Re: Chord Function?

kuNOrtSPAMshapTHANKiro@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>No one's pointing a finger at you or anyone.  However, the number of
sighted 
>musicians with an ear on the level of Orlando's is probably very small.

I don't know about that; there are some sighted dudes who could go head 
to head in a transcription throwdown with me.

>I had to struggle a lot with a tin ear.  Like a lot of budding jazz 
>guitarists of the late 20th Century, I spent too much time on theory when
I 
>should have been listening to music and copying it.

I think the key for me has been the slow process of recognizing 
individual sonorities and putting them together into larger chunks of 
movements; that's the only way I've been able to make sense of Olivier 
Messiaen or Wayne Shorter by ear. I first looped single chords until I 
could recognize chord types solely by sonic color. Then, I learned to 
map out progressions of recognizable chords. In the case of Messiaen's 
modes of limited transposition, his chord progressions tend to be 
ascending or descending in parallel, taking each pitch through the mode 
rather than using voice leading. Wayne's harmonic nut has been much more 
difficult to crack because, although his progressions tend to use 
recognizable sonorities, the lack of tonal functionality still throws me 
when trying to determine chords in a series.

Orlando