Again, you deliver an excellent lecture because you dive deeper into the material, i.e., basso continuo, figured bass etc.. I am an advanced musician and I find your lectures very informative. Bye the way, I studied with a very well known jazz pianist who studied with John Mehegan (father of the jazz series for jazz pianists often referred to as the Jazz Bible), a famous Juilliard jazz professor. I learned the Mehegan figured bass on my own using his books, his system uses roman numerals with alterations and he is very determined to make it the standard in jazz as it is not key dependent. That is, one chart can be used by all for any key because the roman numerals, I, IV, V, VI, etc. are the same relationship for any key and therefore we don't find key specific chords like CM7 or FM7 or G7 etc.. an FM7 would simply be a IV chord as it is in C major but it would also be a CM7 in G major so we are able to dispense with chords letters and use universal numbers. This was Mehegan's big mission, to make this figured bass the standard nomenclature for jazz professionals. When I first met the teacher who studied with Mehegan, I mentioned the roman numeral system which I had worked very hard to acquire in my head and hands (a year of work) as a keyboard player. He replied, forget that stuff, no will understand what you are talking about, stick with letters.
Fascinating. Thanks.
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Again, you deliver an excellent lecture because you dive deeper into the material, i.e., basso continuo, figured bass etc.. I am an advanced musician and I find your lectures very informative. Bye the way, I studied with a very well known jazz pianist who studied with John Mehegan (father of the jazz series for jazz pianists often referred to as the Jazz Bible), a famous Juilliard jazz professor. I learned the Mehegan figured bass on my own using his books, his system uses roman numerals with alterations and he is very determined to make it the standard in jazz as it is not key dependent. That is, one chart can be used by all for any key because the roman numerals, I, IV, V, VI, etc. are the same relationship for any key and therefore we don't find key specific chords like CM7 or FM7 or G7 etc.. an FM7 would simply be a IV chord as it is in C major but it would also be a CM7 in G major so we are able to dispense with chords letters and use universal numbers. This was Mehegan's big mission, to make this figured bass the standard nomenclature for jazz professionals. When I first met the teacher who studied with Mehegan, I mentioned the roman numeral system which I had worked very hard to acquire in my head and hands (a year of work) as a keyboard player. He replied, forget that stuff, no will understand what you are talking about, stick with letters.
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Great! Very clear.
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