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Topic: Charlie Banacos Method? |
Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Posted 15 Feb 2006 1:45 pm |
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| This came from the modal discussion, and I thought it would make a good topic. Can someone (Mike) talk more about this system? I'm unfamiliar with it. |
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Brad Bechtel
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Posted 15 Feb 2006 1:52 pm
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Bill, do a search for "Charlie Banacos Method" and you'll find many different sites referring to and discussing this method. Probably the best place to start is http://www.charliebanacos.com/ though.
I'm moving this to Music since it really doesn't apply to this area of the forum.
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[This message was edited by Brad Bechtel on 15 February 2006 at 01:54 PM.] |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 15 Feb 2006 2:13 pm
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| I studied piano with him for a few months in the early 70's. I am not aware of his 'method' and I'm curious what it's about, in a nutshell. |
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 15 Feb 2006 2:30 pm
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| Having just browsed thru the mode thread I realize that whatever method we are talking about, any nutshell that could hold it would have encased a nut that could feed a family 12 for the better part of their lives, assuming they didn't have a nut allergy. I'll have to do my own research to answer my question. |
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Bill McCloskey
From:
Nanuet, NY
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Posted 15 Feb 2006 3:21 pm
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| I did a web search and came up empty on anything describing a method. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 15 Feb 2006 3:55 pm
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Charlie Banacos supposedly tailors his studies to the individual's needs and doesn't have a specific method, although many who study with him learn a lot of the same stuff. I've heard of him having all kinds of simple keys to unlocking improvisational mysteries, such as Coltrane changes. He offers correspondence lessons and there are no published materials of his. Some of the things I've heard about remind me of Slonimsky's "Thesaurus..."
What I learned was basically series of exercises designed to help you hear any note in relation to a tonal center, and through the use of a series of embellishments of various configurations on chord tones, hear and identify chord tones in the midst of chromaticism.
Better yet, these exercises were done very slowly up and down one string, which comes in handy today on steel. That's as far as we got, though, unfortunately.
[This message was edited by Mike Neer on 15 February 2006 at 03:57 PM.] [This message was edited by Mike Neer on 15 February 2006 at 04:03 PM.] |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 16 Feb 2006 7:03 am
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I think I mistakenly implied that Charlie has a dogmatic approach, which he does not, although I think his ear training stuff is something he does with a lot of students. That is what I got second hand from Mike Stern. But he does a lot with rearranging information and helping a student see things differently than before. For instance, I've heard of exercises involving the superimposition of unlikely triads over each other--simple stuff that one wouldn't think of to use on their own.
Come to think of it, I may seek correspondence lessons myself from him. |
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