Dirty loops was a big influence on a lot of my thinking when they first came out with their fusion tinged arrangements of pop songs, and. His diverse professional expertise includes releasing eight cds, recording two live fortv concerts that are airing around the world, and producing for many other musicians. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Nov 09, 2016 the reharmonization fit the new style, and successfully transformed the track into a very uplifting and dancefriendly version. It syncs content to your ipod, iphone, and apple tv. Advanced reharmonization part 1of 2 cocktail piano lessons. The techniques described here are often skills which novice jazz musicians already. This intense 4hour experience will give you a huge toolbox filled with things that will take your music to a new level. To create an artful and creative reharmonization, one must follow a general set of guidelines based on which system of reharmonization you choose. Abstract reharmonization, also know as chord substitution, is one of the eternal subjects in personalizing the thousands of standard tunes and originals played by working jazz musicians and amateurs all over the world. Reharmonization is a great way to add variation to both your solos and your interpretation of a song, for example in a chord melody arrangement. It is a skill that you must learn if you hope to work through many of gregs more advanced courses such as arranging, reharmonization, and accompanying. Lead me to calvary reharmonization demo with greg howlett.
Reharmonization secrets part 1 taking the harm out of reharm by ted eschliman those who seek harmony the very fact that youre reading this suggests you have an interest in making your music more interesting. Safedatasoft share skripts, updates, widget, programs, installs. When arranging music that has already been written by another artist or composer, in a way that. Reharmonization is gregs passion and this is his favorite course. Online jazz piano reharmonization lessons try free. On a copy of the chart, analyze all the chords with roman numerals dont write 7 next to the roman numerals with the following exceptions. What we want to explore in this issue is ways to add rich alternate harmonic progressions, or reharmonization. Your music, tv shows, movies, podcasts, and audiobooks will transfer automatically to the apple music, apple tv, apple podcasts, and apple books apps where youll still have access to your favorite itunes features, including purchases, rentals, and imports.
Aug 23, 2017 greg howlett is a christian concert pianist, educator, and recording artist. Reharmonization is the musical equivalent of a new paint job on an old car. Reharmonization is greg s passion and this is his favorite course. Depending on the version of itunes that you have, there are a few ways to. Mar 09, 2016 advanced reharmonization is really about trying out a bunch of various possibilities, learning about the relationships between chords and chord progressions, and choosing options that change the original presentation of the same melody. Reharmonization and back cycling for chord melody playing. On this page you can read or download reharmonization techniques pdf in pdf format. Reharmonization of standard tunes archive sax on the. Greg still supports customer questions and will even answer presales questions. Greg howlett is a concert pianist, writer and arranger of music and a music educator. That is not to say that every tune should have 20 chords in the first measure. The basic idea behind reharmonization is taking a lead phrase and modifying it slightly so that it fits in to a completely different key and scale all.
All of gregs music is still available on all the normal streamingdownload services such as pandora, itunes, amazon, and spotify. Nov 15, 2017 this segues directly to the transposed asection, where i took a few subtle liberties with the melody in bars 1, 2, and the second ending to make things more jobimesque, but t. Greg howlett is a christian concert pianist and has recorded ten albums and two fortv live concerts current airing around the world. Another common use of reharmonization is to introduce a new section in the music, such as a coda or bridge. The software allow export the piano scores as midi or pdf too. Charting is the process of identifying the harmony that is being used in a song. Read 600 articles and watch videos by greg on music topics such as arranging, reharmonization, and performance as well as his musings on life and business.
Track deconstruction lets take a closer look at the key musical concepts and explore the tonal center, how to change the tonal center, and how to reharmonize the melody based on the new tonal center. Basically our software accepts a midi file as entry, convert it to a piano score and after you can select among 4 reharmonization techniques to reharmonize the score and generate different versions of it. If you dont see any interesting for you, use our search form on bottom v. Reharmonization techniques add new life to old songs and. To reharmonize something is to alter the harmony, and when we talk about harmony were really talking about chords. Learning jazz reharmonization techniques is not only a great way to develop jazz comping skills but it also expands application of jazz substitutions and superimpositions reharmonization techniques are often required for solo jazz guitar arrangements to create interest, interpretation and originality.
Another common use of reharmonization is to introduce a new section in the music, such as a coda or bridge reharmonizing a melody. The reharmonization fit the new style, and successfully transformed the track into a very uplifting and dancefriendly version. Reharmonization is my passion and this is my favorite course. In some ways reharmonization can be confusing, but just like anything else in jazz, you can use a few formulas to get started and. The melody is the most recognizable part of the song, the part that the listener walks away humming. There are three major sections in this course, because reharmonization occurs in three ways. Lets say that a friend of yours show you a song he did. If any itunes updates are available, click install. Print and download in pdf or midi gourmet race arranged by.
It is a skill that you must learn if you hope to work through many of greg s more advanced courses such as arranging, reharmonization, and accompanying. If you dont have itunes installed on your computer, get it from the microsoft store windows 10 or download the latest version from apples website. Chordal reharmonization janek gwizdalas bass studio. Greg howlett is a christian concert pianist and recording artist. Reharmonization is the process of using chord substitutions to alter the harmony of a composition. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Its kind of a funny word when you first encounter it. Reharmonization with chord progressions simplifying theory. Chord progressions and substitutions jazz reharmonization.
Looking up by greg howlett on amazon music unlimited. Continuing our study about reharmonization, we arrived at cadences. Typically, a melody is reharmonized to provide musical interest or variety. In this video i am going to give you some basic reharmonization ideas to use, it is pretty basic and stuff you might know already but not use like this or maybe have played examples off.
Jan 01, 20 listen to your favorite songs from looking up by greg howlett now. Listen to your favorite songs from solace by greg howlett now. You will learn to make a creative judgment about how much or how little to change a song and then make logical, creative choices to achieve that outcome. Reharmonization is the art of modifying the harmonic structure of a song. Hearing that melody in a fresh harmonic context can bring new meanings to the theme, provide variety for an arrangement, underscore lyrics, and even totally change the mood of the piece. In practice, reharmonize is taking a song which is already done and change its harmony keeping its original melody. He began his music journey at the age of eight when he started playing for his small church near kelso, tennessee. But there are nevertheless rules, techniques and ideas which you can employ to create a smooth and jazzy sounding reharmonization of an existing song. Update to the latest version of itunes apple support. All music on this page is available instantly upon purchase as a download and will be available for you to reprint in the future when you log into your account. We still provide the same customer service for your purchases here that we always have. Reharmonization is the technique of taking an existing melodic line and altering the harmony that accompanies it. Reharmonization techniques teaches where and how to approach changing the harmonic form, especially in the context of historical stylized treatments.
I found him while searching for free sheet music online in 2010 or 2011 i think. This segues directly to the transposed asection, where i took a few subtle liberties with the melody in bars 1, 2, and the second ending to make things more jobimesque, but t. Listen to your favorite songs from looking up by greg howlett now. Reharmonization throws some or all of the original changes out the window. In this module, i will be covering these rules and discuss some other reharmonization ideas and technique you can employ to make a song sound jazzy. Away in a manger brethren we have met to worship god rest ye merry gentlemen i am thine o lord i run to christ i surrender all in his time jesus.
All of greg s music is still available on all the normal streaming download services such as pandora, itunes, amazon, and spotify. Whether you write film scores, direct a band or choir, or play solo piano or guitar, you will find simple and innovative techniques to update songs and develop exciting new. With a seemingly infinite palette of chords available to you at every turn, knowing which one to choose can seem like a combination of instinct and good fortune. Reharmonization techniques online course berklee online. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Free sheet music for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, trombone, guitar, piano, bass, percussion. In part 2, well look further at some advanced reharmonization tips for gershwins summertime.
Some reharmonization ideas from greg howlett jeremiah flaga. When you reharmonize a tune, you give the melody new color by changing its underlying harmonics. First things first lets discuss why we do not alter the melody, and instead concern ourselves with only the harmony. Hey rmusictheory, i made a video exploring ideas when it comes to reharmonization of simple melodies.
This clip is from gregs brand new live concert recording. Greg howlett is a christian concert pianist, educator, and recording artist. Before starting the following exercise, it is assumed that you already understand extension. I think that our software can be interesting to someone in this forum. Notice that the leaps in this example take place within the same sonority i. Reharmonization, substitutions, and counterlines 12 preceding \7 with iv instead of ii7 page 2 14 now moving the bass a bit or 16 harmonized counterline using the 12 step approach principle try adding a iivl bass to the last 2 examples. He has a blog dedicated to piano music as well as numerous free lessons on youtube as well as his site. Diatonic chord substitution of the many ways to add color and variety to a composition, harmony can be one of the more elusive.
Listen to it via the audio link and listen while you analyze 2. Online learn to reharmonize jazz standards like a 21 lessons. It is also a complex subject which is why i have written more lessons about harmony than any other topic. Nov 26, 2015 on this page you can read or download reharmonization techniques pdf in pdf format. Reharmonization techniques kindle edition by randy felts. Video extreme jazz reharmonization of pop music self.
Analysis and reharmonization ii with the song moonlight in vermont on blackboard, perform the following analysis tasks. Reharmonization with constant structure chords by paul schmeling there are many approaches to reharmonization, but this one, explored by herbie hancock and bill evans in the 1960s, creates an interesting combination of functional and nonfunctional sounds. For that, musicians work with many concepts, almost all of them we already saw here in the website. Watch greg howlett demonstrate interesting chords and progressions. Reharmonization is the process of composing new chords for an already composed and harmonized melodic line.
Gourmet race jazz reharmonization sheet music for piano. In some ways reharmonization can be confusing, but just like anything else in jazz, you can use a few formulas to get started and immediately enhance tunes that youre working on. For perhaps the simplest and most effective reharms, check out trane tunes like 262 confirmation, fifth house what is this thing, and his arrangements of summertime and lush life. Great, we will see how our final reharmonization is. The 10 levels of reharmonization are done in the key of c while the piano technique section is done in the key of g. He has studied and performed christian music extensively for the past twenty eight years. The jazz theory book, by mark levine sher music co. Nov 06, 20 lead me to calvary reharmonization demo with greg howlett. Arrangers will often reharmonize a song to make the arrangement unique.
This, however, is not simply a matter of just playing whatever you want. Melodic motion may also be added by adding a second voicing to the same chord. It laid the groundwork for tunes with nonfunctional harmony that followed. Reharmonization, and other ways to increase your listening. Hymn reharmonizations page 2 sean jackson organist. Reharmonization is one of those things that beginning jazz piano players often find pretty confusing. Let david hazeltine guide you along the path towards playing great jazz piano, in the style of masters like art tatum, bill evans, oscar peterson, cedar walton, tommy flanagan, barry harris, herbie hancock and red garland. Adding notes to boring chords to make them more interesting. Learning reharmonization is a very exciting way to add new life to your music. Advanced reharmonization is really about trying out a bunch of various possibilities, learning about the relationships between chords and chord progressions, and choosing options that change the original presentation of the same melody. This particular standard contains endless possibilities for reharmonization techniques and is well worth learning as a solo jazz guitar piece.