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		<title>New Jazz Blog</title>
		<link>http://craigbuhler.com/2008/05/29/new-jazz-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 15:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a new resource for jazz fans.  Check out http://jazzbreak2.blogspot.com:80/
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		<title>OVERCOMING FLAPPY FINGERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ From a quick viewing of YouTube video footage, it appears that Coltrane&#8217;s fingers may move further from the keys than do Bird&#8217;s.  Do you agree?
 This is hard to understand, since Trane may actually play faster than Bird(?)
Regardless, my own playing has always suffered from &#8220;flappy fingers,&#8221; which both slow us down and destroy the smooth, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigbuhler.com&blog=1114715&post=235&subd=cbjazz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Play on regardless: Music is therapy</title>
		<link>http://craigbuhler.com/2008/03/20/play-on-regardless-music-is-therapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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WHY should real musicians &#8211; the ones who can actually play their instruments &#8211; have all the fun?
AND THE BAND PLAYED BADLY
By ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
Some years ago, a group of frustrated people in Scotland decided that the pleasure of playing in an orchestra should not be limited to those who are good enough to do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigbuhler.com&blog=1114715&post=234&subd=cbjazz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music, Brain Function, and Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Music Makes You Smarter.
&#8220;Contrary to the old simplistic notion that art and music are processed in the right hemisphere of our brains, with language and mathematics in the left, recent findings from my laboratory and those of my colleagues are showing us that music is distributed throughout the brain.  Through studies of people with brain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigbuhler.com&blog=1114715&post=230&subd=cbjazz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz Musicians as Role Models</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible for an older jazz musician to influence younger players in a constructive way? 
As I walked onto the stage of the sparsely populated 7,000 seat amphitheater, it hit me that Honk is now the third attraction in what was once the geographic epicenter of our fan base. Within seconds, we began filling the warm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigbuhler.com&blog=1114715&post=229&subd=cbjazz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Parker Teaches Focus</title>
		<link>http://craigbuhler.com/2007/09/29/charlie-parker-teaches-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you tried reading the charts in the Charlie Parker Omnibook?  I find that some of them require a level of focused attention that is quite difficult to maintain over a 3-hour practice session.

Right now, I am working on the tune &#8220;Cosmic Rays&#8221; on tenor.  This one really calls for attentiveness.  How do you acquire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigbuhler.com&blog=1114715&post=228&subd=cbjazz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cool uses for the Charlie Parker Omni Book</title>
		<link>http://craigbuhler.com/2007/09/23/cool-uses-for-the-charlie-parker-omni-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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There are so many wonderful phrases that Bird created. When one phrase in particular captures my imagination, i try learning it in all 12 keys.
For example, the measure with the quintuplet on staff 15 of &#8220;Celerity.&#8221; This phrase so beautifully captures the spirit of the II-V progression, that i could not help trying it in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigbuhler.com&blog=1114715&post=226&subd=cbjazz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modulation</title>
		<link>http://craigbuhler.com/2007/09/06/modulation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever grow attached to a key and find yourself resisting modulation into a new key?

I have spent the past several hours working on exercise #244, (page 142) from Patterns For Jazz by Jerry Coker et. al.
I started by putting the exercise into Band in a Box in all 12 minor keys.  (This track [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigbuhler.com&blog=1114715&post=221&subd=cbjazz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Tone Control and Playing in Tune</title>
		<link>http://craigbuhler.com/2007/08/14/on-tone-control-and-playing-in-tune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by noted woodwind artist &#38; teacher Signe Crawford for the &#8220;Keys to Music&#8221; collection of jazz etudes.
Think of tone as your material for creating music.
If you can create a good tone, good pitches will follow.
If you can create a good pitch, a good tone will follow.

POSTURE: Sit up straight. Scoot forward in your chair, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigbuhler.com&blog=1114715&post=211&subd=cbjazz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Learn to Play by Ear?</title>
		<link>http://craigbuhler.com/2007/07/05/can-you-learn-to-play-by-ear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Buhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[YES YOU CAN!     How do i know?  Because I have taught over 100 musicians to do it over the past 7 years.  These are musicians of all ages and levels of ability on various instruments, and you can be one of them.

Playing by ear is a thrilling experience.  With this skill, your instrument can reproduce any song [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigbuhler.com&blog=1114715&post=197&subd=cbjazz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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