About Me...
Perhaps I'm best known as a jazz and showtune pianist, but anyone who has been a part of the audience at my Great American Songbook concerts knows that ukulele has always been a delightful part of the act.
A jazz educator and multi instrumentalist I've always striven to bring the secrets of the jazz sound to not only piano students, but to ukulele and guitar players as well via my user-friendly jazz chord method books and workshops.
Highlights from my musical career include working on Hollywood movie scores with such luminaries as Quincy Jones, Nelson Riddle, and John Williams. I was a jingle writer with over 100 on air spots, a college music teacher, cruise ship pianist, jazz vocal coach and toured western Europe for eight years as a piano bar pianist. For the the past sixteen years, I've exclusively been entertaining audiences with my one man American Composer series of concerts on hundreds of stages all across America. But lately the ukulele has been capturing most of my attention with writing books and teaching.
Link to my piano entertainer site: www.glenrosejazz.com
About my production tools.
I have two cameras that I use depending on my needs.
I use my Panasonic PV GS320
When I want to pan in for close-ups. I sit about 3 feet from the camera which is mounted on a tripod and use the remote to pan in and out. The view finder reverses so I can see myself in the camera while shooting. I then dump to a simple editing program and get it ready for upload to YouTube.
Click here for more info on the Panasonic PV GS320
My other camera is my Apple Ipod Touch G4. It’s very portable and ultra easy to use. It has a reversible view finder mode so I can see myself while shooting. I use a Versihold Personal Media Stand to mount it to my tripod. Without this very helpful little adaptor you’ll have a hard time getting your ipod or iphone to mount on a tripod. It has other handy uses as well.
Click here for more information on Versihold Personal Media Stand.
I place the tripod about 2 feet from where I’m sitting. It’s easy to start and stop from this position. You can actually upload directly to YouTube from the iPod Touch but I like to edit first so I put it in my computers editing program first.
The iPod Touch also has a wonderful app for practicing called,”irealbook.” It has on screen digital pages of the Real Book, a very popular fake book musicians all over the world use. The App has 900 standards in it. You can adjust tempos and keys to suit you. Play it over speakers and it’s like having a band to practice with when you play your ukulele.
Click here for more information on the iPod Touch
Recommended Fake Books: If you like playing standards it’s a good idea to get a good fake book. These ones listed below have good chord changes and will make it much easier to spot jazz patterns so it will make your learning and playing much easier. Most “fake books” on the market are not so good. Here’s a short list of good ones to choose from:
The Real Book series by
Hal Leonard.
The Standards Real Book by
Chuck Sher
Any jazz study book by
Jamie Aerbersold
Jazzy Ukulele Workshops
These workshops provide a well organized and useful pathway for learning to play jazz standards in a simple, understandable way that makes use of the same methodology used by professional jazz players. Learning the correct jazz chords and jazz patterns are the key to successful playing.
February 21, 2010, Phoenix, Az.,Jazzy Ukulele Workshop
February 21, 2010, Tucson, Az.,Jazzy Ukulele Workshop, 17th Street Music
March 7, 2010, San Diego, Ca., Jazzy Ukulele Workshop, Giagoletti Music
March 27, 2010, Portland, Or., Jazzy Ukulele Workshop I, Portland ukulele Club
April 3, 2010, Seattle Wa., March 7, San Diego, Ca., Jazzy Ukulele Workshop, Giagoletti Music Dusty Strings Music
May 23, 2010, Berkeley, Ca., Jazzy Ukulele Workshop I, Berkeley Ukulele Club
June 13, Berkeley, Ca., Jazzy Ukulele Workshop II, Berkeley Ukulele Club
August 19, 2010 Santa Cruz, Ca., Jazz Blues Workshop, Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz
August 21, 2010 Sacramento, CA - Jazzy Ukulele Workshop, Northridge Music
