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Music for the Mind
Music for the Mind is a 6-week online workshop for instrumentalists presented by the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation.
This course if free and presented LIVE on Monday evenings, 6-7pm, from March 30 - May 4, 2020. To tune in live via Zoom, click https://zoom.us/j/528068789…
Click the links below to access recordings of the workshops and the handouts associated with each workshop.
Week 1 – Scales and Chords: The Building Blocks of Music
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Major, minor, modes, pentatonic, & Freygish scales; chords & arpeggios
Week 2 – How to Practice
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Taking it apart, fixing the pieces, and putting it back together
Week 3 – How to Improvise, part 1
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Scales and chords, using your ears
Week 4 – How to Improvise, part 2
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Reading chord symbols, steps to improvising over chord changes
Week 5 – Reading rhythms and sightreading
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Tricks to sightreading in 6/8, reading swing rhythms, how to sightread better
Week 6 – The 65th Street Klezmorim Presents Klezmorim (Instruments of Klezmer)
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A discussion about Klezmer music with instrument demos, questions and answers, and good company
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