Summer Practice and AMA (ask me anything)
dropbox is updated
For the last two or three years I have been working out of a famous book of piano exercises by Ernst von Dohnányi. Frankly I wish I had looked at them when I was much younger. A few significant pages have been added to my collection of educational pdfs.
Ethan Iverson Teaching PDFs [dropbox link]
includes
Original Sheet Music of Two Dozen Jazz Standards
Theory of Harmony
Bird is the Word
Doodlin’
Core Repertoire
21 Cramer Studies Taught by Beethoven
Bud Powell Trifecta
Trane ’n Me (by Andrew White)
Dohnanyi first three pages (polyphony) + accents (bebop)
(If you want to share the dropbox further that’s fine, just encourage the recipients to sign up for Transitional Technology.)
Apologies for unreturned emails and ignored direct messages. It just gets away from me. However, the algorithm likes comments, and thus I do respond to comments. Ask me anything, or just comment. Next week I’ll be posting a bit about James P. Johnson, connected to my solo gig at the Jazz Gallery.
I always learn a lot from your writing and your music. I had a chance to thank you in person in between sets one night at Black Cat in SF for your generosity in making your educational material available (charts, background notes, etc.), but it merits saying again: thank you for your generosity!
I just wanted to say thanks for pointing me to your Crimes of the Century essay. I have been devouring the books listed, and the essay is being passed around the Criminal Justice division of my agency. The Parker novels, Ellroy and George Higgins have been highly praised here by others.