Hiro’s Jazz Theory
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Learning Improvisation
Learning how to improvise: Theory and scales are not the most important elements.
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What is jazz
What is most important thing in jazz music? What makes jazz music so unique? Is it improvisation? Certainly not, because improvisation
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Hiro’s Jazz Theory Book Download
Click to download “Hiro’s Jazz Theory” book
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What is jazz theory for?
Jazz music theory certainly isn’t the most important thing to play jazz music. Most of the times it even doesn’t help playing since you don’t have enough time to think theory when you are sight reading the chart on stage.
Flute Practice Tips
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How To Hold Flute
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Breath Training Game
This is a game I used to play for myself every day. Download the attached image. Set your metronome to
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Practicing difficult passages
Keep in mind, you want to play at 70% of what you have. If you play at 100%, it will
Instruments
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NuRAD (Profondo Rosso)
Berglund NuRAD with EWI4000s Roller assembly
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David Chu Head Joints
David Chu Website
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Christensen Wood Flute (c.a. 1920)
Chrostensen Wood Fute info from “THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS OF THE BOEHM FLUTE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1845-1945:
A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BOEHM FLUTEMAKERS VOLUME I” BY Susan Marie Beagle Berdahl -
Arista Flute
Body Serial Number: 618 Head Joint Serial Number: 850 All handmade by Juan Arista Handmade tube B-Foot Offset G Spit E
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Wm. S. Haynes Flute (1997)
Serial Number 50056 Custom Head Joint by John Fugetta at Wm. S. Haynes
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Emerson Boston Legacy Grenadilla Piccolo
Serial Number 1321
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Akai EWI 4000s
Akai EWI 4000s with custom silver skin
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EWI3020/EWI3020m
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Muramatsu STRC (1978)
Model: STRC (DS) Serial Number: 20597 C-Foot Inline French
Mac Tips
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My Mac History
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Click Sample and Creating Click Track in Digital Performer
Download the Click sample Save this folder to where you will not move or delete such as ~/Home/Music/ or Digital
Discography
Live Equipment
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SD System LCM70 Custom Microphone
Base modified with hair clip to easily switch between flute, piccolo and alto flute
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Metric Halo ULN-2 w/3d Jensen Transformer Modification
Metric Halo ULN-2 w/3d Jensen Transformer Modification Custom-made ULN-2 Jensen Mod by Joe Buchalter, one of the Metric Halo founders
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Keith McMillen Instruments SoftStep 2
Go to manufacture →
Tools
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Wave Length Calculator
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MIDI Continuous Controller Finder
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Videos
"Blue Red" featuring Chris Cheek by Hiro Honshuku and A-NO-NE Big Band
Recorded on 1990-04-19 at Williams Hall, Boston, MA
