so much to think about.

Freestyle, no limits, chord progression, sharp, flat, augmented, diminished, mixolidian, etc..there is so much in my brain that wasn't there before. Most of you will not understand anything I'm about to write about. It started last year, I thought that I knew so much about music, just not music theory, then I started to take Jazz combo class. First thing I learned, I knew nothing about music. We first went over the basics, chords. Major, Minor, Diminished and Augmented, the four most common chords. There is a root in every chord, adding a flat or sharp to the 3rd 5th or 7th of a chord is what defines what type of chord your dealing with. 

Next was learning modes, from blues to smooth, mixolidian to pentatonic. Everyday something new pops up. Mr. Nes my teacher, handed out sheet music, we sight read it, after a few bars we stopped. Mr. Nes told me I was playing it wrong. I told him I didn't think I was. Then again I haven't scratched the surface of knowing what music theory is. i was playing it wrong cause I never transposed the music into my key. Another knew aspect of music I've never done before. Playing alto sax, my tone is six steps above the piano. So for every note on the paper I had to play the note six steps above it. 

This was a whole new aspect for me, it forced me to really think what I had to play. Before writing it down later on like I eventually did, it was hard. Worst thing was soloing. In most songs that we play the chords change every bar or so, sometimes in half a bar. Going from the I chord then V chord then jumping to the VI chord, lastly the IV chord sometimes. It was never the same progression either. Every time a chord changes my notes change. Different roots, keys or modes. It’s the most complicated thinking I ever do, because of all the factors I have to think about.