Music Theory :
This week, we learned about the beginning / history of jazz through handouts that were given by our teacher and also his explanations in class. I learned that jazz was first introduced in New Orleans, America by the African-American people. They developed this music genre with inspiration from spiritual songs. The musicians played the same instruments played during the classical music era, but in unique ways. In jazz music, improvisation is a really important thing because the musicians need to know how to improvise in playing jazz songs. We also heard some samples of jazz songs from youtube in class. I think, I learned a lot of new things about jazz which I wasn't familiar with from the music lesson this week.
Music Instrument class :
During the instrument class time, we didn't actually have music instrument class. That is because we wathed our teachers' performance on one of the popular jazz songs titled "Autumn Leaves". From that performance, I learned that improvisation is really important in jazz music and to be able to improvise in playing jazz music, we have to first master the music instrument.
This week, we learned about the beginning / history of jazz through handouts that were given by our teacher and also his explanations in class. I learned that jazz was first introduced in New Orleans, America by the African-American people. They developed this music genre with inspiration from spiritual songs. The musicians played the same instruments played during the classical music era, but in unique ways. In jazz music, improvisation is a really important thing because the musicians need to know how to improvise in playing jazz songs. We also heard some samples of jazz songs from youtube in class. I think, I learned a lot of new things about jazz which I wasn't familiar with from the music lesson this week.
Music Instrument class :
During the instrument class time, we didn't actually have music instrument class. That is because we wathed our teachers' performance on one of the popular jazz songs titled "Autumn Leaves". From that performance, I learned that improvisation is really important in jazz music and to be able to improvise in playing jazz music, we have to first master the music instrument.
