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FROM THE ARCHIVES

…a growing repository of reference materials: articles, guides, notes, memoranda, aides-mémoires, elucidations, elaborations, arrangements, transcriptions, and sundry supplementals to support your study in between lessons.

Foundations

Getting startedChord & scale basicsHow to build chordsChord qualities: major, minor, and moreOn how chords and scales are the sameModes of major scalesMajor and minor keysOn how chords move

Arrangements

Joe Hisaishi: One Summer's Day (from Spirited Away)Joe Hisaishi: Merry Go Round of Life (from Howl's Moving Castle)Joe Hisaishi: The Wind Forest (from My Neighbor Totoro)

Transcriptions

Red Garland: Trane's BluesRed Garland: Please Send Me Someone to Love
Wynton Kelly: Freddie FreeloaderWynton Kelly: Sweet PumpkinWynton Kelly: SassyWynton Kelly: Swingin' Till the Girls Come HomeWynton Kelly: On Green Dolphin StreetWynton Kelly: Kelly Blue
Barry Harris: Chasin' the BirdBarry Harris: Moose the MoocheBarry Harris: Woody'n youBarry Harris: No Name BluesBarry Harris: Tea for Two
McCoy Tyner: Alone TogetherMcCoy Tyner: Soul EyesMcCoy Tyner: InceptionMcCoy Tyner: Passion Dance
Phineas Newborn: Sugar RayPhineas Newborn: Reflection
Oscar Peterson: Chicago (arr.)Oscar Peterson: Thag's Dance (arr.)
Donald Byrd: Omicron

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