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RE: Help--Jazz audition on Thursday!

Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-09-25 23:31

The "solo ad lib" does mean improv. I don't think they'd expect someone who's never played jazz before to improv at an audition- it's pretty hard until you get the hang of it (I still haven't). You can ignore the chord changes, they're for improvising- you go through the piece again improving off those chords. It doesn't effect trills. As for the swing thing, two swing eighth notes are more like a triplet with the first two notes tied together than a dotted eighth- sixteenth.

The key to playing jazz is listening to pick up the style. I don't know enough about the Dixieland style to recommend CDs, but I'm sure someone here does. Get a good CD and try to imitate the style of playing. Or just turn on your local jazz radio station and listen for a while. Good luck!

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