heard because Chick said it very softly. After he answered Evan's questions, he looked sideways ironically and said something: "I didn't know I knew so much about technique!". That's a good joke. Off course he knows about technique!”
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“I’ve recently come around to the realization that my main thing was—and still is—as a composer, and not trying to be a great pianist. I mean, I would love to now be a great pianist, so I’m starting to practice. But composing was always my focus, and I would use the piano to realize my compositions.” — Chick Corea, 2009<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone asked Chick what he himself had learned by doing the workshop.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick’s answer:</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everybody is really different.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What things can I do that will be useful to all?</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do you deal with the individuality of everybody?</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking individuals and working with them at the piano.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Took too long to have everyone play.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next time:</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have people play twice with critique in between.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone asked Chick to teach us some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicing_(music)" target="_blank">chord voicings</a>.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick’s answer:</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No, I’m not going to do that.” </span> <br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Look at original scores.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listen to others.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create your own voicings.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You don’t have to agree with people.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let people have their own opinions.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick doesn’t like arguments.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick thinks it’s better if two people want to learn from each other.</span></li>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.3223528666421771" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the break, I had a chance to chat with </span><a href="http://www.johnpatitucci.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Patitucci</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We chatted a little about a mutual friend of ours, pianist </span><a href="http://www.deannawitkowski.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deanna Witkowski</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I went to school with Deanna and both Deanna and I studied for a time with a piano player in Chicago named </span><a href="http://www.bradleywilliamslive.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brad Williams</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. John recorded with Deanna on her album </span><a href="http://www.deannawitkowski.com/recordings.shtml"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From This Place</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and has performed with her on occasion. Deanna sometimes stays at our house in Oregon during her Pacific NW tours.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I asked John if Chick planned on making any future workshops more exclusive by having an audition or application process to filter out people below a certain level of ability or knowledge. But John said “no” and talked about Chick’s desire to have the workshop open to anyone. John said that Chick feels he can help anyone at any level and didn’t want it to be an exclusive workshop.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Patitucci is a Christian and I was interested to hear a little bit about what it was like for him as a Christian to work with Chick who is a Scientologist. John said he used to be Presbyterian deacon and is now an elder in his church. John said he grew up Catholic but was searching to be closer to God at age 15. He converted from Catholicism at age 17. John said he used to be more legalistic as a young believer and said there has definitely been tension working with Chick due to their religious differences. But he has learned to be more loving in spite of differences in beliefs over the years. He is very close to Chick. He was the only Christian in the Elektric Band until </span><a href="http://www.ericmarienthal.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eric Marienthal</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> joined the band. Eric is Catholic. John said he will not perform at events promoting Scientology, but he will perform at events that promote freedom of religion. John also talked about the struggle of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">left </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vs. the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">right </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in politics today. He said we should put people and faith and the great commission first before politics. He also talked about compassion and the need to help and feed the poor before dealing with spiritual issues.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is a great interview with John Patitucci where he talks about his Christian faith:</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b> <br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t know much about Travis Richardson -- where he’s from, etc. Travis wanted to play a medley of two of Chick’s most well-known compositions. He had written up a very loose arrangement (a “mashup”) but it wasn’t very clear to Chick or the rest of the trio. There was also some trouble with communicating when to move to different sections of the piece while performing it.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Afterwards, Chick and John talked about making notation clear. Lay the music out in 4 and 8 bar phrases so that phrases follow the lines and measures line up. They also talked about how we should give a head nod to signal when to move on to different sections of a piece and to look up to get everyone’s attention.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armando’s Rhumba from Chick’s album </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Spanish-Heart-Chick-Corea/dp/B00004RD5D"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Spanish Heart</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://mikerihner.com/">Mike “Rhino” Rihner</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a composer, performer, and educator from New Orleans and his arrival at the workshop was delayed due to Hurricane Isaac which was weighing heavy on his mind all week. So he decided to write an original during the workshop inspired by New Orleans and Hurricane Isaac. He chose the title “Coffee And Chickory” which was a clever pun since coffee and chicory is a traditional beverage in New Orleans and he wanted to dedicate it to the workshop in honor of Chick.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick had some trouble interpreting the chart that Mike had written because some of the sections had no written melody -- just chord symbols. Chick gave us all the following advice: “</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When wanting someone to improvise over changes to a song, always write out the melody.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the way, Mike Rihner happens to know the bass player in my band </span><a href="http://www.damianerskine.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Damian Erskine</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Mike had played a gig with Damian in Vancouver, WA a few years ago and still remembered him. Small world!</span></b> <br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Selected piece</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: On The Rocks (original)</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Style</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: blues</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.robertschlesinger.com/">Bob Schlesinger</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a composer and performer from Colorado. He’s also a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldenkrais_Method"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feldenkrais</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> practitioner (reduces pain or limitations in movement, improves physical function and well-being through increased awareness and movement). Bob wrote his original “On The Rocks” as a response to Thelonious Monk’s “Straight No Chaser”. </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick commented that Bob’s piece was a good example of a clear form with space for John and Antonio to play / communicate / interact. </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, and Roy Haynes performing Straight No Chaser from the Rendezvous In New York DVD series from Chick’s 60th birthday bash:</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Selected piece</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Derivatives (original)</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Style</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: funky fusion in 7/4</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Selected piece</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lush_Life_(song)"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lush Life</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Billy Strayhorn)</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Style</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: ballad</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pianist </span><a href="http://winks1834.home.sprynet.com/index.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steve Talaga</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is from Michigan, I think. I must have been getting tired or too warm in the hot muggy room because my notes for Steve’s performance are basically non-existent. I think Steve played a straight-ahead style original but I’m not really sure since I didn’t write the information down.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s a video clip of the Steve Talaga Trio so you can get a taste of Steve’s playing:</span></b></div>
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Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-67317691723936087692012-10-08T22:34:00.000-07:002020-04-16T21:45:19.100-07:00A Week With Chick Corea: Part 10 -- Day 3 (cont.) -- Evening<a href="http://mikeprigodich.blogspot.com/p/a-week-with-chick-corea.html">Table Of Contents</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evan James had traveled from Australia to attend the workshop. Evan has only been playing piano for few years. I haven’t really heard Chick play this style very much if at all, but it was fun to hear them jam on this tune.</span><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m Mike Prigodich, the guy writing this blog. See my </span><a href="http://www.mikeprigodich.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">website</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for more information about me. I had traveled from Portland, Oregon to attend the workshop. While I’ve been playing piano since I was kid, I’m mostly self-taught though I’ve had a few lessons off and on over the years. I’ve been a huge fan of Chick and John Patitucci since high school, so this was a dream come true for me. I never imagined I would get a chance to play with these guys, let alone have them play one of my own compositions with me. I couldn’t believe I was actually going perform one tune live with Chick Corea, John Patitucci, and Antonio Sanchez in front of the workshop audience while Bernie Kirsh recorded and cameras filmed, let alone my very own composition. </span>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They sightread my challenging fusion/flamenco style original called Play Structure (me on Chick's 9 ft. Yamaha grand piano and Chick on his Yamaha Motif XF with his Rhodes Mark V patch). You can see the </span><a href="http://www.mikeprigodich.com/chord-charts/PlayStructure.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lead sheet for Play Structure</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on my website, along with all of my other charts. I named this piece Play Structure because it was a playful structure to improvise on and I happened to look outside in my backyard and saw the play structure that my kids used to play on.</span>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I wrote this piece, I tried to model it after one of my favorite compositions by Chick called Little Flamenco that he recorded with his band Origin on the </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Change-Chick-Corea/dp/B00000J7Y3"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Change</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> album. I think I did a pretty good job of imitating the style and spirit of that piece in my original without making it sound like I was simply copying it. It’s similar but different. </span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=22164&ac=now" target="_blank">audio </a>for Chick’s composition Little Flamenco so you can hear the vibe I was going for in my own composition.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I talked through the chart with Chick, John, and Antonio. I asked Chick to help me establish the rhythm before the intro by starting with palmas (hand claps) with me since I know Chick likes to do that in a lot of his Spanish-flamenco-style pieces. Chick wanted to rehearse it slowly first. I had trouble and a couple false starts trying to play it as slow as Chick wanted to try it, but eventually got it with Antonio’s help. Then we tried it in-tempo. Chick missed the Coda at the end and kept misreading a Bb minor 7 chord as a major 7 (#11) or something like that at the top of the form every time we repeated the form which just sounded wrong since it clashed with what I was playing. Chick, John, and I all played solos. Chick apologized for missing the Coda and offered to try it again, but to save time, suggested that we start with my solo and then play the last head and take the Coda. Before we started playing again, Antonio asked if we could stretch out one section at letter ‘C’ because he thought the vamp would be great for a drum solo during the last head. So, we tried it, and Chick got the right chord at the top of the form, and we nailed the Coda. Sounded really tight. Lots of fun. They really enjoyed playing the chart and liked my writing, so that felt good. I was just sorry we didn't have more time to play the whole tune from start to finish to get a good recording in a single take from start to finish.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John did some beautiful bass playing on this rendition after talking things through and trying some different ideas in a couple spots.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Don’t get trapped just running [chord] changes bar-by-bar. Find a path through it.”</span>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was a brand new tune that Chick had recently written but never played before. It was more through-composed with specific written lines to play with both hands on the piano (and bass). One of Chick’s friends once said goodbye to Chick by saying, “Keep the music fires burning bright.” Chick thought that was an interesting phrase and idea so he used it in the title of this piece. It was a beautiful composition. I hope it gets recorded and released at some point.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick seems to have lost some hearing. Had trouble hearing some verbal instructions at times or would hear the wrong word. Chick half-joked at one point about how his hearing hasn’t been the same since the RTF IV tour (</span><a href="http://return2forever.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Return To Forever</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). I’m sure all the years of touring with loud volumes has taken a toll on his hearing. Plus, he’s 71 years old and a lot of people his age (and younger) have hearing loss, so it was no surprise. </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b></b><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.923325018491596" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I avoided going to the jam sessions in the mansion again because today was the day I was supposed to record with the trio. </span></b></b><b id="internal-source-marker_0.923325018491596" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.6594787715002894" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulp. Recording a piece with Chick Corea, John Patitucci, and Antonio Sanchez tonight. One take. On camera in front of audience (the other workshop attendees). Bernie Kirsh doing the recording. No pressure. I pick whatever tune I want and they sightread it with me. Going to have them try one of my originals. <b id="internal-source-marker_0.923325018491596" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.923325018491596" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was scheduled for an evening slot but I wasn’t quite sure what tune I should play. </span></b></b>Should be fun. Until the stage fright kicks in. </span></b></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the start of Antonio’s session, he said something like: “Alright, I know Chick doesn’t like to criticize and we’ve been fairly positive in our comments after your performances, but I’m going to be the bad cop and try to give you some constructive criticism.”</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s inspiring to see players always pushing to grow and improve.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play with much better musicians.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE: (my commentary) -- this reminds me of some great advice that bassist Mark Egan gave me a few years ago. I took this advice to heart and it really works!</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let the drummer and other soloists cue when they’re done so they can pace their solos.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t just cut them off at the end of a chorus. Let them signal when they’re ready to end.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every great soloist -- you know </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">exactly</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> when they are done</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">band members can change positions inside the canoe to balance it or not</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bass player is like the fulcrum -- center of the canoe</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many little decisions in real time</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Analogy -- you don’t think about speaking or getting out of bed</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technical study allows you to stop worrying about that stuff when you play</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lets you hear what you need to work on</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The recorder is the 4th person in a trio</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t waste time on stuff you won’t use on the gig</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Easy to use in the </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wrong</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> way</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eg. 30 bpm instead of 120 bpm</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">try changing to a different number of beats between clicks</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">example: 8 → 7 → 6 → 5 → 4 → 3 → 2 and back up to 8</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Try different polyrhythms with two instruments and two players together</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At this point, Antonio asks John Patitucci to come up and help demonstrate some two player polyrhythmic stuff while playing to a slow click. John plays a funk bass line in 4 while Antonio plays a drum solo involving different grooves in various time signatures while the click stays constant. The slow click is always on the downbeat of each measure. Very difficult even for those guys, and Antonio says so afterwards!</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it varies</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not consistent</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not uniform</span></li>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are probably better examples out there, but here's an example of my band switching between 6 and 4 feels during the solo section of this original of mine entitled </span><a href="http://www.mikeprigodich.com/chord-charts/AtSixesAndSevens.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Sixes And Sevens</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from my </span><a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mikeprigodich3"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Variety Pack - Live EP</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. WARNING: the head to this piece is actually in 7, so you won't feel the 6 and 4 until the solo section starts. But we switch back and forth between 6 and 4 a lot during the solos emphasizing different aspects of a 2 against 3 feel or a 3 against 4 feel. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. “B” needs to hear “A”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A random facebook friend of mine George Lamie had asked me to find out the answer to a question he had about some video footage from years past. I was curious about it too since I’d been looking forward to this very same video footage. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I wonder if you could do me a favor. When you get a spare second with Chick, I wish you'd ask him about those dvds that were supposed to come out, but never did. I think you and I talked about them once. 2 shows from the Blue Note N.Y.C. from around 5 years ago. One being Elektric Band w/ Wooten, the other being the so-called Leprechaun band, Gadd, Jackson, and Gambale. His secretary, Julie Rooney, told me she saw the raw footage and they're fantastic, so I'd like to know what gives, from his perspective. Think you could squeeze it in?” </span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Week one featured the Elektric Band with Chick/keyboards (including Rhodes and Mini Moog), Dave Weckl/drums, Eric Marienthal/saxes, Frank Gambale/guitar and bass virtuoso Victor Wooten. The music nearly raised the roof off the venerable jazz club making it a very memorable week for this one-of-kind ensemble. The band played a great cross-section of material from the Elektric Band catalog. The band was in top form and with the addition of Victor Wooten on bass for this special engagement, the group was grooving and burning hard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second exciting week featured a group of musicians Chick dubbed "The Leprechaun Band." This group featured Chick on keyboards, the great Steve Gadd on drums, bass legend Anthony Jackson, the amazing Ravi Coltrane on saxes and the Elektric Band's Frank Gambale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This exclusive reunion focused on Chick's music from the 70's; revisiting tunes from the classic albums The Leprechaun, The Mad Hatter, My Spanish Heart and Friends. This group was really special because it was the first time Chick, Steve Gadd and Anthony Jackson--all musicians who were on the original recordings--had ever played the music live together!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To take things over the top, Chick and band played Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy from the first electric Return To Forever album. There's a special significance to this in that Steve Gadd was actually the original drummer for the electric Return To Forever band (a little known bit of fusion-lore) before Lenny White joined the group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The gigs were documented with a very innovative video shoot using 15 miniature High Definition cameras placed around the stage at different interesting vantage points. The end result will make you feel like you're actually on stage and in the band!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, there are plans to make a special "instructional video" version of this film, where the viewer would be able to focus on a particular player in viewing the DVD. If you wanted to watch only Victor Wooten (or whoever your choice was) for the whole performance, from two or three camera angles, the viewer would have that flexibility. You could switch between all of the players individually or watch the show with the "conventional" edit.</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">originally titled Song For Sally on Chick’s </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Piano-Improvisations-1-Chick-Corea/dp/B0000262QX"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Piano Improvisations vol. 1</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After Gia’s performance, we took a break for dinner. I mentioned to Bill Rooney that the piano might need to be re-tuned after the loud performance. I was a bit worried the piano was going to be out-of-tune with my own performance coming up later that evening. Bill shrugged. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then Bill and I both went up to see Chick because we needed to try to switch the order of the next student performances to put the student drummer last since the drummer wanted to swap out cymbals and make other minor adjustments to Antonio’s kit. Chick wasn’t sure that was a good idea and seemed concerned about making any changes to Antonio’s kit. But it had already been cleared with Antonio and Bernie. Eventually Chick gave in and agreed to change the order to put the drummer last that night.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then Chick pulled Bill aside and I overheard him say that he thought he needed to get the piano tuned! Ha ha! Great minds think alike! Bill immediately whipped out his cell phone to start dialing the piano tuner, but Chick stopped him and said “wait, let me try it out first”. Chick tried playing the piano a bit, said it wasn’t too bad, and he could try to live with it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I headed off for dinner and then back to my room for another quick practice session on my keyboard prior to my performance. I was getting more anxious about it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They read through another original that Chick had written for Antonio’s solo album </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Migration-Antonio-Sanch%C3%A9z/dp/B000TP5SPI/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_1"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Migration</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This is a challenging but fun latin-flavored piece with Chick Corea’s modern jazz style stamped all over it. This is actually one of the few pieces I worked on a lot prior to the workshop. It’s a ton of fun to play this tune, but very difficult to play it well. Tons of chromaticism, quartal harmony, unexpected rhythms and kicks, and a lot of symmetrical harmony (diminished and whole tone scale movement in the right hand with quartal chord voicings moving around in the left hand). </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </b> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What I meant about the C-F#-B is more about the philosophical way Chick seems to think about it. For Bill Evans its always a D13 (or Ab7#9) chord. For McCoy, it's a scale. Sometimes, it seems Chick thinks of it as something else, more like Bartok's or Hindemith's music, where it would be only a quartal harmony that contrapuntally goes to other quartal harmonies, without implying chords formed by thirds (which is kind of difficult, because if the tritone resolves it will always imply a 7th chord). Maybe One for Antonio is not the best example of this, but if I knew how to explain or do this properly, I would be Chick Corea (which you might have already noticed not to be the case)! So, think for yourself, man!</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aha! Chick didn't think for himself. He just copied Bartok. Good catch! We should have gone to Bartok's master class instead. That section of Bagatelle#11 looks a lot like 1 For Antonio.</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s actually quite a bit of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k" target="_blank">Bela Bartok</a> influence in Chick’s writing. But it was fascinating when Fernando found that bars 26 - 29 of Bartok’s Bagatelle #11 were really quite similar to Chick’s quartal chord voicing and writing concepts. See </span><a href="http://homepage.tinet.ie/~braddellr/disso/ch4.htm#_ftnref25" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this link</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for more in-depth discussion and analysis of the music theory in those particular bars of the Bartok piece, which turns out to be very similar to the writing in 1 For Antonio!</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is a </span><a href="http://www.dr-carter.com/?p=106"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">podcast </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">where Scott is interviewed about jazz piano, perfect pitch, braille music, and accessibility technology.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">selected piece</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_What_(instrumental)"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So What</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Miles Davis)</span> </b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Similar to Chick’s formula for art (80% communication, 20% technical), he summarized his formula for getting that sound on the Moog as follows:</span> </b></b></b>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>modulation </i>wheel set to create a slow varying pitch -- either:</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more extreme wide ranges in pitch</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">typically a whole step </span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(my commentary) -- though it seems like I’ve heard Chick use an even greater range on the pitch bend wheel using the interval of a 4th or 5th</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE: Chick also said to take out any glide (portamento) on the keys themselves</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10% -- timbre and effects</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">doesn’t pay much attention to timbre</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tends to set it and forget it</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">typically just opens or closes filters to get a more mellow sound</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tends to like more mellow sounds these days compared earlier days in RTF, etc.</span></li>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See the Yamaha Motifator store for technical information on </span><a href="http://shop.motifator.com/index.php/voice-libraries/motif-xf/vintage/chick-s-rhodes.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick’s Mark V Sample Library for the Motif XF</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s an example of Chick playing both the Fender Rhodes and the Mini Moog synthesizer that I found in this </span><a href="http://gammagoblin.blogspot.com/2010/10/investigating-chick-corea-moog-rhodes.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blog </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">post where someone used some software called Sonic Visualizer to generate a melodic spectrogram on the right side of the video. The left side of the video shows Chick playing keyboards with Return To Forever (RTF). This clip is part of Chick’s solo in the RTF piece called Duel Of The Jester And The Tyrant originally recorded on the </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002DEBW/ref=dm_dp_cdp?ie=UTF8&s=music"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romantic Warrior</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> album. This video is taken from the </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Return-Forever-Returns-Montreux-Blu-ray/dp/B0024EWOYK"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Returns DVD/Blu-ray</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></b></b></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people have a prejudice against electronic sounds in music, but Chick just views synthesizers as yet another timbre and part of the musical palette available for composing and arranging. He sees everything from the human voice to other analog / digital instruments -- flute, synth, etc. as all being various different mechanical machines that can be used to product sound. It’s the player’s intention that creates the musical effect no matter what specific instrument is used.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil then asked Chick to demonstrate trying out various new patches and showing us what comes to him while trying out the different sounds. It was fascinating hearing Chick create new music on the spot simply based on the inspiration of the sound he was hearing on the keyboard.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the very end of the session, Neil asked Chick if he would sign his Moog. Chick said OK, took a black Sharpie™ and wrote his signature between the keyboard and the control panel. I’m sure the value of Neil’s Mini Moog Voyager just went up by a significant amount, but I doubt he’ll be selling it anytime soon!</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the break, I remembered to ask Chick something that I’ve always been curious about and forgot to ask him the last two times I met him, always remembering afterwards and thinking “darn, I missed my chance again!”. Somehow the thought popped into my head at just the right moment when Chick was standing right in front of me and so I went for it.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was this burning question of mine? I wanted to compare the size of my hands to Chick’s hands! So I asked Chick if he could hold up his hand. He raised his right hand up and I held up my left hand and placed it palm-to-palm matching fingers and thumbs. It was kind of an odd sensation having my hand pressed against his hand like that. How many people get to compare hand sizes with their life-long heros or idols? His hand was very warm -- almost hot to the touch, which kind of surprised me. </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> </div>
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Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-83522529456131575152012-09-29T21:40:00.001-07:002020-04-16T21:41:33.023-07:00A Week With Chick Corea: Part 7 -- Day 2<a href="http://mikeprigodich.blogspot.com/p/a-week-with-chick-corea.html">Table Of Contents</a><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6785627829376608" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I stayed up too late unpacking and setting up the keyboard in my room and mentally unwinding before going to bed, which made it hard to wake up early. But, I got up and met Fernando for breakfast as planned. We walked over to the mansion and there was a great breakfast buffet available for us. After breakfast, we walked over the the fitness center and each worked out for over an hour. It was good stress relief and great to get some physical activity with so much sitting around during the workshop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We headed back to our rooms to shower and change for the rest of the day. I wasn’t too eager to go to the jam sessions since I was tired and not very excited about informal jam sessions in general. Plus, since there was only one bass player and one drummer among the students but two different rooms for jam sessions with mostly keyboard / piano players, it didn’t seem like the jam sessions would work very well especially if the bass player and drummer weren’t there or weren’t together in the same room. I would have been more interested in trying to jam with Chick, John, and Antonio, but it didn’t sound like they would be around much during the morning jam sessions. Seems like mornings were there time to have a break from us, which is understandable. I needed the break from everyone too.</span><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6785627829376608" style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was another buffet for lunch outside on the terrace patio. It was fun to hang out with the other students and learn more about each other. After lunch, while waiting outside the ballroom for the next workshop session to begin, I met a new student (Mike Rihner) who showed up on Tuesday from New Orleans after missing all of Day 1 (and it turns out, also missing the Chick and Gary Burton show at Tanglewood on Sunday though he had tickets). Preparations and delays due to Hurricane Isaac had caused him to miss out on those two days. It was also difficult for him to fully concentrate on the </span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">workshop while worrying about friends and family and property back home.</span></b><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6785627829376608" style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.6785627829376608" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 32px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GULP! Freak Out Time</span></b><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.45470107812434435" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I forgot to mention that at the beginning of Day 1’s evening session Chick informed us that we would each play one piece of our own choosing with the trio beginning on Day 2 through Day 4. Originally they had planned for us to record a piece with the trio on Thursday afternoon, but quickly realized that they would need a lot more time than originally thought in order to give all 23 students a chance to perform with them. They wrote up a list of student names on a big piece of chart paper on an easel up front so we knew what order we would be called upon to play. The pressure was on for each of us to pick a piece and prepare for the experience. I was relieved to see that I wouldn’t perform until Day 3 (Wednesday). I felt a little bad for the four people that were suddenly going to be asked to choose and play something in just a few hours with little time to mentally prepare. But I was sure glad I had a little extra time.</span></b>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fernando Giuffrida interpreted John’s statement differently: </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He didn't mean exactly Chick's influence on other composers, but rather composers writing difficult stuff and telling him "look, this part is almost unplayable, but it might be OK for you, because you played with Chick Corea!".</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you don’t learn to speak with the right accent, it’s hard to understand you</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t just learn the notes -- learn the phrasing too!</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imitation</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding out what is behind the thinking</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Stay home and watch the kids”</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stay “inside” the changes</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decide to go out too when another musician plays outside</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lots of different rhythms all over Latin America</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R&B, blues, rock / pop / funk, etc.</span></li>
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Next, John asked Antonio to join him for a rhythm section master class.</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play together</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Balance</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What sounds good</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listen a lot</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experience</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play a lot with other people</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think about what’s best</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What’s best for this tune?</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What’s best for this millisecond?</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leave your ego somewhere else</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anything any player does </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">should</span><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> affect you while you are playing</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t just mimic each other all the time while playing</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can’t react to everything that’s happening</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can choose a different figure that complements things</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keep it clean to avoid getting too busy and overpowering </span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play busy for a while until you reach a target point</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People forget to be organic with all the clicks and quantizing today.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trust between players.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ex. Michael Brecker’s Quindectet album</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Copyist made a lot of mistakes in the string and woodwind parts</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No time to rehearse after dealing with all the mistakes in the parts</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live takes were full of problems that ruined whole takes</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lots of valuable studio time wasted</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Running out of time and budget</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Antonio had just come from a Pat Metheny session using a click and convinced Michael Brecker to let John and Antonio play the bass and drum parts to a click</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a result, woodwind parts could be picked from any take and used interchangeably</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using a click saved that recording</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[John] Odd meter playing</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play off clave instead of counting all the time</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use a groove pattern to play off</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Antonio] -- Play with good feeling</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[John] Performance demonstration</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plays in 7 without counting at all, just feeling groove</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Antonio] You have to learn odd time</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s done a lot these days.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[John] Hire a great drummer</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You don’t have a great band unless you have a great drummer.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Antonio] Working together with other musicians</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agree on how to feel time</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adapt</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go where it feels like going</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build something bigger together with a group vs. what you can do individually</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with John Patitucci (upright bass) and Antonio Sanchez (drums)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>selected piece</u>: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Wine_and_Roses_(song)"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Days Of Wine And Roses</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Henry Mancini)</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it’s nice to hear the melody stated in different ways</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the new starting time for the workshop loomed, we started walking back toward the mansion. As we were walking, we noticed we were trudging behind none other than <a href="http://chickcorea.com/" target="_blank">Chick Corea</a>, </span><a href="http://www.johnpatitucci.com/flash/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Patitucci</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="http://www.antoniosanchez.net/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Antonio Sanchez</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and Bill Rooney. When we arrived at the mansion, we saw Chick, John, Antonio, and Bill enter a side door instead of the main door where we’d entered during registration. We weren’t sure if we should follow them through that side door, but Chick turned around, smiled at us, and in a very welcoming manner, motioned for us to follow him through the side door into the ballroom where all the workshop sessions would take place. As we would soon find out, that’s was a taste of how Chick treated everyone during the workshop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were also some really bright lights being used by the camera men since the entire workshop was being filmed professionally with multiple cameras. The lights were shining in their eyes so they asked for lights to be dimmed. Dan Muse also brought Chick a pair of cheap sunglasses because Chick had forgotten his good sunglasses at Tanglewood the day before. Chick put on the cheap sunglasses and looked ridiculous. He joked that the sunglasses could be useful for doing Elvis impersonations, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE: Jimmy Collins was the lead camera guy. I found out that he had first started working with Chick by filming Chick’s week-long Bill Evans tribute <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Further-Explorations-Chick-Corea/dp/B005VR9AEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324491641&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Further Explorations</a> with Eddie Gomez and Paul Motion at the Blue Note in NYC.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE: I remember seeing Chick a few years ago at an outdoor festival with The New Trio with Avishai Cohen and Jeff Ballard. They came out on stage after a previous act with no time for a soundcheck. Chick tested the piano and found a spot in the keyboard range where there was some feedback in the PA system. Bernie wasn't running sound that day so he was at the mercy of the rock-n-roll sound engineers hired by the festival. Chick just said "ring it out" into the microphone and started improvising all over the piano keys but kept returning to the problem range to see if the feedback issue was resolved. Once it was resolved to his satisfaction, he seamlessly transitioned to the first tune in their set and the bass and drums joined in. It was impossible to tell where the soundcheck stopped and the concert began because the whole process was so musical.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually, it turns out they were lost during Matrix. There was a short Q&A session after the mini-concert where we could ask questions about what just occurred. So I asked if they were ever unsure of where each other was during the performance of Matrix. I assumed that I as a listener was the one who got lost and they as performers always knew exactly where they were and had confused me by extending phrases over the bar line or by playing with time. However, Chick immediately fessed up and said that he got lost in at least one spot in particular and kept extending phrases because he wasn’t sure where “one” was. Chick had to look over at Antonio for Antonio to communicate to him where beat “one” was. When Chick looked at Antonio, Antonio gave Chick a clear and strong declaration of where beat “one” existed and then Chick was able to sync back up with the rest of the trio. </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s challenging to play with rhythms and not get lost. Chick, John, and Antonio all took turns telling stories about situations where they or other musicians they were listening to got lost. They emphasized the need to trust each other on the bandstand and the need to NOT panic. By not panicking and trusting each other, the situation will probably eventually resolve itself without making the problem too obvious to the audience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Patitucci described a past concert where he and Chick were watching from the side of the state at a jazz festival and saw Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Wallace Roney, and Ron Carter get totally lost, but each player was so convinced they were right and the other were wrong that they each kept playing where they thought the music was without budging. They let the tension build for a long time while they stayed out of sync until finally they coalesced into the same time and place in the tune and resolved the musical disagreement. John described the whole experience as being very cathartic.</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Empower yourself</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Allow yourself the right to have your own tastes</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick wants us to go away inspired to do more</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Role as a teacher: Help us learn by example. Advocate or preach</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Demonstrate</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art is spiritual, not technical</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no one way to do it</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Textbooks are just opinions</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anything you see / hear is just opinion</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make your own decision / judgement</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be selective</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t evaluate it</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just write stuff down</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just “go”</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just play and record</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Try to admire what you do</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick’s wife </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_Moran"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gayle Moran Corea</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> reads great</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Too busy listening to </span><a href="http://www.johncoltrane.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coltrane</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> instead</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick likes how </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Jarrett"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keith Jarrett</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> clearly states a melody.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, Chick usually adds variety to stay interested and avoid cliche.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tried hard to just play the stock melody (laughed)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Played a particularly interesting set of 8 bars</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What effect do you want?</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set a goal of production -- that helps Chick write</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When you make it → that’s a win</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be tenacious enough to get there</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schedule your time</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Choose one troublesome phrase</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick made his own sign for the </span><a href="http://www.villagevanguard.com/html/history.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Village Vanguard</span></a><b><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></li>
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Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-59789945135816068912012-09-19T10:23:00.001-07:002012-09-19T10:39:03.753-07:00When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade<br />
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. How would you respond to a bunch of mass layoffs at your company? Here's how I responded when that happened to me a few years ago. I came home from work on the day that a huge chunk of my division received their pink slips and expressed my frustration with the way our group was being managed and treated by writing this tune called Chaos Theory. Wrote the whole tune in 30 minutes, I think. It was a great way to blow off steam. Composition as stress relief.<br />
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Here's the <a href="http://www.mikeprigodich.com/chord-charts/ChaosTheory.pdf" target="_blank">chord chart</a> so you can try to follow along, though the recorded arrangement follows a slightly different form. I haven't had time to update the chart with the new arrangement.<br />
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Studio version from my album <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mikeprigodich" target="_blank">A Stitch In Time</a>:<br />
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<br />Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-33260902756700037992012-09-18T03:27:00.000-07:002020-04-16T21:42:05.226-07:00A Week With Chick Corea: Part 5 -- Day 1 -- Arrival<a href="http://mikeprigodich.blogspot.com/p/a-week-with-chick-corea.html">Table Of Contents</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We drove first to Olmstead Manor around 9:00am to check-in to our rooms but neither my room nor Scott’s room was ready yet. Fernando offered to let us store our bags temporarily in his room, so we drove to Beecher’s Cottage where we were all staying and dropped off our bags. We caught a glimpse someone who looked an awful lot like Chick’s long time audio engineer Bernie Kirsh as he was leaving his room, walking down the hallway and exiting the building. Was it Bernie? We weren’t quite sure. Turns out it was since we later saw a whole lot of him during the course of the workshop that week. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scott Erichsen showed Fernando and me some of his braille music. It was quite fascinating to see Chick’s music converted to braille -- Scott had paid something like $250 to have some of the charts Chick sent in advance converted to braille so he didn’t have to learn everything by ear. Then it was time to head to the Mansion and register for the workshop. Let’s get this week started!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are currently living in an age where cell phones, cameras, and recording devices are everywhere. In order for this week to be successful and musically enriching for everyone, it is important to be respectful of Chick, John, and Antonio, as well as your fellow participants. We therefore respectfully request that during class time, rehearsals, and performances no cell phones, cameras, or recording devices are brought into the event space. In addition, in order to preserve the uniqueness and exclusivity of the event, we ask that participants do not record and post videos online or elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We sincerely appreciate your understanding and help in making this an unforgettable week for all involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kind Regards,</span></div>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Game maker</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Getting the idea down</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recording</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sketch</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lead sheet / Score</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instrumentation</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blend</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ranges / timbres / clefs</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layout</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Filling in the score</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Devices (Logic & Sibelius)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which piano or keyboard</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Techniques - sound, touch</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mirror image</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">88 drums</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gradients</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Understanding terms</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Always practice in tempo -- flow</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose / game</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communication / each player’s communication lines</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rehearsing</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Definitions</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Balance between the two</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why is communication more important</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is technical rendition</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communication to the audience</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Confront the space</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stage fright</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manners</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does it fit with melody and harmony</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Metronomes and clicks</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rapport with the audience</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Groove and feel</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose / the artist and the business</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Principles / ethics</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Music as a business / exchange and money</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organization / managers, agents, promoters</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why “Think for yourself?”</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inflow / outflow</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is the correct way?</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vision and the imagination</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose - definition</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Criticism and evaluation</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to study</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Primary and secondary information</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Theory and application</span></li>
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NOTE: <span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">I have dozens of pages of handwritten notes still remaining to type up and expand upon with added verbiage before my memories completely fade. I'm slowly working on it (except the day job and family life keeps interrupting!). </span><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">While Chick presented a great list of subjects in the course outline above, he didn't cover everything on that list in depth during the workshop and things were a little disorganized, loose, and free form. His teaching style involved improvising his lessons on the spot. That's what you get from a jazz musician, I guess. So I would have liked to have him cover more of the topics in depth, but he ran out of time and devoted more time to Q&A plus student performances took three days instead of the originally planned one day. Definitely room for improvement in the structure and format of the workshop, but I took what I could get! On the other hand, he was constantly readjusting what he presented based on how things were going during the workshop and he worked hard to try to tailor the workshop to the specific needs of the students who were present. Anyway, hopefully the rest of my notes will be posted in this blog over the next few days. </span></div>
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However, Chick does cover many of those topics in more depth in his book available for purchase on his web site (no longer available for purchase). I now have two copies of it since I already owned one for the last 10 years and got a second copy at the workshop as part of the course materials. I haven't decided it I want to hang on two both copies for some reason or not -- might be nice to keep a spare just in case I lose one somehow. It's an easy quick read -- more conceptual than technical. Stuff I learned at the workshop helped fill in some of the additional details or shed more light on the thinking behind things in the book by seeing some of the concepts demonstrated in real life.</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.7273px;">See <a href="http://chickcoreamusicworkshops.com/one-on-one/">http://chickcoreamusicworkshops.com/one-on-one/</a> for an online workshop that may include an updated copy of this book. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.7273px;">You might be able to view a copy here (though I'm not sure if this is a legal copy):</span></span><br />
<u style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px;">http://www.scribd.com/doc/217951398/A-Work-in-Progress-by-Chick-Corea-2#scribd</u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the schedule, orientation was supposed to start at 11:00am but things were a bit behind getting stuff set up in the ballroom and Chick’s piano was just getting delivered and still needed to be tuned. Prior to orientation, we stuck our heads into the ballroom and met Bill Rooney, Chick’s manager, as well as Bernie Kirsh, Chick’s audio engineer, and Dan Muse, Chick’s web designer and production management assistant among many other hats. No sign of Chick or Antonio yet, but we did see Antonio’s drum kit partially set up and we met John Patitucci as he was just arriving and getting his acoustic and electric bass rigs set up, talking over technical details with Bernie. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an aside, I was astounded when I said “hi” to Dan Muse, he immediately knew my name without any reminder. I asked him how he remembered by name and he said something like, “Well we just met last year.” Yeah, well that was a brief meeting many months ago in September 2011 back in Oregon at an RTF IV show. What an amazing memory! Well, to be fair, I had stayed in occasional e-mail contact with him since then, but still, I don’t know how he remembered me out of all the many Chick Corea fans I’m sure he interacted with over the last few months. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next day, I slept in after the long day of travel and three hour time difference jet lag and realized that they didn’t have a fitness room or gym (though I guess I could have gone to a nearby Gold’s Gym but decided to try delaying my workout till I got to my next hotel later that day). I also realized that I’d missed breakfast but by then it was time to catch a shuttle to Budget Rental Car to pick up my rental vehicle. The LazFly shuttle driver was a cool guy who was quite interested when he found out I was going to spend the week studying with Chick Corea. Had some good conversation with him on the ride to the rental car lot. The guy at the rental car front desk tried to hard sell me all sorts of upgrades and extra insurance. Got talked into a larger vehicle though since I knew I’d have luggage from three people the next day.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I drove from Hartford, CT to Lee, MA using my trusty GPS that I’d brought with me. Man, navigating strange new lands sure is easier these days. There were all sorts of detours on the drive to The Berkshires and back to Hartford the following weekend that would have gotten me totally lost with the printed directions I had and no good printed map at my disposal. The GPS was a lifesaver on several occasions this trip. I was slightly worried about using the toll roads (turnpikes?) on my route, but for some unknown reason, whenever I stopped to pay tolls, they just took my ticket and told me there was no charge. Don’t know if it was a special feature of the rental car that included the cost of the tolls, or maybe I just didn’t drive far enough to warrant a toll payment? Whatever. I was happy not to spend any more cash than necessary.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I arrived at the Super 8 in Lee, MA where I had reservations for the evening before the start of the workshop. I was starving since I hadn’t had lunch or breakfast, and since it wasn’t time to check-in yet, I wandered down to a cafe/deli down the street in search of some espresso and lunch. Apparently the East Coast is a little different than the Pacific Northwest, and I was sorely disappointed to realize they only had regular brewed coffee available and no espresso machine. But they had food and I needed the caffeine so I took what I could get, had lunch, and then headed back to the motel. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My reservation info said I could check-in as early as 3:00pm but my room wasn’t ready when I got there. I had wanted to try to work out before the Tanglewood concert that evening but they didn’t have a gym or fitness room either. They offered to let me use the staff restroom to change into my workout clothes, so I took them up on that and went for a long walk through town. Started receiving some Facebook chat messages from Scott Erichsen who was amazed I was out walking in the heat. It was warm and humid that week and he had just come from Australia where it was wintertime instead of summer. I got back from my walk, checked in to my room, showered, and changed for the concert. But the heat and humidity and recent physical activity left me drenched in sweat immediately, so I’m not sure my shower did any good.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I met Fernando Giuffrida and Scott Erichsen in the motel lobby around 5:30pm. To save some money, we decided to eat at a pizza joint down the street instead of paying the ridiculous prices to buy food at Tanglewood. Wow, those Tanglewood food prices were insane! Simple to-go sandwiches for the cost of a gourmet dinner at a fancy restaurant. The pizza joint had decent food but really slow service. We eventually got our food. I don’t remember the last time I ate with someone who was blind, though I remember I had a friend during college who was blind. Anyway, it was interesting to discover the challenges that eating can present to a blind person. The rest of us sighted people don’t realize how many things we take for granted. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After dinner, we drove a few minutes to Tanglewood, parked, and eventually found our way to Ozawa Hall with plenty of time to spare before the start of the concert. We were all sitting in separate seats but decided it would be easiest to meet up again at Scott’s seat after the show so he didn’t have to navigate a strange venue in a crowd of people.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was psyched to see this show with Chick and Gary Burton plus the Harlem String Quartet. Chick and Gary’s album from the early 1980’s called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lyric-Suite-Sextet-Chick-Corea/dp/B0000031SB" target="_blank">Lyric Suite for Sextet</a> is one of my all time favorite albums. Chick has written quite a bit of beautiful and interesting compositions and arrangements for string quartets over the years but rarely tours with a string quartet, so this was certainly a treat for me to hear and see that night. Plus, I’d heard about Tanglewood for years, but had never been there, so I was excited to finally see this mythical venue at long last.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fun story:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In an amazing coincidence, I ran into marimbist Mika (Yoshida) Stoltzman aka Mikarimba. She’s a great musician who has been performing recently with Steve Gadd and Eddie Gomez. She also is a huge Chick Corea and Gary Burton fanatic and even had the good fortune of having Chick write a piece for her to perform on marimba called “Marika Groove”. Here’s a preview (</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlM9l5zyI7A"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlM9l5zyI7A</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). She’s one of my random facebook musician friends and it was fun to see her and I was amazed she even recognized me as I walked past her to get something to drink before the concert and heard her yell out my name! BTW, I also ran into some of the other workshop attendees at the concert. It was fun to get to meet and see some of my new classmates!</span></b><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5374928975943476" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi Michael,</span></b></div>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5374928975943476" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are very pleased to announce that we've worked out the logistics to enable Chick Corea Productions, Chick's own company, to deliver the residency at the Cranwell Resort, in Lenox, MA from August 27 - 31, 2012.</span></b></div>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5374928975943476" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have retained a team of individuals whose business is the production of music workshops to handle all the remaining details, and to ensure that you have a fulfilling experience with Chick, John Patitucci and Antonio Sanchez. You will be hearing from the residency organizers very soon with the latest information. But, your travel plans should remain exactly the same as before.</span></b></div>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5374928975943476" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need to clarify that the National Guitar Workshop, the company that had originally engaged Chick for the workshop, is still filing bankruptcy. They will have nothing to do with this workshop now. It is entirely presented by Chick Corea Productions, Inc. Your hotel rooms and all meals will be provided, checking in on August 27th and checking out on August 31st.</span></b></div>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5374928975943476" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are not able to provide any refunds, as your payment was made to National Guitar Workshop, and not to Chick Corea Productions. Chick Corea Productions has no access to your payments. In order to present the workshop and not disappoint the attendees, Chick Corea Productions has elected to personally cover the costs of hotel rooms and meals, which were supposed to be paid for with the monies you paid to National Guitar Workshop.</span></b></div>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5374928975943476" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bottom line is that Chick cares deeply about his fellow musicians, and from the moment he heard about this situation, wanted nothing but to work out a way to spend these days with you as you had expected. He is really looking forward to seeing each and every one of you at this intimate workshop.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We look forward to seeing you all at Camp Corea in August!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Warm regards,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And then we received this series of e-mail messages from Chick himself!</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From: Chick Corea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:37 AM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Subject: From Chick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Friends,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So sorry for the mix up on this workshop. Fortunately we were able to solve the situation, and so have our get together as planned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm really looking forward to meeting you all and having some fun with The Muse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See you soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From: Chick Corea </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:01 PM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Subject: Lead Sheets for Chick Corea Workshop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Workshop Friends,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here's a bunch of lead sheets I found poking through my PDFs. Many are new pieces that I have never tried out. I thought it would be fun to work these out together and have them as discussion pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I realize that each one attending has different interests and different strengths and weaknesses - as we all do. So have a peek at these. And I'd like your feedback as to how easy or complex these pieces seem. I'll send some MP3s as well - the demos that I've made of some of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have any requests - please write in advance. Any songs you'd like to look into particularly?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is going to be a lot of FUN!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See you soon = all the best,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS: I will bring my laptop with tons of other PDFs - - so we will have plenty of lead sheet material to fool with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All compositions © Crystal Silence Music, Inc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:54 AM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Work-shoppers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are 3 pieces for you - scores and original Logic demos. We can look them over or not. I wrote them as a commission for a piano contest in Europe. Reflections was for "beginning students." "Afterthought" was for more advanced students. And "Contest" is a flamenco bulería for 2 pianos - - not so easy I would say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a gift for you to do with as you like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best - Chick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:59 PM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Subject: A few more pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ok Work-shoppers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the final installment for now. A few of my old jam tunes. A new piece John wrote for me (I'm honored) that we haven't tried yet. And a piece I wrote for Antonio's first solo outing plus 2 other never-tried originals of mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Send me feedback and requests if you like - - otherwise I'll see you there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best, Chick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS: we don't have to fool with any of this - - just suggestions > > ></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are receiving this message because you registered for Chick Corea's Music Workshop.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BTW, it was very cool to see copies of original handwritten charts for world-famous classic Chick Corea tunes such as Spain, 500 Miles High, and Armando's Rhumba. I was expecting to see professionally printed copies of those tunes since they've been published in various books, but was amazed to see that Chick had sent us copies of the original handwritten first drafts. We would soon find out during the workshop that Chick encourages studying the original scores of any piece of music in order to get as close as possible to the composer's original intent.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I sent in my requests to Chick:</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:57 PM</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi Chick,</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks for sending the charts! Time to lock myself in the woodshed and check them out in advance. Looking forward to this chance of a lifetime happening just a few weeks from now.</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1) Since you'll be there with the Dr. Joe trio, I'd love to work on the title track Doctor Joe. That's one of my favorite tunes from your Five Trios box set.</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2) I'm also interested in learning more about composition in general, so it'd be great to work through writing a new composition or two during the workshop.</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3) I'd love to get inside your head more as far as your melody development, both in your solos and your writing, as well as your approach to voicings, etc. </span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4) I know at least a couple of us at the workshop would be really interested in looking at the following tunes:</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5) A couple other songs I'm also interested in if there's time:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M i k e P r i g o d i c h</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.mikeprigodich.com</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick responded to our requests and said he’d bring some of the exact tunes I requested!</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From: Chick Corea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 12:48 PM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To All who responded to my PDF score mailings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks for all your emails. I appreciate your interest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Got it on all your comments and requests - - as you requested, I'll bring with me: "Yellow Nimbus," "Brasilia," "Folk Song," "Got A Match" and "Romantic Warrior." As I said I'll have my laptop with me loaded with PDFs of most of my scores and other music as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ok to write lyrics to any of my melodies - - although to publish a lyric to the song requires the composer's approval - but I think you know that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm looking forward to seeing you all at the workshop. It's going to be a fun hang.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the best,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:38 PM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Work Shoppers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks for all your responses. I was happy to hear from all of you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I realize by your responses that there are many and various interests and abilities and goals amongst us all. This is no surprise, and is as it should be. There were lots of other song requests in addition to the songs I sent. Combined, your interests span a pretty wide area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I will try to focus in on things that we're all interested in, of course. There will be opportunity each morning for hanging out and jam sessions if you like. Or you can hole up in your room and practice on your own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm bringing lots of lead sheets in PDF form - ready to send to the printer if we want to explore some particular standard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Safe journey to Lenox and see you soon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the Best,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Logistics</span></h1>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick Corea Productions hired some of the former National Guitar Workshop staff and contractors to assist with the Chick master class, so we started received communication from Allyson McFerren, someone we had been in contact with at NGW prior to the bankruptcy. Allyson set up a Facebook page for the workshop attendees so we finally had a chance to virtually meet and interact with some of the attendees prior to the meeting in person at the workshop. Through this page, several other workshop attendees found out about the Chick Corea and Gary Burton concert at Tanglewood and were able to buy tickets and arranged to meet up at the concert the night before the workshop started. One of the people I met this way was Scott Erichsen, a blind piano player traveling on his own all the way from Australia! I offered to give both Scott and Fernando a ride to and from Tanglewood and a ride to the Cranwell Resort the next morning. Also, both Scott and Fernando stayed at the same motel I’d found in Lee, MA the night before the workshop started in order to save a little money rather than spending extra to stay at the higher priced Cranwell Resort an additional night.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChickCoreaMusicWorkshop" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> that Allyson set up for us:</span><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChickCoreaMusicWorkshop"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/ChickCoreaMusicWorkshop</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was also relieved to see the following e-mail about the video and audio recording policy since I was a bit worried that people bringing a bunch of recording devices into the workshop would be distracting and I was pretty sure that Chick, John, and Antonio wouldn’t want random unapproved clips posted on-line for the world to see without their permission, as well as many of the other workshop attendees (myself included). I was happy to see that the workshop would have minimal distractions in order to focus on maximum learning opportunity. This would also help prevent sudden urges to tweet about every little thing that happened or post on-going commentary on Facebook every few minutes! This would also help preserve the exclusivity of the workshop for those people that had signed up for it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From: Allyson </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:51 PM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Subject: Chick Corea Workshop Recording Policy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Workshop Participants,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks once again for signing on for Chick's music workshop. Since the session is just a few weeks away, I'd like you to please take a look at the workshop's recording policy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the class times, and in rehearsals and performances, we ask that you do not record or post videos, do not take pictures or record and or post audio of the sessions online or elsewhere. If you must bring a cell phone into the sessions, please turn the ringer off and go out of the room if you need to use it. No cell phone usage inside any of the classes or sessions will be allowed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main reason for this rule is that we want to make sure that this is a fun and productive workshop, and we've found that recording interrupts the flow of the sessions. The lessons and performances are much more useful without these disruptions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You should know that there will be plenty of time to take photos with Chick, John and Antonio. They are all very happy to join you for pictures outside of the sessions and class time, and, if you like, sign autographs. There's no restriction on that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On top of that, we will be recording the final student concert professionally, and we'll be sending that performance to you afterward, along with a keepsake video we'll be shooting during the workshop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I really appreciate your understanding with this policy. If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to contact me directly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is going to be an unforgettable week — see you all soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Warmest regards,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick Corea Productions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P.S. Chick asked that you please bring blank manuscript paper and pencils for writing music during the classes. Thanks!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the way, I also sent off an e-mail asking about the availability of keyboards to practice on. Here’s what I got in response:</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hello Mr. Prigodich,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, keyboards will be available for you to use while at the workshop. We do not have enough to set one up in everyone's guest room and in the main classroom, so if you'd like to practice in your room, you will have to bring it back and forth. But again, we will be providing you with a keyboard, stand, and music stand for the event. I hope that makes your travel plans a bit easier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Check-in will be between 9am-11am on Monday. And check-out will be around 12 noon on Friday. I will be sending a schedule to you very soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Between my day job testing storage software for Dell and my family life and my own part-time self-employment moonlighting as a jazz musician and bandleader, I didn’t practice the music that Chick sent us in advance of the workshop nearly as much as I would have liked to. I felt under-prepared for the workshop. Part of it was being busy with work and preparing for my own gig a week before the workshop started, though I felt underprepared for my own gig too since I tried to spend time practicing Chick’s music instead of my music. The other part was simply that I felt more than a bit intimidated looking at all the complicated new music that Chick sent us. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m a poor sight-reader. I’m mostly self-taught as a musician and haven’t spent the time I need to improve my sight-reading skills. Some of the music that Chick sent was very high level piano scores commissioned for piano competitions along with other challenging through-composed pieces. The simple chord chart lead sheets with melody and chord symbols are challenging enough for me to read, but throw two staff piano music in front of me with written out treble and bass clef and I start to freak out. I can read, but I read very slowly with lots of mistakes. I basically have to slowly memorize pieces in order to be able to play them anywhere near full speed. It has been and continues to be a major handicap in my playing abilities. I need to spend some serious time improving my sight-reading one of these years. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, I played a gig with my band on Friday, August 17, 2012 at a jazz club in NW Portland, OR called Ivories. I actually forgot how to play two of my own songs on that gig after spending so much time working on Chick's tunes instead of my tunes! How embarrassing! One of the tunes I forgot how to play was Armando’s Birthday, the tune I’d written for Chick! Good grief! Oh well, things happen on live gigs. That’s just how things go sometimes. Especially when I have to work my day job sitting in a cubicle all day and drive straight to my gig and have to start playing music without having any chance to warm up or practice the day of the gig. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, enough of my whining and excuses. The days till the workshop kept disappearing and before long, it was time to pack and there was no time left to cram practice time at the piano before catching my flight.</span><br /><hr />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 32px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><a href="http://mikeprigodich.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-week-with-chick-corea-part-4-getting.html">Up Next: Part 4 -- Getting There</a>Mike Prigodichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001694811286615389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625610235987630539.post-3095334398410215012012-09-18T02:29:00.001-07:002020-04-16T21:43:14.177-07:00A Week With Chick Corea: Part 2 -- Disappointment<a href="http://mikeprigodich.blogspot.com/p/a-week-with-chick-corea.html">Table Of Contents</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Looks like I won't see Chick Corea in August and I probably won't get my money back -- the company went bankrupt. I wonder if I can get any of my car rental, air fare, hotel, and tanglewood concert ticket money back. I could have paid for camp insurance which might have protected my money, but it was additional expense that I didn't think necessary at the time. Hind sight is 20/20. See below for details. That's thousands of dollars down the drain. I don't have extra cash to hire a lawyer and hiring a lawyer could end up costing even more than what I already lost with little chance of recouping the cost.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of the workshop attendees were devastated by this horrible news. However, none of the attendees knew how to contact any of the other attendees to commiserate. Some of us started searching the internet for various forums to attempt to gather more information and band together to attempt to get our money back. Some of us also started contacting Chick Corea Productions staff to attempt to gain more information through Chick’s organization to see if they had any leverage or if there was any chance that the workshop could still proceed in spite of the bankruptcy. My credit card company gave me a temporary credit but the credit was eventually reversed when they received no response from National Guitar Workshop to their investigation inquiry. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was randomly contacted by a guy in Brazil (Fernando Giuffrida) who was also planning on attending the workshop asking if I would keep him in the loop about any potential class action measures since as a foreigner he thought he would have an even harder time getting his money back than the local US citizens might. Fernando found me by Googling for information about the workshop and bankruptcy and saw one of my posts on The Gear Page forum. The Gear Page was a site that I saw mentioned on the National Guitar Workshop Facebook page as a place where people could discuss the NGW bankruptcy issue. Found out that a lot of other NGW students and teachers were also affected by various other workshop cancellations due to the bankruptcy. There were many summer camps for kids as well as other master classes by Pat Metheny and other world class artists. Turns out that Fernando is an endocrinologist who also happens to be a great piano player and just about as big of a Chick Corea fanatic as I am. One thing led to another and I mentioned my music and albums and he proceeded to buy my studio album off of iTunes and ended up loving it and becoming a fan of mine. Hey, at least something good came out of this mess, right? </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I contacted Chick’s tour manager Kristopher Campbell who I’d met in December 2011 at Chick’s gig in Seattle (with Brian Blade and Hans Glawishnig). Kris said he wasn’t involved with the workshop but he would let Chick and the rest of Chick’s staff know about the terrible situation. </span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BTW, here's how I met Kristopher Campbell. I had written Chick a new tune called <a href="http://www.mikeprigodich.com/chord-charts/Armando%27sBirthday.pdf" target="_blank">Armando’s Birthday</a> in honor of Chick’s 70th birthday since I was bummed not to be able to attend any of Chick’s month-long birthday celebration at the Blue Note in NYC in November 2011. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I saw that Chick was going to be in Seattle a week afterwards, I drove up to see the show and had the chance to hand-deliver Chick the sheet music after the gig. He asked if I had an audio recording of the song, but I didn’t have a hard-copy of the recording with me, so he introduced me to his tour manager Kristopher Campbell to get his e-mail address so I could send an electronic version of the audio for Chick to hear. I sent the audio and video to Kristopher to pass along to Chick, but never heard any feedback from Chick. But half a year later, that video got posted on Chick’s Facebook page for Chick’s 71st birthday by someone at Chick Corea Productions. That was pretty cool.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are contacting you on behalf of Chick Corea Productions regarding the National Guitar Workshop program scheduled for August 27-31, 2012 at the Cranwell Resort in Lenox, MA. Unfortunately, we have just been informed that National Guitar Workshop has ceased operations and will be filing a bankruptcy petition. National Guitar Workshop has agreed to send this email to you on Chick Corea Production's behalf. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick was engaged by National Guitar Workshop to participate in the workshop, and has no control over the business or operations of National Guitar Workshop. We understand that you were looking forward to attending the workshop and are going to make every effort to see that the workshop proceeds as planned. We are working on the details and hope to have further information for you in a few days. We will be in communication with you as soon as we have further details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An NEA Jazz Master, 16-time Grammy winner, prolific composer and undisputed keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after four decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From straight ahead to avant-garde, bebop to fusion, children’s songs to chamber music, along with some far-reaching forays into symphonic works, Chick has touched an astonishing number of musical bases in his illustrious career while maintaining a standard of excellence that is awe-inspiring.”</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick Corea will give a five-day master workshop next summer in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. The workshop is for intermediate to advanced instrumentalists and will include performances by Corea and his guests, master classes, jam sessions and more. </span></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information or to register, call 800-234-6479 (after Jan. 2) or send an email to:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #047391; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">david@guitarworkshop.com.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I called up David Smolover at National Guitar Workshop in December before the official registration period began the following January, and he graciously let me register in advance. David also told me over the phone that Chick would be performing at Tanglewood with Gary Burton and the Harlem String Quartet the night before the workshop began and he expected many of the workshop attendees to arrive a day early in order to attend that concert.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cost was pretty steep though -- nearly $5,000 including room and board in addition to the cost of air travel, ground transportation, the Tanglewood concert, and additional lodging costs before and after the workshop. I had to make an initial down payment of 50% of the total cost when I first registered in order to reserve my spot, and then pay the remaining 50% by May 1st of 2012. I made sure I made my payments on time and booked all of my reservations early because there was no way I wanted to risk missing out on this chance of a lifetime. I received receipts from NGW confirming my registration and payments and was assured that they would be in communication with more details as we drew closer to the date of the workshop. I was psyched and eager to go. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><hr />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The National Music Workshop proudly presents Chick Corea in his first-ever week-long residency to share his music and insights into jazz performance, improvisation and composition with intermediate to advanced jazz musicians on all instruments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chick will be joined by renowned bassist John Patitucci and drum guru Antonio Sanchez for a week of musical explorations into the world of the music of Chick Corea. Students will experience:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The opportunity to perform and record a piece written by Chick Corea exclusively for the participants of the program with Chick Corea, John Patitucci and Antonio Sanchez performing and leading the group</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend a week of musical immersion with Jazz Master Chick Corea and his trio of John Patitucci and Antonio Sanchez.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This incredible five-day event is held at the elegant Cranwell Resort, Spa, & Golf Club located in picturesque Lenox, Massachusetts. Minutes from the Tanglewood Music Center, the resort features luxurious accommodations, gourmet meals and an attentive staff that will pamper you at every turn. This location is a perfect place to bring a spouse or friend and turn this wonderful week into something that you’ll be glad you shared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spend five days studying with Jazz Master Chick Corea, renowned bassist John Patitucci and drum guru Antonio Sanchez in the beautiful Berkshires. This exclusive event is open to all intermediate and advanced jazz instrumentalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Guitar Workshop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(800) 234-6479</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your immersive week will include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One-on-one master classes with Chick Corea and the trio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Detailed analysis of Chick Corea compositions, hand-selected by Chick for this workshop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Insight into Chick Corea's approach to improvisation and jazz performance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Musical interaction with Chick, John and Antonio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two intimate concert performances by Chick, John and Antonio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jam sessions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The opportunity to perform and record a piece written by Chick exclusively for the participants of the program with Chick Corea, John Patitucci and Antonio Sanchez</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keyboard virtuoso Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. Learn more at ChickCorea.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Presented by National Guitar Workshop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club is a premier all-season resort snuggled in the heart of the Berkshires region in Western Massachusetts. Here you'll enjoy one of the largest spas in the Northeast, luxury accommodations, fine dining, outstanding amenities and exceptional service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information about the Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club, please visit their website.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cranwell.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.cranwell.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://mikeprigodich.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-week-with-chick-corea-part-2.html">Up next: Part 2 -- Disappointment</a></b></h3>
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