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	<description>tips &#38; tricks for the rhythmically &#38; harmonically-challenged</description>
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		<title>Analyses of Minor Key Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought that the coming Chinese New Year has brought some inspiration to my current blog post! Well, to be specific it&#8217;s the little ditty which I know only as &#8220;Gong Xi, Gong Xi, Gong Xi Ni-ah! Gong Xi, Gong Xi, Gong Xi Ni!&#8221; And the reason I&#8217;m writing about this is because&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Legendary Lewis: Jazz pianist writes what he knows</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Piano Potpourri]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramsey Lewis is exactly where you expect him to be &#8211; at his grand piano, tinkering with his latest composition. &#8220;Composing makes me feel like I&#8217;m 12 again,&#8221; said the celebrated jazz pianist, who turned 75 on May 27. &#8220;When I get up in the morning, I feel giddy and I&#8217;m so happy to get&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz Up Your Rhythms &#8211; Rhythmically Rephrasing Melody Lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[I Got Rhythm!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time around I would like to tackle one of the more important elements in playing a jazz tune, that is, to rhythmically rephrase an existing melody. If you play from lead sheets, you will often notice that the melody line to a number of jazz standards usually consists of quarter and half notes, e.g.&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons &#8211; A Poem by Diane Wakoski</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 12:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diane Wakoski]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you know by now poems relating to the piano intrigue me. So it&#8217;s no wonder that when I chanced upon this one by a Michigan State University English professor during the period of Mother&#8217;s Day, I had to blog about it. Personally, I thank both my parents especially my late father for piano&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Spare a Chord or two or more, Please?: Borrowed Chords or Modal Interchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[True]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back!  And I need to borrow something&#8230;.No worries, I&#8217;m referring to our little bag of harmonic tricks. I hope by now you have gone through the diatonic triads and 7ths of both the major and minor scales (all three variations). In this post, I&#8217;m going to show you how you can spice up your&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Piano &#8211; An Animated Short by Aidan Gibbons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Comptine d'un autre été: l'après midi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still trying to get back to posting my original articles. So, in the meantime, enjoy this animated short of an old man playing the piano (Yann Tiersen&#8217;s evocative and reflective &#8220;Comptine d&#8217;un autre été: l&#8217;après midi&#8221;) while reminiscing about his life&#8230; Related Blogs]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Lessons &#8211; A Poignant Poem by American Poet Laureate Billy Collins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy a good poem once a while. So I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon one that&#8217;s on piano lessons and then some &#8212; and what more penned by a renown poet! It&#8217;s been said that a picture paints a thousand words. Well, sometimes words paint beautiful landscapes too! Hope you take the time&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Sight Reading &#8211; Is it Important For Pop And/Or Jazz Pianists?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Jazz For You]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chord symbols]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicole H. E. Lee Sight reading is the ability of a musician to spontaneously play any piece of music put in front of him/her. Traditionally, to be able to read music, as in the actual standard music notation, is the only way to learn a musical instrument. In the case of piano lessons, every&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Harmonic Rhythm &#8211; The Natural Flow of Chord Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmm&#8230;the blog post title sounds like a mashup of my two favorite musical elements! Well, it is&#8230;but leaning more towards the rhythmic aspects of when and where chords move. In other words, harmonic rhythm refers to the rate of chord change or how often one chord progresses to another. Most songs or compositions are written in&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Mehldau &#8211; Committed Improviser</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pianist Brad Mehldau doesn’t so much stride between jazz, classical music and pop as swirl and eddy between them, absorbing traces as he goes. The American’s even-tempered independence reflects early classical training; his renowned interpretations of the jazz repertoire stem from a high school obsession. And he still loves pop and rock and roll. “I&#8230;]]></description>
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