Monthly Archives: May 2015

Affirmative Action for the Piano

Posted on May 25, 2015 by jazzpanflute

One takeaway from my recent experience in a Montessori school was the evident glee with which the children attacked a pentatonic balafon brought in by one of the teachers, contrasting with their apparent lack of interest in the expensive chromatic … Continue reading →

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Adding colour to the diminished scale

Posted on May 11, 2015 by jazzpanflute

It is easy to slip into the idea, from studying harmony textbooks, that the only way to form scale-tone chords is to make stacks building upward from each note of the scale, skipping every other note. Then depending on how … Continue reading →

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