Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Draft Thesis for Essay Four.

         


             What do you do with people who have no reason in your life Jill Scott's quote " If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life".

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Essay- Editing Run-Ons



 Error: While mixing it with pitch blends and finding where to place mutes and have solo comping. I find myself using my mnemonic device MNMC.




FIx: While mixing it with pitch blends and finding where to place mutes and have solo comping, but  I find myself using my mnemonic device MNMC.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Nine Sentence Homework

  1. As I am learning to become a music composer, structure and preciseness has been a big part of music composing.
  2. When Keatie went to listen to her music, her brother broke the radio.
  3. Latanya is a supporting, caring, passionate mother.
  4. Keatie Jones, who is related  to Bishop Jones, was excited to find out that she would soon have a niece.
  5. Willie Smith greatest song, Fingerbuster gave him the nickname of The Lion.
  6. Ragtime, a fast from of jazz, often confused with stride piano style.
  7. The solo trumpet style being heard for the first time, after Earl Hines created My Monday Date.
  8. Unlike Art Tatum, Jelly Roll Morton couldn't play 370 bpm.
  9. Yes, Art Tatum is a Virtuoso solo piano player.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Conclusion

   Being able to identify structure and precision in jazz is a difficult process, but when using M.N.M.C you become better at understanding certain notes, beats, knowing where to put instrument solos and backup support. Having precision in one’s song along with structure will pave way for a better song. A song with nice flow of rhythm that

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Essay Intro


                                                                                                                                                Marquiete Jones

                                                                                                                                                English Essay 1

                                                                                                                                                ‎2/‎6/‎2014

 

                Henri Matisse once said "there are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience", Henri Matisse is known for his great art work but mostly for the structure and preciseness of his art work. As I am learning to become a music composer, structure and preciseness has been a big part of music composing. I find it to be very hard to put music together in a jazz form of using flat notes in third, fifth, and seventh flat note from. While mixing it with pitch blends and finding where to place mutes and have solo comping. I find myself using my mnemonic device M.N.M.C. It stands for melody, notes, mutes, and comping. I use M.N.M.C while listening, writing, and taking note to jazz music. It helps me to remember when and where to look for certain instruments or chord progressions. All together M.N.M.C helps a learning music composer to find the structure and preciseness of a song that they are putting together or looking over.

 

            M.N.M.C is a useful mnemonic device because it provides support to a musician who has trouble writing and reading music. M.N.M.C seems like it should be used by professionals.  M.N.M.C would strength one’s ability to make any music not just Jazz. Although there are different genres of music.  

 

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Quote for Essay

"There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience."-Henri Matisse

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Precious Gift

"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love we will bloom like flowers."