Chord & Sax Clinic :: Special Events at Bird

Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 1pm
NOTE: time change

Complete with charts, live performance and handouts, Bird instructor Tony Peebles explains how to understand, write out and perform every chord symbol you'll ever see in jazz, rock or R&B sheet music. With the simple tools you'll gain from this workshop, you'll be able to play the chords of any song, and know the good notes to play when improvising.

You'll learn how to read chord symbols or "changes" and build chords of all types, based on the four different types of triads: Major, Minor, Augmented and Diminished. You'll also learn how to write and identify key signatures, building triads, adding "7ths" and "chord extensions": 9ths, 11ths and 13ths, and "alterations" to make chords much more interesting and beautiful.