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		<title>Two Views of a Scale</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2022/04/scale-circle-of-fifths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 04:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside The Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[circle of fifths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can think of a scale as a kit for making melodies… or as a way of defining harmony. Unfortunately, all the ways we have of depicting scales are well-suited to the former, and poorly suited to the latter. This post aims to rectify that.]]></description>

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		<title>Rootless Scales &#038; Phantom Modes</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2021/09/rootless-scales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 06:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmony]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scales offer a palette of notes to choose from. And they always contain the root. So, what if we don't want to play the root?! We discuss the possibilities of rootless scales…]]></description>

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		<title>“Minor Major” Chords</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2020/10/minor-major/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[harmony]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[minor major]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A beautiful and important sound with a confusing name.]]></description>

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		<title>Using Zoom in Music Lessons &#038; Clinics</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2020/05/zoom-for-music-lessons-clinics/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2020/05/zoom-for-music-lessons-clinics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2020 04:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guide to using zoom for music lessons, classes and workshops.]]></description>

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		<title>Some Fun with Piano Harmonics</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2020/04/piano-harmonics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overtones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I played the following notes as a chord on the piano… There is no major third in the chord, but it sounds major… Here's why.]]></description>

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		<title>Jazz Harmony &#8211; You Have the Answers</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2020/01/jazz-harmony-you-have-the-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 01:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jazz standard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students often ask me why they should use one sort of chord rather than another – say, a C7(b9) as opposed to a C9. Music theory tells us lots about the differences between chords. But there is an indispensable way of answering these questions that’s more direct, and people often overlook it.]]></description>

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		<title>Approaches &#038; Enclosures</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2019/07/approaches-enclosures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 03:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bebop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromatic approach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eighth note lines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enclosure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These melodic devices have been a mainstay of jazz lines ever since bebop. This article presents them, discusses how &#038; why they work and why we need to single them out for practice, and gives a sequence of exercises for integrating them into our ears and fingers to use for improvisation.]]></description>

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		<title>Better Than Practicing in 12 Keys</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2019/04/deep-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12 Keys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ear training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Efficient Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[improvisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practicing music in all 12 keys is a time-tested way to integrate musical ideas into your vocabulary. Here’s a variant on the approach that not only ensures that you learn the material at a deeper level that’s more useful for improvisation, but actually speeds up the learning process too.]]></description>

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		<title>“Take The A Train” Chord Changes</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2019/01/take-the-a-train-chord-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[altered dominant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie's Tune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[five of five]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jazz standard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secondary Dominant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at the chord changes of Duke Ellington's signature tune and all the ways they show up elsewhere… including some surprises…]]></description>

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		<title>The “Neutral” Scale</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2018/10/neutral-scale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inverted interval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[major]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neutral interval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neutral third]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quarter tone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symmetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A journey into quarter tone harmony lets us see the modes of the major scale from a new perspective.]]></description>

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		<title>Music on Hold</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2018/08/music-on-hold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Musings about the music that drives us crazy (with a couple examples).]]></description>

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		<title>Minor Fourths, Major Fifths</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2018/01/minor-fourths-major-fifths/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2018/01/minor-fourths-major-fifths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music terminology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nomenclature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perfect fifth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perfect fourth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all been taught that most intervals are either major or minor… but that unisons, fourths and fifths are special intervals, considered “perfect.” Let's question that for a minute. Here's an alternative way of thinking about it that I think makes more sense…]]></description>

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		<title>Music and an Accident of Mathematics</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2017/10/music-math-coincidence/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2017/10/music-math-coincidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2017 18:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[circle of fifths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coincidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intonation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[temperament]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that virtually all of the music we listen to hinges on a big mathematical coincidence? Namely, that two to the 7/12 power is approximately equal to 1.5. Seriously. Let me show you what I mean…]]></description>

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		<title>Practicing Slow II: What Video Games Teach Us</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2017/02/practicing-slowly-2-video-games/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2017/02/practicing-slowly-2-video-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2017 23:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muscle memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's another compelling reason why musicians ought to practice slowly.  To understand it best, consider an analogy to video games. Not playing them… designing them.]]></description>

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		<title>Unlikely Inspiration from Coltrane</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2017/01/unlikely-inspiration-from-coltrane/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2017/01/unlikely-inspiration-from-coltrane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early recording]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An early recording from John Coltrane is inspiring because it so compellingly debunks any notion that he was born to be a musical genius. His brilliance was hard won through intense practice.]]></description>

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		<title>Remembering the Modes</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2016/08/remembering-the-modes/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2016/08/remembering-the-modes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A different, very useful way of ordering the modes of the major scale in your mind… and a trick for remembering the modes in that sequence…]]></description>

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		<title>Practicing Slow</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2016/07/practicing-slow/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2016/07/practicing-slow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eighth note lines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a tip for when you’re trying to improve your improvisation but you’re stuck: Learn to play so it sounds like you’re moving through molasses. Let me explain how &#038; why it works…]]></description>

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		<title>Pentatonic Scales: A&#160;Deeper Look</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2016/01/pentatonic-scales/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2016/01/pentatonic-scales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2016 06:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music Theory]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antonjazz.com/?p=1226</guid>

		<description><![CDATA[Pentatonic (five-note) scales are the basis for simple folk melodies and nursery rhymes all around the world. So how is it that they can be used in jazz so powerfully, to create so many colors and degrees of tension and dissonance? Let's take a look.]]></description>

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		<title>Audiation</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2015/08/audiation/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2015/08/audiation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2015 01:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An extremely useful word for something we're all familiar with.]]></description>

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		<title>Sus Chords part II: Their Uses</title>
		<link>https://antonjazz.com/2015/07/sus-chord-uses/</link>
		<comments>https://antonjazz.com/2015/07/sus-chord-uses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 01:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Music Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chord changes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post called "<a href="/sus-chords/">Understanding Sus Chords</a>" I discussed suspended chords—what they are and how to think of them. In this one we look at their uses in songs.]]></description>

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